Julie Andrews News

BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season.

The show premiered on Broadway in 1959, winning a Tony award for Best Musical in 1960, before Julie Andrews unforgettably played Maria, the fun-loving nun turned nanny who falls in love with her employer and wins over his children, in the iconic 1965 film production.

For so many of us, Julie Andrews loomed large in our childhoods, a constant presence through repeated viewings of those two iconic films, MARY POPPINS, and THE SOUND of MUSIC.

Julie Andrews is so well known across the world by generations of film fans for her roles in films such as The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins.

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens." Chances are, most of you are familiar with those words.

May 14--NBC has set Dec. 5 as the debut date of its live TV production of "The Sound of Music," starring Oklahoma's country music star Carrie Underwood.

Julie Andrews no longer sings in public, the legacy of a botched operation on her vocal cords.

Shana Farr , the multi-talented actress/singer who won the coveted Julie Wilson Award at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 23rd Annual Cabaret Convention last October at Jazz at Lincoln Center, will make her London singing debut at The Crazy Coqs in London, England, tonight, May 14 - 18, 8:00 PM with two late-night shows May 17 - 18, 10:30 PM.

Allison Spratt Pearce, starring as Maria in the San Diego Musical Theatre's staging of "Sound of Music," is "fiercely determined but warm and maternal as well.

Actress Julie Andrews, invoking references to her beloved movies, urged more than 6,000 University of Colorado graduates Friday to "live lightly on this Earth and give generously." "Use your knowledge and your heart to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark," ... (more)

Looking for a fun, different, and quirky event to attend with your friends and family next weekend? Get your vocal chords warmed up and join us at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, May 19, at 1 p.m. for the screening of the Academy Award-winning movie musical The Sound of Music.

Shana Farr , the multi-talented actress/singer who won the coveted Julie Wilson Award at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 23rd Annual Cabaret Convention last October at Jazz at Lincoln Center, will make her London singing debut at The Crazy Coqs in London, England, on May 14 - 18, 8:00 PM with two late-night shows May 17 - 18, 10:30 PM.

Julie Andrews gives the commencement address at the University of Colorado's spring graduation at Folsom Field on Friday, May 10, 2013.

The foothills will be alive with the sound of music, as Julie Andrews speaks to the University of Colorado, Boulder's more than 6,000 graduates.

Michael Kantor, who won an Emmy in 2005 for his "Broadway: The American Musical," a six-part series hosted by Julie Andrews, is back with yet another look at the Great White Way with ""Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy." Having explored the history of the New York stage in-depth in the award-winning series, the filmmaker was ready to move on.

What: The Civic Theatre presents Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Cinderella," the beloved fairy tale about a young woman who meets her prince through the magic of a fairy godmother.

It's possible! The Tony Award-nominated revival of Cinderella will take its horse-drawn carriage on a national tour during the 2014-15 season.

In the classic movie "The Sound of Music," one of the popular songs is "Maria." Sung by the nuns, they ponder what to do with the meaning well, but sometimes troublesome, Maria, played by Julie Andrews.

The second annual touring Czech That Film Festival makes a pit stop at Los Angeles, bringing seven films over five days between today and June 3. Starting off the festival is writer-director Zdenek Jirasky with his first feature, Flower Buds , at the Billy Wilder Theater .

In this month's book list offered by Noe Valley librarians Susan Higgins and Catherine Starr, you will find a posthumous novel by singer Woody Guthrie, the Nolo guide to maximizing retirement, and a treasury of songs selected by actress Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.