A Lovely Night - Making of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (2004) - Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2019
- Documentary filmed, after they have found one a black and white kinescope.
Host: Ted Chapin (President of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization) - Фільми й анімація
It says so much for Julie Andrews that she made so many friends among her co-stars, lasting friendships. And that the floor manager was the to-be-famous Joseph Papp! What wonderful memories. Julie is as lovely as she was 1957. Lovely from within.
Julie Andrews has the most beautiful voice... Singing and speaking! 🥰
I had just turned nine and this was the highlight of that March for me. The step sisters’ song was my favorite although I only remembered some of the lyrics. My poor family, I sang everything I remembered from that performance. And I wanted to be Julie Andrews, still do.
IT's a very rare thing when a person's appearance actually IMPROVES with age. That was certainly the case with the always gracious, charmingly modest Julie Andrews. How she mneged ton b pretter in her fifties sixties an sventies than she was in her early twenties, I'll neer know, but she DID, and I don' beliee it came from plastic surgery. It ca from WITHN. But then Kay Ballard, who was certainly never a beauty, developed into a gracious, dignified, absolutely charming person, herself. I KNEW Edie Adams. We went to the same high school, and she too remained charming, vivacious and delightful all her life. I'm nearly 80, and I've loved the theater since childhood, but I'm glad I've lived long enough finally to appreciate more fully what a SPLENDID contributin these remarkable people gave to American Culture. How I wish we could benefit from their high quality and essential graciousnes today!
I love the fact that each of the cast has a vivid memory of what had been going through the show.... decades in present time. It shows, that they really dedicated to their craft. They just not going there to do the show, but mingling with each other.. you can simply see their bond.
I watched this version of Cinderella for the first time last night. What a treat. Julie Andrews is perfect of course. Why was Jon Cypher not a huge movie star? Ghostly and Ballard were amazing as were the rest of the cast. Adams' beautiful voice was a surprise to me. Thank you so much for posting this making of video.
Same here! Was thrilled to find this version on UA-cam as I had never seen it before. Loved it!
I never even knew that this movie existed! I just saw it today for the first time and I loved it. The year of my birth, 1957, but I wasn't alive yet when they broadcast this gem.
Jon Cypher did become a very well known actor, and much sought after. I worked with his mother [when I was 18] at a lab supplies company in Pittsburgh, PA. She was so proud of her son, Jon, and rightly, so.
Have a blessed Christmas.
Julie Andrews is a blessing to humanity
She sure is.
Ive been in awe of her since I was a little boy.
@@DavidMcFarner Me too
I was 11 years old when I watched the original live performance. After 65 years, I still can sing every song from the show. It's forever etched in my musical memory! Thank you R&H and the glorious cast and orchestra. A Lovely Night!!!!!!!!
This precious and charming gem of a film is a beautiful dream that touches my heart every time I see it. Everything about it is wonderful: the music, lyrics, cast and production- incredible!
"In my own little corner" it's awesome to reconnect with the cast of a well-done interpretation and performance of the timeless Cinderella tale.🎯🎵🎶👸👵👩👩🦰🤴🏰🐭🐶🐎📺🤝🏾🕚🌅 Stay safe everyone!
Julie is so beautiful. Still! Alice Ghostly and Kaye were HILARIOUS!!
Kaye was my favorite. I about died when she was flirting with men during wedding. Lol
Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing the broadcast when I was 14 or so, and Ten Minutes Ago made such an impression that I remembered the tune for years. Those incomparable Rodgers waltzes! The lyrics are great too. As a middling uke player I especially enjoy that and certain other R & H songs. Being able to their beautiful chords makes me appreciate the songs all the more. I had no idea Hammerstein wrote The Last Time I Saw Paris, another beauty.
A fascinating inside look at the creation of one of the greatest musical plays ever written.
My friend Jon Cypher. Oh how I feel for him for singing over Dorothy. My heart Jon.
that confession got to me too. Nice that he worked with a woman who was such a pro not to make a huge deal of it and make him feel worse.
