Disney cast Dick Van Dyke in the key supporting role of Bert, while Banks children were played by Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber.

In notable differences from the original novels, the film does not include the characters John, Barbara, or Annabel Banks, and has Mary Poppins herself characterised as noticeably kinder.

Emily Blunt stars as Mary Poppins,[2] alongside Lin-Manuel Miranda in the role of Jack,[3] a similar character to Dick Van Dyke's "Bert" from the first film.

[7] In 1983, the story was adapted by the Soviet Union's Mosfilm studios into the Russian-language TV musical film Mary Poppins, Goodbye, starring Natalya Andreychenko (acting) and Tatyana Voronina (singing) as Mary Poppins, Albert Filozov as George Banks, and Oleg Tabakov as Miss Andrew.

The production then moved to the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End on 15 December 2004, where it ran for three years before closing in January 2008.

The show transferred to a UK national tour, and a number of international versions were staged, including a long Broadway run in New York City.

On 31 May 2010 BBC Radio 7 broadcast a one-hour dramatisation combining several of the adventures into one drama, starring Juliet Stevenson as Mary Poppins.

[15] In a sequence called "Second to the right and straight on till morning", over thirty Mary Poppins descended with umbrellas to fight and defeat the villains Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, and Lord Voldemort, who were haunting children's dreams.

[16] The silhouette of Mary Poppins with an umbrella was used on the cover of the special issue of the journal Friction, dedicated to the 6th World Tribology Congress in Beijing.