Anthony Drewe

In 2001, Anthony Drewe directed an extensively reworked version at Boston’s North Shore Music Theatre in the USA, with designs by Peter McKintosh and choreography by Stephen Mear.

In 2001, it was performed at the Royal Festival Hall, starring John Thaw, Jenna Russell, Joe MacFadden and Sheila Hancock accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The performance also boasted a first in that three real-life siblings, Laura Michelle Kelly and her brothers Jorim and Nathan played Wendy, Michael and John.

In the summer of 2011, it made its American premiere at the Tri-County Performing Arts Center in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, recently renamed Steel River Playhouse.

[needs update] In October 2015 a concert version directed by Jonathan Butterell was performed at London's Adelphi Theatre with Bradley Walsh as Hook, Ray Quinn as Peter Pan, Sheila Hancock as The Storyteller and Jenna Russell as Mrs Darling.

Mary Poppins opened at the Prince Edward Theatre in December 2004 where it had a hugely successful 3-year run before embarking on a UK national tour in 2008.

[2] Betty Blue Eyes opened at the Novello Theatre in April 2011 produced by Cameron Mackintosh, starring Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith.

It premiered for 70 sell-out performances at the DBS Arts Centre in Singapore in March 2012 (in English), and returned for a further four week run at the same venue in July 2013 (in Mandarin).

[4] A studio cast recording featuring Gareth Gates, Alison Jiear, Clive Rowe, Amy Lennox and Lewis Barnshaw was released in 2012.

A studio cast recording featuring David Bedella, James Gillan, Leanne Jones, Amy Lennox and Michael Xavier was released in 2015.

Travels with My Aunt, based on the novel by Graham Greene, premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in April 2016 Following the success of Mary Poppins, Stiles and Drewe were reunited with producer Cameron Mackintosh and book writer Julian Fellowes to create a new musical version of Half a Sixpence based on the original musical, using the original songs by David Heneker.

Commissioned by producer Jamie Hendry in 2011, The Wind in the Willows, a musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel, opens at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in October 2016 before heading to The Lowry in Salford and London's West End.

The musical, based on the novel "Becoming Nancy" by Terry Ronald and with a book by Elliot Davis, will debut in 2019 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta from Sept. 5 to Oct. 6, directed by Jerry Mitchell.

[8] Based on the 1949 novel Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kästner (also known as the basis for Disney's The Parent Trap), Identical will premiere at the Nottingham Playhouse and Theatre Royal, Bath in summer 2020 with a book by Stuart Paterson and will be directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.