It's delightful, it's delicious, it's dlevy!
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And by the way, if you’ve never seen the original version of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, starring Julie Andrews, that’s on YouTube too.
Confession time: I can’t stand the character of Henry Higgins and wish they had kept the original ending of Pygmalion instead of having Eliza go back to him at the end of My Fair Lady.
I always thought My Fair Lady should end with Higgins saying “Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?” and Pickering coming out totes naked (except for Higgins’ slippers), because they were totes gay for each other.
I have this vision for a My Fair Lady/The King and I crossover where Eliza grows up to be a governess in Siam and realizes that the King’s thousand wives are clearly an unsuccessful attempt at compensating for something, so she sends for her dear old friend Henry Higgins who can fill the hole (GET IT) in the King’s life, and they all live happily ever after.
(Remember that Julie Andrews has played both Eliza and Anna; Rex Harrison has played both Higgins and the King. FREAKY RIGHT?)
Julie and Carol’s 60s medley, part two, from Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center. (Here’s part one.)
But seriously - these two broads singing “Aquarius” and “Son of a Preacher Man” and the rest is just brilliant.
Julie & Carol’s follow-up medley for their Lincoln Center special covered the evolution of pop music in the ten years since the previous concert. If you’ve been dying to hear these two grande dames of the musical theater cover the Beatles and Burt Bacharach, you’re in luck.
This medley is so long it’s in two parts on YouTube. Part two coming in a minute.
Silly me. Everything’s on YouTube these days. Here’s the original Julie & Carol medley, “The History of Musical Comedy,” from their first television special together, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall.
The flip side of Julie Andrews singing “Dear Friend” was Julie Andrews singing the title song from She Loves Me.
(Do you all know why it was called the flip side, dear readers? Because they were records. And you needed to flip them over to hear the song on the other side. Sometimes I feel like the goddamned man in the chair.)
Since all my younger Tumblr friends are discovering Tumblr this week, it’s time to introduce them to Julie Andrews’s recording of “Dear Friend” and the sad tale of the proposed film version starring Julie that wasn’t to be.
