Sixteen Going on Seventeen

I'd always wanted to see this delightful scene from The Sound of Music played by a couple of gay men - and whaddaya know, somebody else finally had the same thought.  Here are Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Jay Armstrong Johnson flawlessly performing the scene at the Broadway Backwards benefit in 2017.  Both were about 30 at the time.  Johnson, the taller one, is a Texas native and rather studly, too.  Enjoy.

For comparison, here's the lovely 1965 original, played by Charmian Carr and Daniel Truhitte:

What I Say:  The lyrics don't quite work between two boys, though it's all in good fun.  But I dare say, they wouldn't work between a boy and a girl either, in this modern age.  For a couple of generations now, girls have been raised to be as tough and indpendent as boys.  How well that has succeeded, others may judge.

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Sunday Drive: Cinderella

The heat has finally broken here - it was up to 100 on Tuesday, but last night it was down to 50 degrees here in Texas. The summer is rapidly fading away, but its sunny dreams live on.

You could do worse than to spend part of your Sunday watching the 21-year-old (!) Julie Andrews perform the title role in Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, broadcast live on March 31, 1957, over CBS and viewed by 107 million people - over half the population of the United States, an extraordinary event.

This clip contains one of your Head Trucker's favorites: "In My Own Little Corner." If you want to continue on with the whole show, the playlist feature should automatically take you through all the segments. Enjoy.