| re: Which version of KING AND I? | |
| Last Edit: JereNYC 09:38 am EDT 05/23/24 | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 09:37 am EDT 05/23/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Which version of KING AND I? - KingSpeed 07:04 pm EDT 05/22/24 | |
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| It certainly is. Andrews sounds like an ideal Anna on that recording. I recall that in 1996, when that season's revival of KING AND I was announced, and it turned out that Andrews would be coming back to Broadway in that exact same season in VICTOR/VICTORIA, that there was talk that Andrews and Donna Murphy should have switched roles. Andrews would have been a sensation as Anna and I imagine that Murphy might have been able to do something interesting with Victoria as well. Certainly, in hindsight, THE KING AND I would have been a far wiser choice for Andrew's Broadway return at that point in her life. Given that Andrews was not up to the heavy demands of a role like Victoria 8 times a week at that point (if she ever could have been), returning in something like THE KING AND I or A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (something I also recall being vaguely floated in gossip columns of the time) might have saved her voice and given her the ability to continue her singing career, as someone like Barbara Cook did, well into her later years. |
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