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WHEN A LYRIC PICKS UP A NEW RELEVANCE by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia   Every now and then, a lyric written long ago assumes a new and suddenly relevant meaning.   That happened with the 1962 TV-special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. It contained a hellishly clever parody of The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews played Mrs. Pratt, a happy-go-lucky Maria von Trapp stand-in who supervised a troupe of twenty children. Little did Andrews know that in three years …

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:41PM on April 6, 2015

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