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| re: She has a Donaldson which was the big theater award before the Tonys | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 03:49 pm EDT 10/04/23 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 03:37 pm EDT 10/04/23 | |
| In reply to: re: She has a Donaldson which was the big theater award before the Tonys - JereNYC 02:58 pm EDT 10/04/23 | |
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| Besides Andrews' stage roles (which we and many others are still discussing --- i.e. in this thread), the fact that many, many people wanted her to return to Broadway over the years, especially in the 1970s when she didn't make many movies at all, first trying tv, is akin to proof that her prior Broadway appearances were prominent in people's memory and LPs were played often on their Hi-Fis. What was there was considered pretty "cherce", as Spencer Tracy used to describe Katharine Hepburn. From the mid-60s to about 1970 she was also a big movie star, so I don't think folks expected her to interrupt that career momentum, at least till her films started to flop in a big way and studios canceled some of her planned films. But then she and Blake Edwards had other plans for many years. That "Cinderella" and "Millie" existed at all was because the originals were written for her. "Millie" was done because of her success in the 1920's-themed "Boy Friend" when possibly the rights weren't available or its plot was thought too simple or old-fashioned to fill out a film. Ken Russell certainly had an original take on it when he filmed "The Boy Friend". I do recall that someone talked about making a musical of "Dutchess of Duke Street" for her -- don't know if that was ever written or produced. I think it was director Vivian Matalon around the time he directed the first famous revival of "Morning's at Seven" and was prominent at that time. There was also talk of a "Merry Widow" film with Placido Domingo. Many folks did dream, kind of like the pop music fan's 1970s dream of a Beatles reunion, with Julie Andrews prime among stars who had started on Broadway returning. Unfortunately "Victor/Victoria" wasn't done well. She sounded fine in "Putting It Together" prior to that, but the keys she sang in V/V were too low for her, among other things contributing to her getting what turned out to be an unfortunate vocal operation and the subsequent loss of her singing voice. I guess she could have pulled off Mrs. Lovett, as she could do Cockney from her "My Fair Lady" experience, though she never really did what might be considered character roles until she got older playing older royalty (well, maybe Mary Poppins could be considered sort of a character role with a hint of a romance with Bert), unlike Lansbury who very much did them throughout her career. I think writers would have crafted things for Andrews if she had expressed a strong interest in returning to the theater though. |
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