My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-28
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Why Can't The English?
- Wouldn't It Be Loverly
- With An Ordinary Man
- I'm An Ordinary Man
- Just you Wait
- The Rain In Spain
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- Ascot Gavotte
- On The Street Where You Live
- You Did It
- Show Me
- Get Me To The Church On Time
- A Hymn To Him
- Without You
- I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
- A Post-Recording Conversation (bonus track)
- Playback: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe (bonus track)
Music reviews of My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: My Fair Lady Never Lost Its Charm
Rating: 5 Stars
After 53 years, My Fair Lady, Starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, featuring the incomparable Stanley Holloway, never lost its charm. George Bernard Shaw's classic tale, Pygmalion, comes to life under the genius direction of Moss Hart. Rex Harrison oozes charm from every pore, in his masterful portrayal of Henry Higgins. And, by George, Julie Andrews really got it as she sings like an angel in her rendition of Eliza Doolittle.
Even Al Hirschfeld, famous theatrical satirical caricaturist of the New York Times, outdid himself in his graphic representation of the master play-right, George Bernard Show, manipulating the master linguist, Professor Higgins, who in turn attempts to manipulate the fate of a poor Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in wagering a bet with the gracious colonel Pickering. Indeed, one of Broadway's dearest shows.
When I hear Julie Andrews' wonderful voice next to the immortal talking songs of Rex Harrison I cannot imagine a more perfect duo. It's like Ginger Rogers--Fred Astaire dancing through their vocal chords. Add to that, Alan Jay Lerner's incredible lyrics and Frederick Loewe's delicious score, and you have theatrical magic! No theatre lover's collection is complete without this disc.
Description of My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
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 McCulleyGeneral CDs
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