It comes off well though, as if she wanted to but decided against interrupting him...
Jon Cypher is still a hottie and OF COURSE a friend of treasure Betty White !! 🥳🥳 I will always watch anything Julie Andrews makes. Anyone remember the TEXACO Christmas albums Julie made in the 60’s?
I remember them and still have them along with Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, later Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, Phoebe Snow and others.
Actually those albums were marketed by Firestone, not Texaco.
I only found this version of Cinderella, yesterday.
Love it..and Thank you for posting it.
I didn’t realize it was broadcast in color. I’ve only seen a black and white version on UA-cam and it was amazing - but I’d love to have seen the color broadcast.
I remember black and white also, but I think we probably only had black and white tvs since color was new and more expensive!
@@Maya-bu2rf That makes sense
What a wonderful program this was! Thank you for this jewel!!
@The Julie Andrews Archive
Simply wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this! I grew up with the 1965 Lesley Ann Warren version of Rodgers' and Hammerstein's _Cinderella_ , and it is still my favorite version, but I also loved the Julie Andrews version that I just watched on your channel, and listening to the actors' memories about the production makes me love it even more!
I grew up with the Julie Andrews version, and hated that they remade it (I was a child!). I still have the vinyl album my Uncle John went out and bought as soon as he could. Thanks to him I have all the wonderful musicals of that time. Camelot with Julie and Richard Burton and My Fair Lady etc. The Lesley Ann Warren version was good but it had advantages the earlier one did not have.
The STRESS of live television!
I can’t believe there wasn’t a live musical again until I was almost 21 when NBC aired the Sound of Music
@@manuelorozco7760 NBC 's live version of TSOM was a great show. Carrie Underwood was fantastic!
@@allenjones3130 I agree about Carrie
Excellent documentary. Unusually so. The facts are given, leaving us to attach such meaning as we may, to them. The joy of even private interpretation, instead of having it constantly pushed upon us, i.e., being spoon fed.
Never seen this featurette until now! I love this version of Cinderella. First I discovered Brandy’s turn before I found the DVD of Julie in the glass slippers. The Stepsisters occasionally steal the show.
Yes, Dame Julie Andrew's was and is very generous with her co-stars in any broadcast event. She knows what the director and producer are looking for in her performance, so there isn't any need to monopolize camera time. She is the consummate professional performer. This is by far my favourite "Cinderella" of all the productions. Thank you for posting it and for sharing.
@@jeanmarie4462 Mine too
It’s sort f disappeared , but great news it’s on u tube ,, ! Love it .
❤️ Thank You ❤️
How very interesting. Liked, shared and subscribed. :)
My favorite song in the musical is A Lovely Night because it's so pretty.
I also love Impossible, In My Own Little Corner, Do I Love You and Ten Minutes Ago
I love both versions of the musical.
To me, nothing beats the original
Jon Cypher out of sync with the music -- I thought it was intentional to convey the prince's anguish over losing his love. Everything had to follow convention in the fifties, but today, it holds up. It gives that scene some post-modern edginess.
Jon Cypher seems so sweet!
Everyone involved in this charming thing was the embodiment and perfect expression of what-we-call "CLASS" today.
I knew Jon at the time he was doing Hill St Blues...and he is SO SO NICE...we became good friends but he moved out of L.A. and we lost contact. Very good guy...
@@zabellehuss737I just “discovered” this gem of a rendition, only a couple days ago! The entire production (sets, orchestration, choreography, and acting talent) is fantastic! And, Jon Cypher’s singing is exceptional and his portrayal of the prince is IMPASSIONED.
Graciousness, being key word. Use it on people you see every day...they are taken back a little, but you see their chest go up and smile big... It really does something spiritual in them I think.
I daren’t confess the innumerable crimes I would be willing to commit in order to go back in time to see Dame Julie Andrews live in “My Fair Lady”.
Lots of lovely standing stones in Scotland! I touched the stones at Stonehenge but I am sure it was not at an equinox.
