Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: Alan Jay Lerner, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Frederick Loewe Title: My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Release Date: 5/28/2002 Album Type: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists Styles: Musicals, Traditional Vocal Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 696998999725 |
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 | Alan Jay Lerner, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
The 2,700 performances of Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion gracefully spanned the Eisenhower and Camelot eras, then begat a wildly popular film version, whose 1965 Best Picture Oscar... more » |
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Amazon.com The 2,700 performances of Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion gracefully spanned the Eisenhower and Camelot eras, then begat a wildly popular film version, whose 1965 Best Picture Oscar capped the show's decade of prominence. The crowning achievement of Lerner and Loewe's rich body of work began its recording life on this 1956 cast recording, a collection of performances that long ago became a ubiquitous and indispensable fixture of American musical theater. Indeed, it's hard to imagine anyone else but Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the roles of the cockney Eliza Doolittle and her long-suffering mentor, Henry Higgins, delivering definitive versions of the show's embarrassment of riches: "Why Can't the English?," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face." This new edition offers a digitally burnished take of the already glorious recording, now supplemented with a post-recording conversation track featuring Harrison, Andrews, Lerner, conductor Franz Allers, and original producer Goddard Lieberson, as well as a 1961 audio interview with Lerner and Loewe. --Jerry McCulley Similar CDsSimilarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsCall me old fashioned, but... Cinemabon | United States | 10/04/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "Everytime I see the film "My Fair Lady" I think of the film that might have been. I'm sorry, fans of Audrey Hepburn, but that role was Julie Andrews'. She made it work on Broadway. She made it work in London, and if Jack Warner had any sense at all, he would have hired her for the film. He didn't. Mores the pity. When you listen to this soundtrack, one can only visualize how the film would have swept the Oscars that year. Instead, it tore the Hollywood community apart. Many Academy members knew of the rift and had seen Andrews in her famous role. Poor Audrey was caught in the middle. Years later, Andrews sounded gracious over her chance to perform for Disney instead (for which she received the Best Actress of the Year Oscar). However, we all know that listening to Marnie Nixon sing "Wouldn't it be loverly" is the not the same as Julie's incredible voice. Just as Warner ruined "Camelot" the same way, "My Fair Lady" will always be a Julie Andrews vehicle. Her clear perfect tones, wonderful girlish charm, and graceful style of acting outshined her roles in "Mary Poppins" "The Sound of Music" and "Victor, Victoria." Sadly, "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot" are not part of her great visual lexicon. Buy the Broadway soundtrack, close your eyes, and try to picture a young ingénue Julie Andrews in the role that made her a star."
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