Laura Top of the Poppins ; a Spoonful of Sugar? Not My Mary, Says the Girl Who has Really Taken Off As the Eccentric Victorian Nanny with a Knack for Tough Love

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LAURA MICHELLE KELLY is drawing flowers on the whiteboard in the room where I meet her at Sadler's Wells. "I wanted to make the room look prettier," she declares sunnily.

'"It was a bit boring before." So far, so Mary Poppins, but it would be a mistake to dismiss Kelly as a sweet young thing. You don't end up in leading roles in six major West End productions and one on Broadway by the age of 23 without the kind of determination that would make a raging bull think twice before challenging you to a fight. Nor do you land the title role in the hottest musical to be created for the London stage in years, after turning down Andrew Lloyd Webber's offer for you to sing the lead in The Woman In White. She seems more excited than nervous at the prospect of adopting the shoes of Julie Andrews's Mary Poppins.

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Laura Top of the Poppins ; a Spoonful of Sugar? Not My Mary, Says the Girl Who has Really Taken Off As the Eccentric Victorian Nanny with a Knack for Tough Love

Kelly has every right to be confident: the London run has already taken well over Pounds 10 million in advance bookings. She talks about the...

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