Julie Andrews' Memoir Reveals Surprising Childhood
Julie Andrews' Memoir Reveals Surprising Childhood
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Julie Andrews, immaculate and crisp, is walking through a dusty construction zone in the upper reaches of Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. Everyone stops working and stares—at 72, she still looks wonderfully like, well, Julie Andrews. A guy in a hard hat rushes over with his cell phone to ask for a photo. Downstairs, in the main theater, Disney's "Mary Poppins" is playing, based on the 1964 film that made her a star and won her an Oscar. But up here, in 1956, the place was home to rehearsals for "My Fair Lady." It was here that the 20-year-old English ingénue with an astonishing vocal range realized she had no idea how to become Eliza Doolittle, let alone create a Cockney accent. "I was inexperienced and painfully aware of it," writes Andrews in her lovely new memoir, "Home." Director Moss Hart put her through a sort of theatrical boot camp during which he "bullied, cajoled, scolded, and encouraged," she writes...
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