JULIE ANDREWS - JUST YOU WAIT

JUST YOU WAIT

JULIE ANDREWS

SONGWRITER: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MY FAIR LADY

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1956

 

       Dame Julie Andrews(born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. She has also received three Tony Award nominations. Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991, and has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. In 2000, Andrews was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.

       Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend(1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna", she rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady(1956) playing Eliza Doolittle and Camelot (1960) playing Queen Guinevere. On 31 March 1957, Andrews starred in the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's written-for-television musical Cinderella, a live, colour CBS network broadcast seen by over 100 million viewers. Andrews made her feature film debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins(1964) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. The following year she starred in the musical film The Sound of Music(1965), playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

         Between 1964 and 1986, Andrews starred in various films working with directors including her husband Blake Edwards, George Roy Hill, and Alfred Hitchcock. Films she starred in include The Americanization of Emily(1964), Hawaii(1966), Torn Curtain(1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967), Star!(1968), The Tamarind Seed(1974), 10(1979), S.O.B.(1981), Victor/Victoria(1982), That's Life!(1986), and Duet for One(1986). After 1986 her workload decreased, appearing in two films in 1991 and not again until 2000. After the turn of the new millennium, however, her career had a revival. She gained a younger following starring in The Princess Diaries(2001), The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) as well as Eloise at the Plaza, and Eloise at Christmastime(both 2003). She also lent her voice for the English dub of the Italian animated film The Singing Princess(1949, her first venture into voice-over work), the Shrek franchise and the Despicable Me franchise(2010-present).(…)

       My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockneyflower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins falls in love with her.

        The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London production. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions. Many revivals have followed, and the 1964 film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Just you wait, Henry Higgins, just you wait

You'll be sorry but your tears will be too late

You'll be broke and I'll have money

Will I help you, don't be funny

Just you wait, Henry Higgins, just you wait

Just you wait, Henry Higgins 'till you're sick

And you screams to fetch a doctor double quick

I'll be off a second later

And go straight to the theater

Oh oh oh, Henry Higgins, just you wait

Ooh, Henry Higgins

Just you wait until we're swimming in the sea

Ooh, Henry Higgins

And you get a cramp a little way from me

When you yell you're going to drown

I'll get dressed and go to town

Oh oh oh, Henry Higgins, oh oh oh, Henry Higgins

Just you wait

One day I'll be famous, I'll be proper and prim

Go to St. James so often I shall call it St. Jim

One evening the King will say Eliza, old thing

I want all of England your praises to sing

Next week on the 20th of May

I proclaim Eliza Doolittle Day

All the people will celebrate the glory of you

And whatever you wish and want I gladly will do

Thanks a lot, King, says I, in a manner well bred

But all I want is Henry Higgins' Head

Done, says the king with stroke

Guard, run and bring in the bloke

Then they'll march you, Henry Higgins, to the wall

And the king will tell Eliza, sound the call

As they lift their rifles higher

I'll shout ready, aim, fire

Oh oh oh, Henry Higgins

Down you'll go, Henry Higgins

Just you wait.