I love how Michael held Julie.. If I were there watching them, I would have also stood up and give them my applause... Two great actors... Love them both!
I met him once after a performance (not of Phantom). I was totally gobsmacked by how emotional and honest he was talking to a complete stranger. So many actors learn to be snarky and cold as a defense, and he had none of that. His eyes were literally shining, and spoke with me as intensely as someone with their closest friend. Perhaps it's just part of the persona, but it was a very moving 20 minutes of my life haha.
Don't you just love how everyone just exploded to hear Julie Andrews singing again? And Michael Crawford is just so perfect in the role of Henry Higgins. What a wonderful performance!
The audience was so supportive of them, it's great =) Two of my favorite people! I love the way they both move (Julie is so graceful!), and Micheal's grin melts my heart. I think he knew how increadably lucky he was to be with Andrews on stage. Bravo to them both!
Man... the roar of the crowd when she starts singing. That's got to feel so amazing, all that love and support. She may never get back her voice as it was before the surgery, but you've got to give the woman credit-- she didn't let it stop her. I was so happy for her when she decided to sing again, and hearing the audience's response made me happy too.
Ok, apparently I haven't looked for this in over a year, because I could NEVER find it when I used to go looking for it!!! Anyway, I'm so glad someone finally posted it. This has to be one of my favorite televised moments of ALL TIME.
Oh my dear God, this is SO awesome!! Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews together - it just can't get any better. How I wished that I could have been there among the audience to scream, cheer and aplaud.. Thanks a lot for posting this..
I totally know what you mean about crying! I get so emotional over musicals, especially with amazing actors and actresses like Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison! Nobody beats that duo! I with I coulda seen them in person! OMG!! I think I could Michael more seriously in this role if i didnt love Rex so much, or if i didnt keep thinking of Michael singing "we've got elegance!" or "insolent boy!"
I Love this clip. I saw him interviewed on PBS when they aired this one. He was not suppose to sing the my fair lady part but the guy who was suppose to couldn't so he had to fill in.
I had seen this on PBS not too long ago, this was all done last twenty minutes of the program. Julie Andrews had many musical stars singing various songs, and she introduced them so this was a surprise and shocked to the audience that she had regain her voice back.
You can not ask for anything more in the world than the hilarious Michael Crawford and the beautiful Julie Andrews singing a duet together and even though she did not really sing her stage presence and attitude of Miss.Eliza Doolittle is still there and makes this duet perfect.
Oh my word... I never thought of Michael Crawford as Professor Higgins, but he does a great job. If only Julie Andrews could still sing as well as she used to! :( *goes to watch Sound of Music*
I'm a HUGE Julie Andrews fan, and I love Michael Crawford, so this is pure win! Like most people, I know Michael Crawford from the original Phantom soundtrack. Therefore...this is trippy! It's like when I listen to Michael's "O Holy Night": "...The Phantom singing THIS?" Another thought occurs to me: What kind of Christine would Julie Andrews have made? Wait! Don't say! I know the answer to that: an awesome one! : D On another note, I don't blame the audience for FLIPPING OUT! lol.
What a treat to watch these two great performs together! Thank you for posting this. I wish they had done a musical together, but this will definitely do.
I love Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews so much! I love them to death, esp. Michael in POTO, and Julie in Sound of Music. But I also love Audrey and Rex! So many loving actors and actresses!
I was wondering if it was after her surgery. Even though she had to go downan octive, she is still the most amazing singer ever. I am so happy to hear her voice again.
Thanks for this video moves one to tears hearing the awesome applause when Julie Andrews sang! Love her! So much elegance, a class act ! Incredible talent. Beautiful inside & out!
This was a terrific performance. I can't believe Michael Crawford can sing that well! I first saw him in the movie "Hello, Dolly!", and from that I assumed he got by solely on personality. Wonderful job!
@Lehmann108 Yes this was...an interesting note...I watched this the night it first aired on PBS and they were interviewing Crawford in the TV station. He was not the original choice to do the song with her but the actor who was suppose to couldn't do it so he had to learn this song the day before the show!
Realmente hermoso ver a estos dos talentos maravillosos y con una canción increíble, de hecho una de mis canciones favoritas, además del tema del vals. GRACIAS
I got to see Julie Andrews at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. She is a contralto now, but she is still a wonderful singer and so funny. She told us that while she can't sing as high as she used to she can "still sing the hell out of Old Man River!" She is a classy lady!
