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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2021 17:52:30 GMT
The first Julie Andrews autobiography, 'Home,' is very good but the second one, 'Homework' is quite disappointing - a dull listing of her film roles with few insights. Incidentally the best book about My Fair Lady is 'Loverly' by Dominic McHugh - he goes into forensic detail about the creation of the musical. I agree, I started Julie's 'Home Work' book last year and stopped half way through out of boredom. I still have yet to finish it. There's nothing exciting about it, unfortunately. I agree, McHugh's Loverly is brilliant, quite academic in parts (it's based on his PhD thesis), but some great insights.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 1, 2021 13:24:59 GMT
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Post by dippy on Feb 3, 2021 2:09:28 GMT
I gave up on Home Work too, I'll attempt to finish it one day but I felt like it was a lot of stuff that has been repeated over and over again.
I've got a My Fair Lady question, today my sister decided that she had some interest in seeing the film (surprised me, she doesn't like musicals), I then went on a dvd hunt telling her I thought I'd got it in Switzerland and it'd be funny to hear some of the German. Unfortunately I got the dvd here so I was wrong about that but she did then ask me if I had any idea what Eliza sounds like in German. Is it a cockneyised version of German or is it a specific accent? I've seen a production in German but I can't remember. Anyone know? Also what about in other languages?
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Post by Someone in a tree on Feb 3, 2021 9:03:25 GMT
My German ex from Stutgart performed in it at High School. Their Eliza apparently had a Berlin accent. I'm not sure if that's a standard countrywide approach though. It's sounds very West German / GDR to me
On YouTube is various clips from the Komishce Oper production. You may find something there (you will also see lots of gramaphones in those clips!).
A German language cast recording is on Spotify. Maybe that could indicate something?
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 3, 2021 11:09:10 GMT
Sound of Musicals is currently being repeated on BBC4 and iPlayer, with the final 10 minutes of Episode 1 covering My Fair Lady. Fortunately, I'm a bit behind, so it's still quite fresh in my mind.
Neil Brand attributes its success, especially in America, to it being about the British class system, something Alan Jay Lerner was familiar with from his school days. Does it follow, then, that in those countries with a class system of their own, the characters and their accents can be transplanted, but elsewhere, like the USA, it can't?
Anyway, well worth watching, or re-watching, especially as the 10 minutes before covers the world-famous Crucible Theatre's production of Annie Get Your Gun. 😉
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Post by Mr Snow on Feb 3, 2021 22:30:57 GMT
Interesting because in his prologue Shaw stated that class determined by accent, was an English thing. I believe Lerner used this thought to set up the drama. Perhaps they was wrong and it's success is because its a universal problem that we all can recognise. But Ascot etc are specifically English and key scenes written into the telling. Are there theatrical creations more English than Henry Higgins or Alfred P Doolittle?
“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him”,
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Post by dippy on Feb 4, 2021 0:00:23 GMT
My German ex from Stutgart performed in it at High School. Their Eliza apparently had a Berlin accent. I'm not sure if that's a standard countrywide approach though. It's sounds very West German / GDR to me On YouTube is various clips from the Komishce Oper production. You may find something there (you will also see lots of gramaphones in those clips!). A German language cast recording is on Spotify. Maybe that could indicate something? Thanks, a Berlin accent, interesting. Unfortunately my knowledge of different German accents isn't good enough to be able to pin point the location well enough if I have a listen, I'd only really be able to know if it was from southern Germany. I guess I could go on a youtube/spotify exploration one day and see what I discover.
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