“I wish I knew a better way of handling the magic,” she giggles. The lace gets stuck in the wires and a glove flew off one night with the umbrella.” Blackman says with a laugh that one of her biggest lessons from her last brush with Poppins was very specific: “Lace gloves are really bad for umbrella opening. “I hope I continue to grow in the character, keep the good things, but continue to find new things with my new family of ‘Poppins,’” she says. It’s this new version that comes to the Elmsford dinner theater, under the direction and choreography of Richard Stafford.īlackman says there are things to forget as she begins rehearsal with a whole new cast - such as the way her last show was staged and choreographed - but things she’ll need to remember. The 1964 musical - with music and lyrics by Richard and Robert Sherman - was reimagined for Broadway in 2006 with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and a book by Julian Fellowes, of “Downton Abbey” fame. Blackman, a California native, is no stranger to WBT audiences, having played the wicked Vivienne in “Legally Blonde” and the frustrated Claudia in “Nine.” The star of Westchester Broadway Theatre’s new production, “Mary Poppins,” (running May 8 to July 27) played the practically perfect nanny in Maine last summer, in the musical’s East Coast regional premiere.

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