If I could go back in time to do one thing, on a short list would be to watch Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in the original My Fair Lady broadway musical. God bless Julie Andrews. She is one of a kind.
i love julie andrews!!! her voice hasn't changed a bit over the years (despite her inability to sing as high, but her speaking voice - same now as in the sound of music!)
I've been told that Micheal was asked at the last minute to do this My Fair Lady bit because the star who was to do it that night got ill.. He was also unaware that the lady he would be doing it with was the very famous Julie Andrews! If fact no one else knew it either because she was in the audience that night and she told the stage people she would do it! Watch Micheals' face when he recognized Julie. Anyway this is what I've been told by some stage hands that were there that night.
I believe it was after her surgery. Which is why Crawford is so broken up near the end. He's touched that she is back. Maybe not 100%, but on her way...
You are so lucky to have seen in person, mccolinphan! I think you said you saw him in at the MCIFA event this month. That must have been amazing-the pictures of him are sensational. Oh well, I'll just have to enjoy him in videos, unless he makes it out my way some day!
I once saw Robert Goulet serenade Julie with "If Ever I Would Leave You" from their Camelot days; how great it would be if these two did the same number in concert some day.
@EmiRuth It's from a 2000 concert of Julie and many other B'way stars. This is a charming piece, I wish Mr. C would do Henry Higgins if not in a long show run - he's 68 and retired to New Zeland - but in a video or concert cd.
This was Julie's first public performance after her botched vocal cord surgery; it was feared that she would never sing again. That's why the audiance reacted so positively when she sang those few lines.
Ok I have not seen the comment that everying os talking about. Nor do I really care. I will say that the mark of a great actor/singer is when they can drag the emotion of the song/ Scene out of the person watching. I have to say that both of them can do that. I have seen Micheal in concert and he was great. So everyone stop talking about who cried or didn't cry. The person who wrote that post that everyone is writing about, to me was giving whoever a great complement by saying what they did.
Come now, I hope you realize that Julie was the original Eliza in My Fair Lady... and fantastic. It's hardly fair to judge her on a little cameo at the end of her career. Watch her in Wouldn't It Be Loverly, which is on CZcams from a TV performance in the early 1960's... Then dare to say she's anything but fantastic!
I've read about Michael Crawford after I decided to find out about the cast of "Hello, Dolly!", so I did know that. I don't perticularly care for Andrew Lloyd Webber's work, so I naturally don't keep up. (Not that there's anything wrong with his work -- I myself love "Sunset Boulevard")
This was taped after she had the surgery that mostly took away her singing voice. She was the original Eliza on Broadway and was VERY well-received. Audrey Hepburn had to lip-sync to another's voice in the movie, although she was a talented actress.
@maevenc Ditto. That MultiLlort was a horridly funny troll whose account is now closed, anyway; good riddance. This was a brilliant performance and while I personally wouldn't get so welled up with emotion over this particular song as to cry, I wouldn't find it terribly odd for someone else to react that way to Julie's singing. And to express one's reactions to a video is precisely the purpose of the comment feature--doing so is hardly attention-seeking. Also: A MFL remake?!? OY VEY...._-_
aww poor Julie has to sing down the octave because of her surgery! Damn that surgeon! But only she can make it still sound amazing! Low or not =] she's so amazing
I'm not a trained singer and I have three octaves. (I'm a woman.) I do know what I'm talking about, as I read music and play the piano. Some trained women definitely can have four octaves, although it's rare. It also doesn't necessarily mean the quality of the notes at the low and high end is good enough to sing. For instance, I can sing "ah" in E2 (2 Es above middle C) but couldn't sing a whole song in that range.
@VoiceOfAnAngel1 Everything is getting remade, retconned, adapted... Either people are getting uninspired or uber nostalgic (both I guess... and running after easy money). Or letting their inner fan show up...
I am a long time fan of Julie's and always will be. She's a classy lady with so much talent.
How many of you watching this are also a fan of Michael Crawford in the Phantom of the Opera, thumbs up
Wow, what an applause and standing ovation🤩👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I love how Michael held Julie.. If I were there watching them, I would have also stood up and give them my applause... Two great actors... Love them both!
