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...star of a musical might reasonably be expected to be a singer. But not out there. When Audrey Hepburn sings I Could Have Danced All Night in Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady, the voice on the sound track won't be Audrey's. It belongs to Marni Nixon, the ghostess with the mostest. A girl with a rubber range, Marni is a redheaded, blue-eyed lyric soprano who can slip into a contralto and sing in the accents of any unmusical star. She was also the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, of Deborah Kerr...
...Marni gets no credit for this; her Lady contract even forbids her to talk about her work. She did, however, go to bat for a slice of the royalties on the West Side Story album and won her fair share. But, she says, "it gets harder and harder to adapt yourself to the person you're dubbing. Eventually you want to play the character yourself." Last week Marni Nixon was actually mouthing the words as well as singing them. Appearing with the Seattle Symphony in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and the Poulenc-Cocteau short opera, The Human Voice...
...since the composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...
This fourth version of the dependable plot has no surprises. Deborah Kerr, who gets some dubbed-in help on the vocals from Marni Nixon, is both starchy and strong-minded as the British widow brought to Bangkok in the 1860s to teach English and the scientific method to the king's innumerable children. Yul Brynner, in a bare skull and bare feet, plays the Oriental potentate with the same mannered ferocity that he displayed on Broadway during the 1,246 performances of the play's run. About all that Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope...
...Mind Music." Stravinsky used only five instruments-two flutes, an oboe, English horn and cello. A chorus of eight women and two soloists. Mezzo-Soprano Marni Nixon and Tenor Hughes Cuenod, were the only voices. Stravinsky conducted in his usual jerky, graceless style, looking, with his prominent eyes and waving tailcoat, rather like a dapper little Beatrix Potter frog...