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was the original broadway show ever filmed?

posted 17 years ago by marylee18
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Burton, Goulet, Andrews? It was the first musical I ever fell in love with. Gabriel Byrne is so tired in the new one...

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[–] tdoa 17 years ago

In Ms. Andrews' biography "Home", she states that she regrets no recordings were made of the original Broadway versions of "My Fair Lady" & "Camelot". The only filmed records of them were cast appearances on the Ed Sullivan show. Recently saw the "concert" version from Lincoln Centre with Gabriel Byrne, who is an actor I normally appreciate, but his Arthur and singing were painfully atrocious. Of all the non-singing actors I've heard in the role, to me Richard Burton was by far the best, within his limited range he was not that bad a singer.

[–] DryToast 17 years ago

A Lerner & Loewe tribute was broadcast on TV in the early 1960s and includes a lot of rare footage: Burton doing the first act finale of Camelot, Julie Andrews doing "Show Me" from My Fair Lady, with a Freddy, very funny, I wonder whether it was staged this way on Broadway. Stanley Hollloway and Maurice Chevalier were there too, and I think Goulet. I picked up a VHS copy on e-bay a few years ago.

"Footman...shine my shoe. Shine my shoe."

[–] koppmeier_kevin 16 years ago

There is a dvd of the revival with Richard Harris as Arthur -- but that's as close as you may get.