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Keith Garebian - Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady - 9781138960060 - V9781138960060
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Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady

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Description for Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady Paperback. Series: The Fourth Wall. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 121 x 285 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him, The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him. - Henry George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own. Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to be supplanted by a comic opera was therefore unthinkable; yet Lerner and Loewe transformed it into My Fair Lady (1956), a musical that was to delight audiences and critics alike. By famously reversing Shaw's original ending, the show even dared to establish a cunningly romantic ending. Keith Garebian delves into the libretto for a fresh take, and explores biographies of the show's principal artists to discover how their roles intersected with real life. Rex Harrison was an alpha male onstage and off, Julie Andrews struggled with her `chaste diva' image, and the direction of the sexually ambiguous Moss Hartcontributed to the musical's sexual coding.

Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Fourth Wall
Condition
New
Number of Pages
92
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138960060
SKU
V9781138960060
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Keith Garebian
Keith Garebian is a freelance literary and theatre critic, and an award-winning author and poet.

Reviews for Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady
A distillation of years of the author's intimate knowledge about this and other musicals. His love for his subject and his impeccable prose make reading it a delight. - Jeffrey Round, Unvailed Keith Garebian has neatly combined queer theory, biography, and his own special brand of accessible, engaging writing that adds a unique perspective to the presence of a great play that became a great musical. - Bateman Reviews

Goodreads reviews for Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady


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