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re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin

Posted by:	PlayWiz 05:22 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin - Michael_Portantiere 03:35 pm EDT 05/07/15

I'm not sure how Mary Martin's attempts at an English accent would have been, but she was one of the first in line for female musical leads at the time, kind of like Kelli O'Hara (well at Lincoln Center anyway) but in Martin's case, she actually represented box-office dollars. Also, if Gray had been cast, the keys could have been lowered. Eliza doesn't really go very high--just a "G" in "I Could Have Dance All Night". Gray was a fine actress and had studied at RADA around the time she starred in "Annie Get Your Gun" in London. Maybe Gertrude Lawrence, who I believe performed in "Pygmalion" might have been interested if she had lived, since Mrs. Patrick Campbell and Lynn Fontanne had played the role at considerably older ages than Eliza's stated age.

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