But I don't like to watch it any longer, though I still adore the costumes and sets. But you can't look at the clothes and sets without Audrey Hepburn. Some time ago the wide eyed innocent-but-O-so-sophisticated persona of Hepburn's became progressively less tolerable, until watching her on screen in anything made my teeth hurt from the faux sugar. Odd this happening, since I adored Hepburn's persona for years -- but now, I don't.
I mentioned this the other day to el V. So now there's something else that is equally wonderful to whatever My Fair Lady was: Tito Puente's 1964 album, My Fair Lady Goes Latin.
It is really good, but then is Tito Puente and his big band ever anything but really good? Some of the My Fair Lady songs were originally composed with a latin tinge (which I now can recognize when I hear them, but back then -- no), but he makes the songs even more latin, with quite a bit more than a soupçon of jazz arrangement, yet they are always the songs you have known and loved.
A Puerto Rican adaption production of My Fair Lady could compete with no trouble in the production, setting and costume sweepstakes, and certainly vocalists (Audrey Hepburn lipsynched). I'd love to see one. Imagine: Danny Rivera playing Professor Higgins! This would be so great.
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