Tag: Audrey Hepburn

And also with you

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. Belgian-English actress and singer Audrey Hepburn was born on this day in 1929. (died 1993) Star Wars may be the greatest fairy tale of our generation And I say that as a bonafied Tolkien geek who …

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On Broadway on this day in 1956

My Fair Lady opened on Broadway on this day in 1956. With book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, the story is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins who …

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