Victor, Victoria Broadway Musical (1995) Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts

Julie Andrews Is Back, in Drag, in Drag By VINCENT CANBY )OCT. 26, 1995) Thirteen years have passed since Blake Edwards made his cinematic chef d oeuvre, Victor, Victoria, but as far as Julie Andrews is concerned, 13 years is no more than the blink of an eye. Ms. Andrews is reprising her most enchanting screen role, that of a woman who plays a man who plays a woman, thus to become the toast of 1930 s Paris as a female impersonator. At 60, Ms. Andrews looks terrific and sings with a sweet purity not heard on Broadway since she last played the street in That was more than 30 years ago. Even as today s usually invidious sound amplification equipment can t distort her voice, time has made no dent in her immaculate appearance and diction, and in her grandly funny stage presence. There s no mistaking her vitality in the middle of the first act: dressed in spangles from head to toe, her legs showing up to here, she tears into an elaborate sing br, br,