Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady
Taylor & Francis

Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady - Hardback

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Art, The arts: general issues
ISBN13: 9781138418189
Published: 13 Jul 2017

Format - Hardback
By Keith Garebian

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Regular price A$302.40
Sale price A$302.40 Regular price A$378.00

Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady - Hardback

Regular price A$302.40
Sale price A$302.40 Regular price A$378.00
Product description

"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him,The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him." - Henry
George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his "to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own." Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to be supplanted by a comic opera was therefore unthinkable; yet Lerner and Loewe transformed it into My Fair Lady (1956), a musical that was to delight audiences and critics alike. By famously reversing Shaw‘s original ending, the show even dared to establish a cunningly romantic ending.

Keith Garebian delves into the libretto for a fresh take, and explores biographies of the show‘s principal artists to discover how their roles intersected with real life.

Rex Harrison was an alpha male onstage and off, Julie Andrews struggled with herchaste diva image, and the direction of the sexually ambiguous Moss Hartcontributed to the musical‘s sexual coding.

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