| I, like others, have always found it haunting--I remember my mom taking me to the movie when I was a child at the Lake Theatre in Oak Park, IL, and loving the whole show, but the simplicity of the song was so appealing to a child. My mother had grown up with the wife of the advance man for the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, so when a touring company of one of their shows (or one the organization had produced) came through Chicago, my parents, who at the time were a young couple, poor as church mice, got comps--allowing them to see South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, among others. And they somehow also saw My Fair Lady--as my mother remembered Anne Rogers, who I later saw as Lucille in the tour of No, No, Nanette. Memories. |
