Late for Verses Thursday

[serai]

I was just watching my DVD of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, a show that I've loved since I was a little girl and waited for it to be shown once a year on television.

Here are the lyrics of a lovely waltz from it. Seemed appropriate in this post-ORC period:


Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?


Do I love you because you're beautiful
Or are you beautiful because I love you?

Am I making believe I see in you a man too
perfect to be really true?

Do I want you because you're wonderful
Or are you wonderul because I want you?

Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream
Or are you really as beautiful as you seem?

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[serai1.livejournal.com]

I just rented the DVD of the original Julie Andrews production which was televised once in 1957 and then never shown again. I didn't like it! The songs were all the same, and the performances were fine, but the script was very different. Some rather ungainly humor, and the whole thing wasn't nearly as elegant as the 1960's version starring Lesley Ann Warren.