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Julie Andrews was playing the title role in the pantomime Cinderella when she was first seen by the songwriter Sandy Wilson and the American producer Cy Feuer. Wilson was the creator of a popular West End musical, The Boy Friend, a pastiche of the musical comedies of the 1920s. Cy Feuer planned to bring the show to Broadway and wanted to recruit a British cast to preserve the flavor of the London production. When Feuer and his partner, Ernest Martin, offered Julie Andrews the lead in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend, she was reluctant to travel to America. She was only 18, and had never traveled so far from her family. She finally agreed to a one-year contract, and boarded the plane for the country where she would spend most of her life.
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Add to that her other career as a renowned writer of children's books, and Julie Andrews is enjoying a second and third wind. She hopes to produce, but not direct, "because I'm married to a director and I know what THAT'S like.
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As part of the promotion for Julie's latest book, The Great American Mousical, Andrews recorded a brand new song entitled “The Show Must Go On!”. This recording was created to enhance the reader's experience and ... to accompany a new web-game featuring the ‘Mousical’ characters. (edit)
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Synopsis: On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria (Julie Andrews) is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy (Robert Preston). What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male impersonator? Better still: what if she becomes a maleRead More
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Born in Surrey, England, on October 1, 1935, Julie Andrews began performing in musicals as a child, making her Broadway debut at age 19. Her theatre success, most famously as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady," led to steady television and film work.
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Synopsis: Originally aired on CBS, the made-for-TV holiday romance One Special Night brings together James Garner and Julie Andrews for their third feature together, after The Americanization of Emily and Victor/Victoria. Robert (Garner) visits his wife in the hospital, who is suffering from Alzheimer'sRead More
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