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EBOOK Loverly:The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199968145
EAN: 20C6D507EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's timeless classic My Fair        Lady. Sitting in the middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as Rodgers        and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed        critical success similar to that of its rivals but also had by far the longest run        of a Broadway musical up to that time. From 1956 to 1962, its original production        played without a break for 2,717 performances, and the show went on to be adapted        into one of the most successful movie musicals of all time in 1964, when it won        eight Academy Awards. Internationally, the show also broke records in London, and        the original production toured to Russia at the height of the Cold War in an attempt        to build goodwill. It remains a staple of the musical theater canon today, an        oft-staged show in national, regional, and high school theaters across the        country.Using previously-unpublished documents, author Dominic McHugh presents a        completely new, behind-the-scenes look at the five-year creation of the show,        revealing the tensions and complex relationships that went into its making. McHugh        charts the show from the aftermath of the premiere of Shaw's Pygmalion and the        playwright's persistent refusal to allow it to be made into a musical, through to        the quarrel that led lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe to part        ways halfway through writing the show, up to opening night and through to the        present. This book is the first to shed light on the many behind-the-scenes creative        discussions that took place from casting decisions all the way through the final        months of frantic preparation leading to the premiere in March 1956. McHugh also        traces sketches for the show, looking particularly at the lines cut during the        rehearsal and tryout periods, to demonstrate how Lerner evolved the relationship        between Higgins and Eliza in such a way as to maintain the delicate balance of        ambiguity that characterizes their association in the published script. He looks too        at the movie version, and how the cast album and subsequent revivals have influenced        the way in which the show has been received. Overall, this book explores why My Fair        Lady continues to resonate with audiences worldwide more than fifty years after its        premiere.

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