who sang for audrey hepburn in the musical "my fair lady"?

Answer 1

March 2006 marked the 50th anniversary of the opening on Broadway of Lerner and Loew's My Fair Lady. In adapting Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion for the musical-comedy stage the highest standards were applied to every aspect of the musical theatre -- text, lyrics, music, choreography, direction, Cecil Beaton's costuming and Oliver Smith's sets -- to create as near perfect a production as human ingenuity and imagination could contrive. The result was, as the critic William Hawkins said, "a legendary evening", or, in the words of Brooks Atkinson, "one of the best musicals of the century ... close to the genius of creation." With these and similar critical accolades as a springboard, My Fair Lady went on to become the greatest commercial triumph the American theatre had known up until that time. On 13th June, 1961, it became the longest-running production in Broadway history, outdistancing the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play, Oklahoma!, which had held that record up to then. By that time it had been seen by over three million patrons, and had earned almost forty million dollars; the long-playing recording by the original cast sold over three million discs at a price of fifteen million dollars; the motion-picture rights were sold for over five million dollars. The national tour of a second company begun on 18th March, 1957, stayed on the road several years, breaking box-office precedents in city after city. Numerous companies were formed to present it throughout the civilized world, including the Soviet Union in 1960.


The original - starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews was re-made to cinema in the mid-1960s. It was Audrey Hepburn who brought Eliza Doolittle to the silver screen. I thought no one could replace Julie Andrews as Eliza. I must admit that I was very much mistaken. Despite the fact that it's not Audrey singing, she took to the role of Eliza as if it was especially created for her and gave a magnificent performance.

the songs were performed by Marni Nixon (dubbing Audrey Hepburn) - Nixon aka "Ghostess with the Mostess" was famous for being invisible -- you'd think they would have looked first and foremost for singing talent before casting those movies. - however Hollywood during its movie musical heyday, as now, was always ruled by box office consideration. As people in the real estate business follow the mantra of location, location, location-- so Hollywood's mantra is star power, star power, star power!

On her first "dubbing" roles
While working mostly as an "extra" she did a brief dub-in for the child actress Margaret O'Brien. The film: The Secret Garden. She also dubbed in the angel voices Ingrid Bergman heard in Joan of Arc.

On dubbing for Deborah Kerr
While her most famous "collaboration" with Kerr was The King and I, she also sang a song for her in An Affair to Remember which co-starred Kerr and Cary Grant.

On West Side Story
While Natalie Wood's songs were Nixon's chief assignments, Nixon also did one number for Rita Moreno and does a roll take on a scene where she is effectively doing a duet with herself. That dubbing assignment also led to her asking to be paid some royalties.

While her request was to no avail, Leonard Bernstein ceded one quarter of one per cent of his royalties to her (anyone who knows anything about music royalties will understand the value of Bernstein's generosity).

On her minor role in The Sound of Music opposite Julie Andrews who smarted from being by-passed for the movie version of My Fair Lady

Nixon was happy to be cast as one of the nuns but there was some nervous anticipation about meeting Andrews to whom she served as a reminder of a major disappointment. After all, it was because of Nixon's skills as a singing ghost that the studio powers were able to hire the bigger but non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn. As it turned out, Andrews walked over to her, shook her hand and said "I like your work." She became a good enough friend to help Nixon overcome her anxieties when she was cast to play Eliza in a City Center My Fair Lady revival.

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who sang for audrey hepburn in the musical "my fair lady"?

Answer 3

"Wouldn't it be Loverly"
Performed by Marni Nixon (dubbing Audrey Hepburn) and ensemble.

"Just You Wait"
Performed by Audrey Hepburn and Marni Nixon (dubbing Audrey Hepburn)

"The Rain in Spain"
Performed by Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Marni Nixon (dubbing Audrey Hepburn)

"I Could Have Danced All Night"
Performed by Audrey Hepburn and Marni Nixon (dubbing Audrey Hepburn),
Mona Washbourne and chambermaids

For all the soundtrack listing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/soundtrack

Answer 4

Marni Nixon

Answer 5

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Answer 7

I believe it was Julie Andrews...the same lady who played Maria in "The Sound of Music"

Answer 8

Marnie Nixon I think.

Answer 9

Julie Andrews who played the part in the stage adaptation.

Answer 10

she didn;tt sing that? wohha! wow that is a part of my life i'll never get back!