Ready or not, 23-year-old Hepburn faced the Broadway crowd on November 24, 1951. Director Raymond Rouleau ordered his leading lady to get it together. Hepburn, who kept late hours with then-fiancé Jimmy Hanson, garbled lines and was “giving a reading of the part instead of playing it on feeling,” according to Alexander Walker in Audrey: Her Story. When Hepburn arrived in New York via boat from England, Miller discovered his rising star had gained weight. The overwhelmed ingénue got asthma attacks. Initially, Hepburn’s projection was so bad, co-star Cathleen Nesbitt could barely hear her from the stalls. “Whatever she did, she stood out.” There was only one problem: Young Audrey Hepburn had never spoken onstage.Īudrey Hepburn's grace arrived gradually… “She seemed to have a line drawn around her, the way some only children have,” Loos later said. “Voilà ma Gigi!” she reportedly exclaimed to her husband. When wheelchair-bound Colette was being pushed along the Monaco seafront, she spotted a waifish beauty wearing a one-piece black swimsuit. ![]() Colette’s big influence was the 1926 marriage of 18-year-old ballerina Yola Henriquez to the 58-year-old Henri Letellier, editor of Le Journal.Ī popular book means one thing: adaptations! After a 1949 French film, a Broadway play by Anita Loos ( Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) followed. ![]() In the 1944 novelette, a young Parisian courtesan (read: fancy prostitute) learns the family trade from her grandmother and great-aunt and ends up with the older Gaston. Before you thank heaven for little girls, read the story of Gigi.īefore Leslie Caron and Vanessa Hudgens, Gigi began with another famous woman: Colette. That, however, is a small part of the story. ![]() Get ready for a new twist on an old favorite, as Gigi officially opens April 8 at the Neil Simon Theatre! Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, and Corey Cott star in the highly anticipated musical, which took close to a decade to get to the Great White Way.
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