For many reasons, Bedknobs and Broomsticks has been compared to Mary Poppins, a Disney musical made seven years previously, as both involve magical women who sing and dance and have their quirks ...

“Where did all the happy endings go? Where can all the good times be?” The musical finally saw the light of day over 25 years after Walt Disney first purchased the movie rights to Norton’s ...

“Substitutiary locomotion”, however, might be another word for theatrical magic, which Candice Edmunds and Jamie Harrison’s production of Bedknobs ... wizardry: broomsticks dance and ...

"I have been doing this since the 1940s, and I have been out of work one week in my whole life," says Donald McKayle, the African-American choreographer named by the Dance Heritage Coalition as ...

20-Nov. 14: “Nell Gwynn, the North American premiere of Jessica Swayle’s music and dance-filled play directed by Christopher Luscombe; Courtyard Theater Oct. 23-Nov. 24: The Big in Belgium ...

But it was Angela Lansbury’s role as a single, sassy, Nazi-fighting, self-made witch in Disney’s 1971 film Bedknobs and Broomsticks that captured my imagination as a child. Miss Eglantine ...

Oscar-winning special effects and animation sequences by Ward Kimball make this musical fantasy a perennial favorite. The story tells of the triumph of a rookie witch and some foster children who ...

Bedknobs and Broomsticks has a special place in my heart ever since my late dad took me to see Angela Lansbury's Disney classic at my local Odeon cinema in south London in 1972. I was but four ...