Well, and once again, Your Humble Blogger has been given a part in a community theater show, which means that this Tohu Bohu will get a bunch of notes over the next three months about Theeyater, and I shouldn\u2019t be surprised if it gets very few notes about anything else. I mean, that\u2019s a lot of time eaten up with one thing and another.
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At any rate, this time the play is Pygmalion<\/i>, and YHB will be playing Alfred P. Doolittle. No songs, I\u2019m afraid. No \u201cLittle Bit of Luck\u201d, no \u201cI\u2019m Getting Married in the Morning\u201d. But I get to be undeserving. And half Welsh.
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The problem with Doolittle is getting away from Stanley Holloway. He was terrific, and a magnificent showman, and it\u2019s nearly impossible to read the lines that he said in the film version of My Fair Lady<\/i> without hearing his intonation. It\u2019s much worse with Henry Higgins and Rex Harrison, of course, although truth be told, with a lot of Doolittle\u2019s lines, there really is only one way to read them properly, and that\u2019s what Stanley Holloway did, and that\u2019s what Wilfrid Lawson did, and I suspect that\u2019s what George Rose did and what Arthur English did and Emrys James and Jay O. Sanders and John Mills and Melville Cooper and Douglas Campbell and Henry Travers and the rest of them. Well, and my part will be substantially cut, of course. It\u2019s community theater, we have to get these people home and in bed by eleven, with an intermission in there, too. I haven\u2019t seen the cuts yet, and I can\u2019t start learning my lines until I do.
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Meanwhile, Gentle Readers can start rearranging their summer schedules to be in Western Connecticut in August.
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Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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