“Mary Poppins Returns” transports audiences back to 1930s London.
The beloved nanny at the center of the original 1964 hit film will return, this time played by Emily Blunt.
But Mary’s original companion, Bert, a chimney sweep played by Dick Van Dyke, has been replaced by Jack, a lamplighter played by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Some fans of the original might be disappointed to see Bert cede screen time to Jack. But as a historian of Victorian science, I was delighted to see a bygone industrial technology – the gas lamp – take center stage.
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