WITH Christmas approaching, Wales Millennium Centre will welcome the multi-award winning musical Mary Poppins from December 14 to January 14, 2017.

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins will make its final stop of the UK and Ireland tour in Cardiff.

The story of the world’s favourite nanny arriving on Cherry Tree Lane has been brought to the stage with choreography, effects and unforgettable songs. The stage version of Mary Poppins is adapted from the stories by PL Travers and the Walt Disney film, starring Zizi Strallen as Mary Poppins and Matt Lee as Bert.

Zizi Strallen most recently starred as Lana in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man. Her previous West End credits include Cats; the multi award-winning Merrily We Roll Along; Rock of Ages; Dirty Dancing; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at Sadler’s Wells. She has also appeared in The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre and as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray at Leicester Curve.

Matt Lee, one of Australia’s premier “song and dance men”, played the role of Bert in Mary Poppins in the successful Australian production of the show, his portrayal winning him the Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

His other theatre credits in Australia include Miss Saigon, The Witches of Eastwick, Rent, Grease and The Boy from Oz. Matt was also a permanent member of the judging panel for Australia’s So You Think You Can Dance.

The stage production of Mary Poppins is co-created by Cameron Mackintosh and has a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. It has a timeless score by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman including the songs Jolly Holiday, Step in Time, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Feed the Birds with new songs and additional music and lyrics by the Olivier award-winning British team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The producer for Disney Theatrical Productions is Thomas Schumacher.

The Olivier and Tony Award winning stage production of Mary Poppins originally opened in the West End in 2004 and ran for three years and more than 1,250 performances. The Broadway production opened in 2006 and ran for more than six years.

The show has subsequently enjoyed great success in Holland, Mexico and Vienna where it is in its second record breaking year. Mary Poppins has toured Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. and the UK and has been seen by more than 11 million people worldwide.

Ticket prices range from £24 to £59.

For more information visit wmc.org.uk or call 029 2063 6464.