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

Posted by:	AlanScott 06:21 pm EDT 05/08/15
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 can quite see Mary Martin as Eliza. I think that if she could have managed the accent work, she could have acted it well. I can understand why a whole bunch of people saw it as a role for her. Dolores Gray is tougher to imagine. But she may have had more range than she generally got to demonstrate. Or perhaps her Eliza in Pygmalion convinced everyone that she didn't. I believe Carol Channing also played Eliza in Pygmalion in a stock tour. I can imagine her being able to do it. Obviously, she could not have played Eliza in the musical we know as My Fair Lady (although it's interesting to listen to No for an Answer and hear that she did have some head voice at her disposal when she was young). Her tour in another Shaw, The Millionairess, seems to have been successful.

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