Director
Julie Andrews

Musical numbers
Lesley Bricusse and Henry Mancini

Performers
Victor/Victoria : Julie Andrews
Toddy : Tony Roberts
King Marchand : Michael Nouri
Norma : Lesley Ann Warren


Paris, 1930-something. English singer Victoria Grant is looking for a job - without success. Until, that is, she meets Carroll 'Toddy' Todd, a young man in a nightclub. They reinvent her as 'Count Victor Grazinski', a male drag act who makes a very convincing woman. The new act is a hit, but when a Chicago mobster on holiday suspects what's going on, and falls in love with the woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, things get even more complicated...

This witty and engaging story of gender identity and misconception has been through as many guises as the heroine. It first appeared in 1933 as a German film, written by Reinhold Schünzel and titled Victor und Viktoria. In 1982, Blake Edwards (who happened to be married to Julie Andrews) made it into a feature film. In 1995, it became a Broadway stage show, with musical numbers by Henry Mancini (who died in 1994) and Leslie Bricusse, and additional musical material by Frank Wildhorn. This is a recording, made in 1999, of that 1995 stage version.