Spokane Children’s Theatre thinks outside the box for its 78th season finale: Mary Poppins

Photo courtesy of Tanya Brownlee

Get ready for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious time with Spokane Children’s Theatre.

When someone mentions the musical Mary Poppins, your next thought probably isn’t “experimental.”

Not so with Michael Barfield.

After the Spokane Children’s Theatre’s executive director, Tanya Brownlee, tapped him to lead the theater’s production of the musical, which closes the organization’s 78th season, he found himself contemplating exactly what Mary Poppins — and its audience — typically demands.

All kinds of fantastical things take place in this story about a wise

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