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putting the whole article here so that when they delete it from their site then it will still be available here...
from www.telegraph.co.uk
ISSUE 1274
Friday 20 November 1998
Julie Andrews 'might never sing again'
By David Sapsted
THE actress Julie Andrews - the voice of Eliza Doolittle, Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp - may never sing again, Blake Edwards, her husband, has disclosed to an American magazine.
More than a year after she quit her lead role on Broadway in the musical Victor/Victoria to have surgery for the removal of non-cancerous nodules in her throat, 63-year-old Andrews has lost her crystal singing voice.
"If you heard it, you'd weep," Edwards, her husband of 29 years, tells this weekend's issue of Parade magazine. "I don't think she'll sing again - it's an absolute tragedy."
Andrews had hoped that the operation would cure the throat problems she was encountering during her Broadway run. "She was told she'd be OK in six weeks and that the voice would actually be better," says Edwards. "It's over a year now [and] there isn't a day when her voice doesn't get weak."
Gene Schwam, her spokesman, said yesterday that the actress, who lives in Manhattan with her husband, was "very saddened" about the loss of her voice.
"The doctor who did the surgery said they didn't know when it might heal," he added. "There's a 50-50 chance it won't. Julie has always considered herself a singer who acts rather than an actor who sings. Music and singing has always been an important part of her life."
Her condition has meant that she has had to scrap plans to appear in a musical comedy, The Big Rosemary, written by her husband, and her only recent stage appearance came last month when she hosted a Carnegie Hall concert.
"She can talk, she can narrate, she just can't use her vocal cords for hitting notes," Mr Schwam said. He added that she would probably not have had the surgery had she known she would lose her famed voice.
Edwards is now developing a show based on a magic act, that will feature the actress in a non-singing role with her friend, the comedienne Carol Burnett.
putting the whole article here so that when they delete it from their site then it will still be available here...
from www.telegraph.co.uk
ISSUE 1274
Friday 20 November 1998
Julie Andrews 'might never sing again'
By David Sapsted
THE actress Julie Andrews - the voice of Eliza Doolittle, Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp - may never sing again, Blake Edwards, her husband, has disclosed to an American magazine.
More than a year after she quit her lead role on Broadway in the musical Victor/Victoria to have surgery for the removal of non-cancerous nodules in her throat, 63-year-old Andrews has lost her crystal singing voice.
"If you heard it, you'd weep," Edwards, her husband of 29 years, tells this weekend's issue of Parade magazine. "I don't think she'll sing again - it's an absolute tragedy."
Andrews had hoped that the operation would cure the throat problems she was encountering during her Broadway run. "She was told she'd be OK in six weeks and that the voice would actually be better," says Edwards. "It's over a year now [and] there isn't a day when her voice doesn't get weak."
Gene Schwam, her spokesman, said yesterday that the actress, who lives in Manhattan with her husband, was "very saddened" about the loss of her voice.
"The doctor who did the surgery said they didn't know when it might heal," he added. "There's a 50-50 chance it won't. Julie has always considered herself a singer who acts rather than an actor who sings. Music and singing has always been an important part of her life."
Her condition has meant that she has had to scrap plans to appear in a musical comedy, The Big Rosemary, written by her husband, and her only recent stage appearance came last month when she hosted a Carnegie Hall concert.
"She can talk, she can narrate, she just can't use her vocal cords for hitting notes," Mr Schwam said. He added that she would probably not have had the surgery had she known she would lose her famed voice.
Edwards is now developing a show based on a magic act, that will feature the actress in a non-singing role with her friend, the comedienne Carol Burnett.
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