NEW YORK - Julie Andrews is coming back to "The Boy Friend." The actress made her Broadway debut in 1954 in Sandy Wilson's spoof of giddy 1920s musical comedy, and now she is directing a revival of the show.
Andrews is overseeing a production that will open next summer at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., and then travel the country. In the original New York production, she played Polly Browne, an English heiress who falls in love with a delivery boy who turns out to be the son of a wealthy nobleman.
The Goodspeed version will play July 15-Sept. 24, 2005, in Connecticut and then tour, beginning in Wilmington, Del., followed by Boston, Greenville, S.C., Hershey, Pa., East Lansing, Mich., Chicago, Green Bay, Wis., St. Paul and more cities to be announced later.
Andrews, best known for starring on Broadway in "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot" as well as in such movie musicals as "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music," first directed "The Boy Friend" last summer in Sag Harbor, N.Y., at the Bay Street Theater, which is run by her daughter, Emma Walton.
Sets and costumes for the new production of "The Boy Friend" will be designed by Andrews' ex-husband, Tony Walton.
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