Michael sounds wonderful as always. And I love how the audience goes wild for Jules. She's such a classy lady.
WOOOOOOOOW!! Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews, WHAT A COMBINATION! LOVED IT!!! Bravo, bravisima! Absolutely stunning and amazing!
Oh my gosh, my two favorite Broadway talents singing and dancing together? My life is complete.
I am filling up. What a wonderful performance by two commensurate actors and vocalists! Thank you so much for posting this. 🥰👍
two of my favorite people EVER!!
Julie what would the world do without you? You are a gem, a treasure, there is no other star like you! You are a singular sensation of all times!
*smile* What a feeling must it have been for her when the applause "burst" out!
this makes me so incredibly happy! they are the two most gorgeously talented people.
Love his interpretation of the beginning, I could listen to him scream that all day!
I think I just died. My 2 favourites on stage together
THIS VIDEO IS WONDERFUL, MICHAEL CRAWFORD AND JULIE ANDREWS !!!!!!!
I met him once after a performance (not of Phantom). I was totally gobsmacked by how emotional and honest he was talking to a complete stranger. So many actors learn to be snarky and cold as a defense, and he had none of that. His eyes were literally shining, and spoke with me as intensely as someone with their closest friend. Perhaps it's just part of the persona, but it was a very moving 20 minutes of my life haha.
I loved him in "Hello Dolly" as Cornelius Hackl and as Frank Spencer in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em''
Don't you just love how everyone just exploded to hear Julie Andrews singing again? And Michael Crawford is just so perfect in the role of Henry Higgins. What a wonderful performance!
The audience was so supportive of them, it's great =)
Two of my favorite people! I love the way they both move (Julie is so graceful!), and Micheal's grin melts my heart. I think he knew how increadably lucky he was to be with Andrews on stage. Bravo to them both!
So moving,elegant and first class entertainment.
Man... the roar of the crowd when she starts singing. That's got to feel so amazing, all that love and support. She may never get back her voice as it was before the surgery, but you've got to give the woman credit-- she didn't let it stop her. I was so happy for her when she decided to sing again, and hearing the audience's response made me happy too.
Ok, apparently I haven't looked for this in over a year, because I could NEVER find it when I used to go looking for it!!!
Anyway, I'm so glad someone finally posted it. This has to be one of my favorite televised moments of ALL TIME.
Sadly the voice didn't return but just for one marvellous moment we all held our breath and wished and it seemed it was happening...lovely moment.
Oh my dear God, this is SO awesome!! Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews together - it just can't get any better. How I wished that I could have been there among the audience to scream, cheer and aplaud..
Thanks a lot for posting this..
I totally know what you mean about crying! I get so emotional over musicals, especially with amazing actors and actresses like Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison! Nobody beats that duo! I with I coulda seen them in person! OMG!! I think I could Michael more seriously in this role if i didnt love Rex so much, or if i didnt keep thinking of Michael singing "we've got elegance!" or "insolent boy!"
I Love this clip. I saw him interviewed on PBS when they aired this one. He was not suppose to sing the my fair lady part but the guy who was suppose to couldn't so he had to fill in.
The man played the Phantom to pefection...he would have been marvelous as Henry Higgins!!
I hardly ever cry, but watching this gets me a little bit teary eyed :)
this makes me so happy i can't even explain it.
I was overwhelmed with tears. Julie Andrews will always be the best.
I had seen this on PBS not too long ago, this was all done last twenty minutes of the program. Julie Andrews had many musical stars singing various songs, and she introduced them so this was a surprise and shocked to the audience that she had regain her voice back.
Gives me goosebumps!
Thank you to whoever posted this. It's wonderful!
The perfect video for a My Fair Lady and Phantom fan. :-D
You can not ask for anything more in the world than the hilarious Michael Crawford and the beautiful Julie Andrews singing a duet together and even though she did not really sing her stage presence and attitude of Miss.Eliza Doolittle is still there and makes this duet perfect.
A dream come true!
