2021 mileage: 1333.6
This morning I settled for quite a short ride (18.8 miles, in 1:21). At first, I planned to watch In the Heights, an early musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit musical Hamilton. But the dialogue of this 2018 performance was unintelligible, and as much of the charm of rap music comes in its verbal felicity, I decided a couple of minutes in that I just couldn't do it. So I switched and watched Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.
A couple of weeks ago, I had watched the 1965 color television production of it with Leslie Ann Warren in the title role, that had so charmed me as a boy. But today I found a treasure. CBS had broadcast (in black and white, of course) a live performance of it on March 31, 1957. (On that date, I was precisely 2 weeks old, having been born March 17. Needless to say, I don't remember the broadcast. 😎)
Julie Andrews plays the title role; and provides a more current introduction to the broadcast at the beginning. This was years before she starred in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, so it is quite a treat to see her younger. The production (available on YouTube) is a kinescope—a recording of a television program on motion picture film.
No comments:
Post a Comment