Mary Poppins (film) indicated that more than 30 songs were written at various stages of the film's development. No cast recordings of any of these songs have been released to the public, only demos or later performances done by the songwriters — with the exception of the rooftop reprise of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and the "smoke staircase yodel" mentioned below. The Compass Sequence, a precursor to "Jolly Holiday", was to be a multiple-song sequence. A number of possible musical components have been identified: "Mary Poppins" premiered on August 27, 1964, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Travers was not extended an invitation
Lee Boon Chim Lee Boon Chim Tan Sri Dr Lee Boon Chim P.S.M, S.M.S (1926–1998) was a Malaysian businessman and a pioneer of standard Malaysia rubber, who helped guide Malaysian rubber into becoming a valuable international commodity. He was also the Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange and later a Senator in the Malaysian Senate, participating in various government activities. Lee Boon Chim was born and went to school in Singapore. A distant relative of the philanthropist Lee Kong Chian. He went to Cheklang University to read history but his studies were interrupted by the Civil War. He married Puan Sri Choi