❤❤Los UN SOLO ENCANTO. NO ME CANSO DE MIRARLOS SIN FALTA TODAS LAS NOCHES.❤❤❤❤
Oh my word... I never thought of Michael Crawford as Professor Higgins, but he does a great job. If only Julie Andrews could still sing as well as she used to! :( *goes to watch Sound of Music*
I'm a HUGE Julie Andrews fan, and I love Michael Crawford, so this is pure win!
Like most people, I know Michael Crawford from the original Phantom soundtrack. Therefore...this is trippy! It's like when I listen to Michael's "O Holy Night": "...The Phantom singing THIS?"
Another thought occurs to me: What kind of Christine would Julie Andrews have made? Wait! Don't say! I know the answer to that: an awesome one! : D
On another note, I don't blame the audience for FLIPPING OUT! lol.
My God, how Michael can dance! Yay!
WONDERFUL... Rex was awesome but he kind of spoke it, Michael sings it... Wonderful innit :0)x
What a treat to watch these two great performs together! Thank you for posting this. I wish they had done a musical together, but this will definitely do.
I love Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews so much! I love them to death, esp. Michael in POTO, and Julie in Sound of Music.
But I also love Audrey and Rex! So many loving actors and actresses!
this is splendid thanks for posting....
I was wondering if it was after her surgery. Even though she had to go downan octive, she is still the most amazing singer ever. I am so happy to hear her voice again.
OMG this is incredible!! Julie andrews will always be amazing no matter what!
Amazing, thanks for posting this.
What a shame they couldn't lure Michael back to the stage with a revival of MFL. He's be stunning.
OMFG!!!! *freaks out* 2 of my favorite people singing together!! This is INCREDIBLE thank you sooo much!!
Thanks for this video
moves one to tears hearing the awesome applause when Julie Andrews sang! Love her! So much elegance, a class act ! Incredible talent. Beautiful inside & out!
God, they love her. No one will ever compare to Julie Andrews.
wouw!!!!!!!! thnx for posting!
Lovely!
WOW!♥️♥️♥️
This was a terrific performance. I can't believe Michael Crawford can sing that well! I first saw him in the movie "Hello, Dolly!", and from that I assumed he got by solely on personality. Wonderful job!
How very beautiful :-) thank you.
@Lehmann108 Yes this was...an interesting note...I watched this the night it first aired on PBS and they were interviewing Crawford in the TV station. He was not the original choice to do the song with her but the actor who was suppose to couldn't do it so he had to learn this song the day before the show!
This is so wonderful!
I love you Michael. I will always love you. :D :D :D
Realmente hermoso ver a estos dos talentos maravillosos y con una canción increíble, de hecho una de mis canciones favoritas, además del tema del vals.
GRACIAS
I got to see Julie Andrews at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. She is a contralto now, but she is still a wonderful singer and so funny. She told us that while she can't sing as high as she used to she can "still sing the hell out of Old Man River!" She is a classy lady!
If I could go back in time to do one thing, on a short list would be to watch Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews in the original My Fair Lady broadway musical. God bless Julie Andrews. She is one of a kind.
i love julie andrews!!! her voice hasn't changed a bit over the years (despite her inability to sing as high, but her speaking voice - same now as in the sound of music!)
I remember Michael with Sarah Brightman, Sarah & Julie are both great :)
how amazing would you feel if you were julie andrews then. that applause is fantastic!
I've been told that Micheal was asked at the last minute to do this My Fair Lady bit because the star who was to do it that night got ill.. He was also unaware that the lady he would be doing it with was the very famous Julie Andrews! If fact no one else knew it either because she was in the audience that night and she told the stage people she would do it! Watch Micheals' face when he recognized Julie. Anyway this is what I've been told by some stage hands that were there that night.
Barry Fohrman Julie is a PRO, no need to rehearse! Michael done great!
Sorry I'm late to the party here, but Michael knew it was Julie. He said so in an interview. They rehearsed the number together.
She was the presenter of the show all along the night! So everybody knew she was there!
I believe it was after her surgery. Which is why Crawford is so broken up near the end. He's touched that she is back. Maybe not 100%, but on her way...
Julie Andrews is wonderful...as well as Michael Crawford.
Obviously a PBS Great Performances. I suggest you look up the PBS site and search for the DVDs that are sold of the Great Performances.
You are so lucky to have seen in person, mccolinphan! I think you said you saw him in at the MCIFA event this month. That must have been amazing-the pictures of him are sensational. Oh well, I'll just have to enjoy him in videos, unless he makes it out my way some day!
