Last month, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it would break tradition by not having all the songs nominated for Best Original Song performed during the show.

Only “Shallow” from A Star Is Born and “All the Stars” from Black Panther would receive performance honors, meaning “I’ll Fight” from RBG, “The Places Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns, and “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs would not get their chances to shine.

Not all were pleased by the decision, including Mary Poppins Returns star, Lin-Manuel Miranda who labelled the decision “truly disappointing.”

The decision was reversed by The Academy a few days later, who also teased that a “surprise special guest” would be performing the song from the Mary Poppins sequel…

The special guest in question has now been revealed as Bette Midler!

The “Wind Beneath My Wings” singer is no stranger to the Oscars stage, having performed that very song during the In Memorium segment of the 2014 telecast.

Bette will perform “The Place Where Lost Things Go” with composer Marc Shaiman on February 24th.

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With the release of Mary Poppins Returns just mere weeks away, Disney has now released a song from the film which is just poor delight.

Entitled Trip a Little Light Fantastic, that’s exactly what Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays Jack, does as he encourages the children in the film to dance away their fears.

Referencing the gas lamplighters called Leeries (of which he is a part), the Hamilton star sings, “If a spark can start inside your heart, then you can always find a way / So when life is getting dreary, just pretend that you’re a Leery as you trip a little fantastic with me.”

We’ll get to see how the song fits in when Miss Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to help now-adult siblings Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) after a family tragedy.

Mary Poppins Returns hits screens on the 19th of December.

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The story takes place 25 years after Julie Andrews floated into London with her umbrella to share some of her magic with the Banks family.

And now that young Jane and Michael (played by Emily Mortimer and Ben Winshaw, respectively) are all grown up and have experienced a tragedy, Mary has returned to make sure they take a spoonful of sugar and are alright.

Understandably, Julie would not be reprising her role as the lovable nanny for which she won an Academy Award in 1964.

Instead, Miss Poppins is being delightfully portrayed by another English darling, Emily Blunt.

The rest of the cast is also quite supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, including Mamma Mia stars, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, and Julie Walters; Nanny McPhee actress, Angela Lansbury; and Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton.

Dick van Dyke, who starred in the original Mary Poppins, will also be making an appearance in the sequel.

Mary Poppins Returns will be in cinemas on the 19th of December.

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Last month, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it would break tradition by not having all the songs nominated for Best Original Song performed during the show.

Only “Shallow” from A Star Is Born and “All the Stars” from Black Panther would receive performance honors, meaning “I’ll Fight” from RBG, “The Places Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns, and “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs would not get their chances to shine.

Not all were pleased by the decision, including Mary Poppins Returns star, Lin-Manuel Miranda who labelled the decision “truly disappointing.”

The decision was reversed by The Academy a few days later, who also teased that a “surprise special guest” would be performing the song from the Mary Poppins sequel…

The special guest in question has now been revealed as Bette Midler!

The “Wind Beneath My Wings” singer is no stranger to the Oscars stage, having performed that very song during the In Memorium segment of the 2014 telecast.

Bette will perform “The Place Where Lost Things Go” with composer Marc Shaiman on February 24th.

The post The Academy Finally Reveals the Surprise Special Guest it Promised appeared first on thestarsworldwide.com.

With the release of Mary Poppins Returns just mere weeks away, Disney has now released a song from the film which is just poor delight.

Entitled Trip a Little Light Fantastic, that’s exactly what Lin-Manuel Miranda, who plays Jack, does as he encourages the children in the film to dance away their fears.

Referencing the gas lamplighters called Leeries (of which he is a part), the Hamilton star sings, “If a spark can start inside your heart, then you can always find a way / So when life is getting dreary, just pretend that you’re a Leery as you trip a little fantastic with me.”

We’ll get to see how the song fits in when Miss Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to help now-adult siblings Jane (Emily Mortimer) and Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) after a family tragedy.

Mary Poppins Returns hits screens on the 19th of December.

The post We Already Love This Song from “Mary Poppins Returns” appeared first on thestarsworldwide.com.

The story takes place 25 years after Julie Andrews floated into London with her umbrella to share some of her magic with the Banks family.

And now that young Jane and Michael (played by Emily Mortimer and Ben Winshaw, respectively) are all grown up and have experienced a tragedy, Mary has returned to make sure they take a spoonful of sugar and are alright.

Understandably, Julie would not be reprising her role as the lovable nanny for which she won an Academy Award in 1964.

Instead, Miss Poppins is being delightfully portrayed by another English darling, Emily Blunt.

The rest of the cast is also quite supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, including Mamma Mia stars, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, and Julie Walters; Nanny McPhee actress, Angela Lansbury; and Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton.

Dick van Dyke, who starred in the original Mary Poppins, will also be making an appearance in the sequel.

Mary Poppins Returns will be in cinemas on the 19th of December.

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