I remember this program from the year of the movie Old Yeller. But I remembered that this actress in the movie Mary Poppins.
The presenter says that the production was live and IN COLOR. I didn't know they broadcast in color in 1957, or that there were even color tvs yet!
I saw it in black and white and I guess it was because color was expensive
Edie Adams explained in a separate interview that they did a kinnescope copy first. Some famous person argued with that it was NOT in color. Edie knew the color version jad her hair different and also that she found photos for publicity saying Cinderella in Color. .Edie sent copies to to the woman who were adamant it was in black and white.
Eddie Adams. Recognised her immediately, even tho’ she is nearly unrecognisable, in the usual phrasing & meaning.
mckavitt It’s Edie, not Eddie, and to me she was recognizable because she looks like Edie Adams.
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I wish that somebody would find and post a better copy of "Once Upon A Mattress"...with Carol Burnett! The one on U-tube is very bad visually and aurally...
At least you can find one. There’s none for “Camelot” or “My Fair Lady”. Only bits and pieces and photos. ;)
Disney+ has it!!
Jon you sang very very well
Jules your always phenomenal what a gifted voice so much poise and class.
The whole cast was great
Is there a color version of this?
I saw a DVD once that stated that for some reason the color video was not saved. I am so glad this one, at least, was!
Does anyone know why they didn’t use Julie Andrews in the 60s Cinderella remake? Was she doing Sound of Music at that time?
I have always wondered that. People often talk about how she was not casted in "My Fair Lady".
But when she was also not used for "cinderella" people didn't seem to care.
she was the best cinderella and eliza.
he voice is silky.
tge 1965 cinderella star's voice was too cartoonish
In 1957 she was just 21. Cinderella needs to be young. Would a 30 year old be as convincing? Besides, Julie doesn't like to repeat roles so I doubt she would have wanted to do it.
@@gabrielbrewster107 Julie Andrews was not cast in the remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella' in 1965 because, by that time, it was eight years since the 1957 original television version and Miss Andrews, as beautiful and youthful-appearing as she still was, at 30 years of age was deemed to have been too old to have portrayed the naive young "Cinderella."
As to why Julie Andrews did not portray "Eliza Doolittle" in the Warner Brothers film version of "My Fair Lady," while Miss Andrews by 1964 was a known Broadway star and also well-known in her native England, she was not at that time as well-known in films and internationally. Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" had not yet been released, much less "The Sound of Music." It was not until "Poppins" that Miss Andrews became the huge worldwide star she would remain thereafter.
So, although she was no singer, Audrey Hepburn, who by then was a very famous film actress for over a decade (beginning with the 1953 film "Roman Holiday"), was cast as "Eliza Doolittle" in the film version of "My Fair Lady" instead of Julie Andrews, who originated the role on Broadway. Most of Miss Hepburn's singing as "Eliza," except for some Sprechgesang in "Just You Wait" and trio-singing with Rex Harrison ("Professor Henry Higgins") and Wilfrid Hyde-White ("Colonel Hugh Pickering") in parts of "The Rain in Spain," was recorded by the renowned ghost singer Marni Nixon.
Amazingly, even the excellent singing voice of actor Jeremy Brett, who portrayed "Freddy Eynsford-Hill" (the character who sings "On the Street Where You Live") in the film version of "My Fair Lady," was also dubbed, by ghost singer Bill Shirley, who was best-known as the singing voice of "Prince Phillip" in Disney's "Sleeping Beauty."
@@gabrielbrewster107 Lesley Ann Warren did a very credible job in her interpretation of "Cinderella" Miss Warren was certainly believable, very pretty and also younger by a few years than even Julie Andrew, when the latter portrayed "Cinderella" eight years earlier. Where Miss Andrews excelled over Miss Warren was in the singing of the role. Miss Warren was just not a naturally brilliant singer. Still, Miss Warren's singing was quiet serviceable for the production.