Indeed!^^
I once saw Robert Goulet serenade Julie with "If Ever I Would Leave You" from their Camelot days; how great it would be if these two did the same number in concert some day.
@EmiRuth It's from a 2000 concert of Julie and many other B'way stars. This is a charming piece, I wish Mr. C would do Henry Higgins if not in a long show run - he's 68 and retired to New Zeland - but in a video or concert cd.
It had to be cos Jules no longer has that fantabulous 4 octave range.Jules still rules!
This was Julie's first public performance after her botched vocal cord surgery; it was feared that she would never sing again. That's why the audiance reacted so positively when she sang those few lines.
It's the "Embassy Waltz" from My Fsir Lady.
@VoiceOfAnAngel1
Yes, it is. Glad you noticed it (I like this game and the soundtrack).
agreed.
Welp I would have married Michael Crawford if I were his age. That's just it, guys. I'd marry him now, even. 😃
Just fab and i'm so pleased it was Michael and not Jean Luc Picard who twirled her about the chemistry would've been all wrong?!
she had a 4 octaves range as a kid. om your tube you can hear the mignon of p...... something she that song when she was 12. it incredeble high.
Great
That's what you call ledgendary.
Ok I have not seen the comment that everying os talking about. Nor do I really care. I will say that the mark of a great actor/singer is when they can drag the emotion of the song/ Scene out of the person watching. I have to say that both of them can do that. I have seen Micheal in concert and he was great. So everyone stop talking about who cried or didn't cry. The person who wrote that post that everyone is writing about, to me was giving whoever a great complement by saying what they did.
I believe this is after her operation, that is why the audience is cheer her like wild when she sings, although she is singing lower than normal.
Come now, I hope you realize that Julie was the original Eliza in My Fair Lady... and fantastic. It's hardly fair to judge her on a little cameo at the end of her career. Watch her in Wouldn't It Be Loverly, which is on CZcams from a TV performance in the early 1960's... Then dare to say she's anything but fantastic!
I've read about Michael Crawford after I decided to find out about the cast of "Hello, Dolly!", so I did know that. I don't perticularly care for Andrew Lloyd Webber's work, so I naturally don't keep up. (Not that there's anything wrong with his work -- I myself love "Sunset Boulevard")
was this taped after her surgery? I havn't heard her sing that part since her surgery.
This was taped after she had the surgery that mostly took away her singing voice. She was the original Eliza on Broadway and was VERY well-received. Audrey Hepburn had to lip-sync to another's voice in the movie, although she was a talented actress.
@maevenc Ditto. That MultiLlort was a horridly funny troll whose account is now closed, anyway; good riddance. This was a brilliant performance and while I personally wouldn't get so welled up with emotion over this particular song as to cry, I wouldn't find it terribly odd for someone else to react that way to Julie's singing. And to express one's reactions to a video is precisely the purpose of the comment feature--doing so is hardly attention-seeking.
Also: A MFL remake?!? OY VEY...._-_
What is the name of this program, and is it available for purchase? Thanks for this wonderful posting.
Is the "rain in spain" in a different key to the on in the movie??
aww poor Julie has to sing down the octave because of her surgery! Damn that surgeon!
But only she can make it still sound amazing! Low or not
=]
she's so amazing
What year is this?
is this after Julie had her surgery accident?
When was this?
Was this before or after her throat operation?
Wasn't this after Julie's vocal mishap? I thought that was the reason for all the clapping. This was, like, the first time she'd sung since then.
I'm not a trained singer and I have three octaves. (I'm a woman.) I do know what I'm talking about, as I read music and play the piano. Some trained women definitely can have four octaves, although it's rare. It also doesn't necessarily mean the quality of the notes at the low and high end is good enough to sing. For instance, I can sing "ah" in E2 (2 Es above middle C) but couldn't sing a whole song in that range.
@RadicalDreamer17 It's so sad. Where has creativity gone? : (
Btw, is your handle inspired by Chrono Cross? : )
@VoiceOfAnAngel1
Everything is getting remade, retconned, adapted... Either people are getting uninspired or uber nostalgic (both I guess... and running after easy money). Or letting their inner fan show up...