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22nd December 2021
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Howes made the transition to musical theatre when she was 20 years old in Caprice in 1950 before taking over for Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in 1958.[/caption]
"The best afternoon I ever had was my first matinee," she previously said.
"It was the performance before Julie’s last show, and he wanted me to get a performance under my belt. Moss [Hart, the director] introduced me. He announced that “Julie Andrews will not be playing Eliza Doolittle,” and there was this audible groan."
"The audience felt cheated and I immediately felt I had been thrown to the wolves. By the end of the performance, I had turned them." In 1962 she appeared in the revival of Brigadoon where she became the first person to be nominated for a Tony for a revival performance. It was then in 1967 that Howes began filming for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang where she landed the role of Truly Scrumptious alongside Dick Van Dyke.Explore more on these topics:
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