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She was approached to be cast as the balloon lady, but she declined. She said she felt that Emily Blunt would be perfect for the role, and she felt that her own presence in the film would be a distraction. As it happens, Angela Lansbury who played that role, was considered as an alternative to Andrews as Mary Poppins for the 1964 film.

The film does not give a definite answer, but it is highly probable, seeing as their grown children live in the same old house without them. Another possibility is that they are in a retirement home, most likely starting before the family ran into money trouble.

While the original songs are never sung, little snippets of them are played as underscore.

Not necessarily. Their personal tragedy deals with Michael's wife's death, leaving Michael unable to pay for the house, and William Weatherall Wilkins' threatening to foreclose the house. While one may infer that both Jane and Michael never moved out of their parents' house, it is not revealed until shortly before "The Royal Doulton Music Hall" number when Jane is revealed to have her own flat on the other side of London.