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 Jean
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Ask and you shall receive (question eight):
broadway.com Q&A
|  Jarred1286
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Okay, I understand the whole thing about not being nominated, but can anyone explain to me....that if you are nominated and win, why on earth would you decline your tony award like andrews did for Victor/Victoria????????
Some People....
If Bernadette Lazzara hadn't become an actress, what might she have done?
Bernadette:I don't know. Probably shot herself! (Laughs)
|  moljul
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| posted: 8/11/2004 at 1:47:26 PM ET
Julie Andrews was very upset that no one else in the company of Victor/Victoria was nominated. I think she was particularly upset that her husband, Blake Edwards, was not nominated as Victor/Victoria was his creation. So in an effort to show support for the snub to the rest of the company, she declined the award and refused to even show up at the ceremony.
| Jean
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In Julie's own words:
"CNN - Julie Andrews snubs nomination - May 9, 1996
Tony tussle: Julie Andrews snubs nomination
From Correspondent Cynthia Tornquist
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Julie Andrews has never won a Tony Award, and if she has anything to say about it, this year won't be any different. On Wednesday, the actress dramatically rejected a nomination for her role in "Victor/Victoria."
"I have searched my conscience and my heart and find that, sadly, I cannot
accept this nomination," Andrews told an audience following curtain calls. She
would prefer, she said, to stand with 'the egregiously overlooked.'
Andrews' announcement came just days after the Tony nominating committee released its list of nominees for this year's Broadway awards ceremony.
Andrews was the only nomination for the nearly $9 million musical "Victor/Victoria."
The show is a stage adaptation of the 1982 film of the same name, which also
starred Andrews and was written and directed by her husband, Blake Edwards.
Asked if he and others tried to talk Andrews out of her decision, show producer Tony Adams said, "We played devil's advocate in terms of every scenario, in terms of the upside and downside. At the end of the day (we) left
it to her."
The Tony tussle has called the nominating system into question. 'There is no
scandal here,' said Jed Bernstein, of the League of American Theatres & Producers. 'The nominations committee wasn't caught using drugs, the ballots
were not miscounted. The issue is that the taste of these fourteen people differs from what's called the popular taste.'
If nothing else, Andrews will be there in name. Tony Awards spokesman Keith
Sherman said her name will remain on the ballot. 'She's been nominated and the nomination will stand.' "
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The way I understand this situation, Julie didn't WIN the Tony but was nominated; she declined the NOMINATION, never had the chance to decline the AWARD, because:
Donna Murphy received a "Best Actress in a Musical" Tony for "The King and I".
| moljul
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| posted: 8/11/2004 at 2:50:51 PM ET
You are absolutely right. It was the nomination not the award she rejected. Though I think she had a pretty good chance of winning it if she had accepted the nomination.
| jmslsu01
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Jarred-
Perhaps you are thinking of Marlon Brando,who did decline an award he won (an Oscar)?
Jenn
| Jarred1286
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nope.....theres no mistaking two actors of such calibar. But when JA was on Larry King a couple years ago, it showed the clip of her wearing the La Jazz Hot costume announcing to an audience that she couldnt accept the nomination (or award as i remember it).......my mind just may have added a few things but it looked like she was HOLDING a tony....and i figured maybe she was performing at the TA and then the next category was Best Actress in a musical.....i know that clip is out there because i've seen it....i just dont remember it too well.....
Some People....
If Bernadette Lazzara hadn't become an actress, what might she have done?
Bernadette:I don't know. Probably shot herself! (Laughs)
| jmslsu01
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Can't help you there,Jarred-I'm not sure what you saw. Donna Murphy won that year. Julie Andrews gave a press conference at the theatre (where V/V was playing)saying she would not accept the award if she won,and that might be the clip you saw. She did not go to the awards ceremony.
Jenn
|  Sister Rose
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Speaking of Dame Julie, I saw "Princess Diaries 2" last night (yes I am a sucker for teeny bopper mushy flics). Julie "sings/speaks" in it. Her voice will probably never be completely back but it was good to hear her singing again. The movie was FUN!
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
| moljul
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| posted: 8/12/2004 at 11:11:54 PM ET
I just got back from seeing PD II and it was cute. Yes, a bit precious and preditable but sweet just the same. And hearing Julie Andrews "sing" was wonderful. No, its not the same voice she used to have but it was still wonderful.
By the way, the little "princess" that dances at the slumber party during the singing segment is Julie Andrews' granddaughter. 
|  Rose
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| posted: 8/13/2004 at 6:02:51 AM ET
Is PD 2 out now? I'm a little behind what happened to Julie Andrews' voice?
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
| Jean
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**WARNING-THIS IS AN OFF TOPIC POST**
Julie Andrews had a operation which pretty much ended her singing career--I think it was for vocal cord polyps or nodules; from today's New York Daily News:
"Andrews, 68, has finally settled her malpractice suit against the two doctors and hospital in which she underwent the 1996 throat operation that virtually destroyed her four-octave singing voice.
Through it all, Andrews has maintained, at least publicly, a sunny outlook.
'Will I ever completely come to terms with not singing? I don't know,' she says. 'I miss it very much indeed. For a long time I was fairly optimistic, hoping it would just take time. It's been eight years now.' "
Here's another part of an article from the Toronto Star, June 14, 2002 (there are loads more articles about this if anyone is curious-I used Lexis/Nexis):
"In 1997, Andrews underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous throat nodules, and the operation left her unable to sing. Claiming she hadn't been warned of the surgery's risks, the performer sued two doctors and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount."
1996 or 1997? Different articles give different dates but I don't suppose it matters for this discussion.
| Rose
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| posted: 8/13/2004 at 9:25:25 AM ET
Thanks.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
| Jarred1286
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I'm sick of these articles that say her voice is gone. Thats like saying BP's voice is wrecked because she played Momma Rose. Yeah, Andrews may not be able to sing like she USED to, but she can still carry a tune.....just lightly
Some People....
If Bernadette Lazzara hadn't become an actress, what might she have done?
Bernadette:I don't know. Probably shot herself! (Laughs)
| moljul
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| posted: 8/13/2004 at 12:22:19 PM ET
Actually Jared, I think Julie herself would say her voice is pretty much gone. She has a VERY limited range and can do very few things with it. I don't even think she can sing all that long. Maybe one song and then she has to rest her voice or it becomes very hoarse. She has been really down playing her singing this song in Princess Diaries because she doesn't want to lead people to believe that her voice is returning. She does not consider herself to have any sort of a professional voice left.
She did state once that her current voice might be usable in singing jazz songs and she was supposedly trying to learn how to sing this genre as she has never sung them before. Maybe this is a career opportunity for her but the damage was extensive and truly irreversible. 
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