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Breaking Baz: Emma Thompson’s Child-Minding Witch ‘Nanny McPhee’ Stage Musical Aims For London’s West End In 2026
Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee' musical theater adaptation is aiming for a 2026 West End debut.
EXCLUSIVE: The Emma Thompson-penned musical adaptation of fantasy movie Nanny McPhee, about a witch who possesses magical powers wielded through her walking stick, is being primed to hit London’s West End in 2026, Deadline can reveal. My sources, who declined to be quoted on the record, stressed that there had been “no casting conversations of any kind,” adding, “There’s no point talking to anyone until we have booked a theater and confirmed dates.” The stern-looking but soft-hearted nanny has a habit of startling people by dropping in unheralded, uttering: “I did knock.” A handful of illusions have been developed for the stage production, including one that apparently involves the “I did knock” trick.
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