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In jazz-age Paris, singer Victoria Grant struggles to make ends meet. With some help from her flamboyant friend Toddy, Victoria ultimately achieves stardom by masquerading as a man, "Count Victor Grazinski," who performs as a female impersonator. When macho businessman King Marchan develops feelings for "Victor" and Victoria reciprocates, comic ...
Victor/Victoria is a musical with a book by Blake Edwards, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and additional musical material (music and lyrics) by Frank Wildhorn. It is based on the 1982 film of the same name, which was a remake of the German film comedy Viktor und Viktoria shot by Reinhold Schünzel in 1933 from his own script.
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Jul 1, 2022 · Edwards based his film on Reinhold Schünzel’s 1933 German comedy Victor and Victoria, which combines mannered humor with Busby Berkeley–inspired stage numbers. Though the film retains hints of the source material’s Weimar-era Berlin permissiveness, Victor/Victoria is as much about the contemporary times in which it was made, drawing parallels between pre–World War II European sexual ...
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Victor/Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Tony Adams and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
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Oct 21, 2020 · Victor/Victoria logo art, c. 1982, Box 517 / Folder 10, Henry Mancini Papers, Music Division. From the soft accordion playing you in with “Crazy World,” perfectly setting the scene of a 1934 Paris street, to Julie Andrews belting her heart out and shattering glass in “Le Jazz Hot” and “Shady Dame from Seville,” the music from the ...
Synopsis. When refined British soprano Victoria Grant finds herself down on her luck in Paris, she discovers to her dismay that producers and nightclub owners are looking for a sound that is much less “legitimate” than hers. On the brink of starvation, she is rescued by Toddy, a warm, generous, and flamboyant nightclub singer, who gets a ...
Oct 25, 1995 · Victor/Victoria. A Musical Comedy in Two Acts, 16 Scenes. Book by Blake Edwards. (Based on the musical film of the same name, screenplay by Blake Edwards, which. was based on the German Ufa film "Viktor und Viktoria" conceived by Hans Hoemburg and written by Rheinhold Schuenzer.) Music by Henry Mancini.
