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SCOTT SIMON, Host: This is "Weekend Edition". I'm Scott Simon. You know, we men of the Age of Aquarius don't want very much really, just to meet a woman who's as dotty as Eliza Doolittle and delightful as Mary Poppins, someone with the dignity of Queen Guinevere but the diverting mischievousness of Maria Von Trapp, someone like say Julie Andrews, whose portrayed and personified all of those roles and a good many more. In her new recording, Broadway - The Music of Richard Rodgers, Ms. Andrews reworks some standards from the song book of that great composer including a truly beguiling version of this favorite Mr. Rodgers wrote with Lorenz Hart.
(CLIP FROM `BROADWAY - THE MUSIC OF RICHARD RODGERS')
SIMON: Steady now. Julie Andrews joins us now from our studios in New York City. Ms. Andrews, thanks very much for being with us.
JULIE ANDREWS: Hi, Scott. Nice to hello.
SIMON: And happy birthday. You had one recently, right?
MS. ANDREWS: Yes, I certainly did. Thank you for remembering.
SIMON: People can be flabbergasted at how young you still are because you were astonishingly young when you starred in My Fair Lady.
MS. ANDREWS: Yes. Well, actually, I came to Broadway, believe it or not, in 1954 to do a show called A Boyfriend. And I was very, very green and very young at the time, yes.
SIMON: And you were- was it you were 20 or 21 with My Fair Lady?
MS. ANDREWS: Yep. With both companies, the New York and the London productions, I guess I was in the show for about three and a half years, which is a long endurance test, but it's also maybe the best learning experience one could have.
SIMON: There are a number of questions I've scrawled down to ask you that come under the category of `while I have the chance' because I'll never have the chance again.
MS. ANDREWS: I see, OK.
SIMON: While I have the chance, I know or I have read that the late Audrey Hepburn was a good friend of yours.
MS. ANDREWS: Yes.
SIMON: But were you hurt out of joint when she received the role in the movie version of My Fair Lady?
MS. ANDREWS: I swear...