Stuart Damon (as "The Prince") was more handsome than Jon Cypher, and also more witty. Pat Carroll and Barbara Ruick were comedic stage veterans, very much equal to Kaye Ballard and Alice Ghostley as "The Wicked Stepsisters." And Jo Van Fleet was suitably, sneeringly sinister as "The Wicked Stepmother" too. Celeste Holm's "Fairy Godmother" was more regal and mature than Edie Adams' humorously quirky hovering presence. And Walter Pidgeon and Ginger Rogers certainly lent a touch of Hollywood royalty to the 1965 production. Plus the facilities of CBS Television City in 1965 afforded considerably more spacious digs than the more claustrophobic CBS Studio 72 in New York, utilized in 1957.
All in all, both the 1957 and 1965 productions of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" have their merits and their disadvantages. Although, admittedly, Julie Andrews' singing was a very big advantage.
Coincidentally, Misses Andrews and Warren would work together in the Blake Edwards film "Victor,/Victoria" in 1982, 25 years after the original TV version and 15 years following the remake of "R&H's Cinderella".
She was too big a star by then. LA Warren was the right choice
Great doc-- I wonder if they considered putting a microphone on Jon Cypher-- or encouraging him to speak up? All the others have volume
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Agradeço pelo Vídeo, porém eu não falo nem entendo inglês, ao menos vi algumas fotos de atores que pude reconhecer, seria ótimo se tivesse ao menos legenda em português.
Obrigada, pela oportunidade de poder dar a minha opinião.
oi desculpe nao falo portugues então não posso simplesmente "adicionar" uma legenda em português aos vídeos. no entanto, você pode comprar o DVD em sua região e ativar as legendas. cheers!
I wanted to watch her change her outfit
I do not believe it was in color!
OH, FOR CHRISSAKES! THE SUBTITLES ARE NOT ONLY ANNOYING BUT TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. WORST OF ALL, 90% OF THEM ARE INCORRECT. THE TERM IS "CORPS DE BALLET" (GROUP OF DANCERS) NOT "COURT A BALLET!"
Take note, UA-cam automatic CC!
There’s no need to shout, you can just turn them off.
LOL! Unclick the caption. That's all you need to do as it is UA-cam automatic CC!
Um these photos of her in a dress are not from Cinderella ....she never wore that lovely dress in THAT production. The dress in the production was very bland
I think the picture is from the promotion for Cinderella (notice the Pepsi bottle), so I’m keeping it as thumbnail.
The pre-production publicity photographs feature the 'big' dress but it was found impractical in the actual show due to the restricted studio space and also the need on a live show for very quick costume transformations by Julie.
@@TheJulieAndrewsArchive Some folks on the internet are saying that this was the “dress rehearsal tape,” a complete run-through for the benefit of the director and production crew to watch and perfect any flaws, lighting, audio, mic-ing, etc., so they could then present a better live show. But, after watching and re-watching this docu, I’m not so sure. I’m now thinking this was the actual live performance b/w videograph. Am I correct? P.S. It’s tragic that the color version is completely lost to time…
I go by what the back of my dvd cover says. And that some says kinescope of the live performance, not dress rehearsal.
DOROTHY STICKNEY--S-T-I-C-K-N-E-Y--NOT "STICK ME!" CORPS (PRONOUNCED "CORE") DE BALLET--NOT "COURT!" REPRISE (PRONOUNCED "RIH-PREEZ") NOT "REPRIEVES!" FOR CHRISSAKES, IF YOU INSIST ON INCLUDING THESE CAPTIONED SUBTITLES, DO THEM CORRECTLY!
YOU CAN JUST TURN THEM OFF!
also: talk to UA-cam.
Why are you so pressed Robert? Calm down bro
Geez, Louise. Turn OFF the captions!
Do you have a problem or are you a UA-cam illiterate? TURN OFF CAPTIONS. THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO DO INSTEAD OF SHOUTING AWFULLY!
Where's Whitney Houston and Brandy?
Born later and in a different production.