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

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 12:03 am EDT 05/09/15
In reply to:	re: Are these some of the songs they played for Mary Martin - AlanScott 06:21 pm EDT 05/08/15

"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." Well, I think it's a huge "if" as to whether Martin could have managed the accent work. Also, although we all know she had a soprano range, it was never very convincing to me, and I don't think the role of Eliza would work nearly as well if her songs were in the alto range. Most important of all, although I know Eliza had previously been played by several older women in productions of PYGMALION, I think it's very important to the plot of the play and the musical that she be quite young, and I don't think that would have worked at all with Martin -- even though I know she was always praised for her youthful quality on stage, and no one seems to have strongly objected to her age when she did THE SOUND OF MUSIC :-)

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