Thursday, April 28, 2005

Loewe and Behold

The BBC Web site currently has a page commemorating the night in 1958 that Broadway's "My Fair Lady" opened in London, which links to a video of Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, and Stanley Holloway being interviewed after the show. Andrews is utterly lovely and gracious, as one would expect—it's easy to imagine how much she charmed audiences. It's a terrible loss that she wasn't allowed to reprise her role in the film.