Coming in at the tail end of 2018's "Mary Poppins Returns," the balloon lady, a fixture in P.L. Travers' series of children's novels featuring the titular character, sends the Banks family up, up and away on a physical and metaphorical adventure to leave the past behind. Challenging and satisfying, this dense and jovial arrangement from Roger Emerson deftly balances the source material with buoyant charm!
