There are plays that become movies and movies that become plays. One of the latter works has become the biggest undertaking in the long history of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Jack W. Hill writes in Thursday's Arkansas Weekend section.
Mary Poppins — the 1964 Disney film known for its airborne lead character and its songs “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Feed the Birds” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” — will have its Rep premiere Friday night.