Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria (1995)

Genres - Musical, Music, Comedy  |   Sub-Genres - Screwball Comedy  |   Run Time - 150 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Synopsis by Tracie Cooper

This filmed stage production of Victor/Victoria came to be through the collaboration of director Blake Edwards and his wife, singer and actress Julie Andrews. Andrews reprises her role as a female pretending to be a male who is impersonating a female, while Edwards once again directs. As with the 1982 film and 1996 Broadway productions of Victor/Victoria, Andrews' character rises through the entertainment circuit by means of her unique gimmick, leaving a Chicago gangster and the rest of her audience thoroughly confused about her true sexuality and its implications. Filmed shortly before her vocal chords were unfortunately injured, this production of Victor/Victoria marks the last musical performance by Andrews prior to the damage incurred to her singing voice after undergoing subsequent surgery.

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impersonation, nightclub, con/scam, cross-dressing, gangster, role-switching, homosexual