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A Captivating Evening With Julie Andrews (Westbury Music Fair 1987, audio only) THANK YOU, Archive Chum and long time Julie fan Ernesto! -------------------------------- FOR JULIE ANDREWS, THE SOUND OF A DIFFERENT MUSIC By Stephen Holden, Nov. 17, 1987 Julie Andrews, Hollywood's perennial beacon of sweetness and light, is busy rediscovering her identity as a singer. The 52-year-old star, who has not given a concert in nearly a decade, is bringing a lavish one-woman show to the Westbury Music Fair tomorrow for four nights.[...]''It would be silly for me to say that the idea hasn't crossed my mind,'' Miss Andrews said in a telephone interview the other day. ''But right now the goal is simply the doing of the show. Who knows where it will lead? A successful Broadway run would mean uprooting the family, asking the kids to change schools and putting up with me being virtually a nun.'' Opposite 'Enry 'Iggins at 20''A Captivating Evening With Julie Andrews,'' as the show is called, features the singer with a 39-piece orchestra doing songs that encompass the breadth of a career that began in English music halls when she was a child, then took her to Broadway where she made her debut [...] after which Walt Disney cast her in ''Mary Poppins.'' That movie and ''The Sound of Music,'' released in 1964 and 1965, respectively, established Miss Andrews as the movies' ranking Pollyanna. Even now, that image persists despite a wide range of roles in films written and directed by her husband, the director Blake Edwards, with whom she has raised two adopted children, Amy, 13, and Joanna, 12. They divide their time between two homes, one near Malibu, Calif., the other in Switzerland. Miss Andrews's decision to return to the concert stage came from inner pressure and fortuitous timing.''I've been asked if I would like to do it for a number of years, but either I was too busy or the children weren't settled,'' she said. ''Then this year I began worrying that I might wake up five or 10 years from now, regretting never having done it.'' The Music-Hall Days''So far it's been a revelation to discover that my reasons for performing are entirely different now from what they used to be,'' she said. ''In the early days, performing was all I knew. It was my whole identity, and I used it both for gratification and to avoid a lot of soul searching. Now I find I'm doing it just for the sheer joy of doing it.''[...]''Though it certainly wasn't a normal childhood it was the only one I knew,'' she recalled. ''At the time I thought I was spoiled and special and all sorts of things. But we were also very poor, and spent a lot of time in bad digs. In retrospect, I wish I had had better schooling and more peer relationships. [...]' Miss Andrews became the star of her stepfather's radio program (sic!), ''The Archie Andrews Show.'' Her American break came when she had risen about as far she could go in the English music-hall world. After becoming a star at 18, she spent seven and a half years on Broadway and in the West End [...] with barely an intermission.[...] ''I experienced tremendous separation anxiety from my parents. And it was killing to do eight shows a week. A lot of painful growing up took place. And I became very neurotic about my voice and was sure it would be forever damaged.''Today, Miss Andrews is confident about her voice. Her range remains considerable [...]. In her show, Miss Andrews ventures beyond the realm of theater music into jazz [...]. She also offers an extended tribute to Alan Jay Lerner, whose lyrics she has probably done more to immortalize than any other singer. ''It was a case of the glove fitting the hand,'' Miss Andrews said [...]. ''Frederick Loewe's music has a European flavor, and in both 'My Fair Lady' and 'Camelot,' they wrote about England. Some of the things in my 'My Fair Lady' were not that different from the vaudeville stuff I was used to.''[...]' 'Though I was known on Broadway, I had never made a movie, so I understood perfectly why they would need a box-office name,'' she said. ''Now I wish I had done it definitively somewhere for the record.'' It is often forgotten that television played a major role in spreading Miss Andrews's name beyond Broadway. Last night her television career was celebrated in a dinner and reception at the Museum of Broadcasting [...].''Making 'The Sound of Music' was very long, very hard work,'' Miss Andrews said. [...]While movies like ''The Americanization of Emily,'' ''S.O.B.'' and ''Victor/Victoria'' have seen Miss Andrews cast in roles that are very different in spirit from the indefatigably optimistic governess, in most people's minds the star still embodies unflappable cheer and good will. Does the stereotype fit the star?'' Certainly something of me rubs off on every role I do,'' she said. ''Obviously there's got to be that quality in me somewhere. But I do hope it's not all there is.'' Source: https://nyti.ms/3U9smZR