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Tony Award nominees Kerry Butler Disaster, Xanadu, the upcoming Mean Girls, Charl Brown Motown, John Ellison Conlee The Full Monty, Murder Ballad, and Stephanie D'Abruzzo Avenue Q, I Love You Because will head a special reading presentation of the new musical Seeing Red, by Emmy Award winner Joey Mazzarino and award-winning composer Aron Accurso on Thursday, January 25 in New York City at 11am and 3pm. Seeing Red takes a look at immigration through a fairy tale lens. In fact, it's about all the things that divide us as humans Religion, borders, race. It's the story of Little Red Riding Hood, now a grown woman who still spends her days delivering baskets full of goodies through her company Red Ex. She wishes she could change her fate but in Everafteropolis, once your story is written, it's written. When Red meets the Man From Nantucket, her life is suddenly turned upside down.

Julie Andrews has full confidence in Emily Blunt's ability to do justice to the role of Mary Poppins.

While Dick Van Dyke announced he will be returning for the sequel, Andrews tells Et's Leanne Aguilera that she doesn't think she'll be a part of it, but she is thrilled to be able to pass the torch to the Golden Globe-winning actress.

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"Emily Blunt is going to play Mary Poppins and I am a great fan," Andrews says. "I think she is terrific and a perfect pick."

Disney's upcoming sequel to the classic 1964 film is set in Depression-era London, where a grown-up Jane and Michael Banks are visited by Mary Poppins after their family suffers a personal loss. Poppins uses her magical skills to help Jane, Michael and Michael's three children rediscover the joy missing in their lives.

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Who knew your new favorite song would come from a kids show? Although when it's Julie Andrews' new Netflix series Julie's Greenroom and Grammy and Tony nominee Sara Bareilles it should be a safe bet.  In the above exclusive preview, Bareilles, Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) and the Greenroom students all perform on heck of a catchy song about, well, performing, for Miss Julie (Andrews). "'Cause we've all got different voices/We move to different beats/We each have our own story, still we sing in harmony/We've all got different voices/Together they are strong and soon the world will sing along," Bareilles and the Greenies sing. Good luck getting that song out of your head for...

Julie Andrews is coming to Netflix with Julie's Greenroom, a children's show, and she's got one goal in mind: To educate the next generation about the arts. "There's nothing like the joy of the arts and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way," Andrews told E! News during a recent interview. And she's not doing it alone. Along for the ride are a slew of guest stars like Alec Baldwin, Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel and Carol Burnett. Plus, Andrews has her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton at her side. The two created the show and wrote episodes together. "My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there...

With winter finally beginning to thaw and temperatures climbing back into clemency, it may be tempting to venture back into the outdoors and feel the sun on your skin. Resist this urge, for it is nothing more than a trap designed to distract you from all the important viewing you've got to do this month. Netflix unveils a Sundance-approved sci-fi thought experiment, a marvelous new children's program and their latest co-production with the Marvel universe. Meanwhile, Amazon Prime has laid claim to a couple under-the-radar standouts from last year, and...

Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” is getting a film adaptation from The Jim Henson Company. The 2003 novel is amongst the 46 books of the author’s “Discworld” series — a series set on a literal disc world that rests on top of four giant elephants who stand on the shell of a giant turtle. Pratchett passed away last year.

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The writer’s company Narrativia, which was created to monitor the rights of his books, will work with The Jim Henson Company in bringing the story to the big screen. Pratchett’s daughter Rhianna, who took over the company after his passing, will pen the script. She has worked as a video game writer on projects such as 2013’s “The Tomb Raider” and its 2015 follow-up “Rise of the Tomb Raider,” which won WGA’s video game writing award.