Does anyone know which of the black dresses in BAT that is being sold?
Whichever it is, it's nice to know it will benefit a good cause. :)
Speaking of the little black dress, I recently read a novel about Coco
Chanel, inventor of the little black dress, and Igor Stravinsky. At
the end of the book there was a biographical timeline of both their
lives and according to that, Coco Chanel would have liked Audrey to
play her in the musical about her life. She didn't get her wish, but
her choice indicates that she admired Audrey. :)

Says the book:
1969 -- Coco, a musical version of Chanel's life, appears on Broadway
with libretto by Alan Jay Lerner, music by André Previn and costumes
by Cecil Beaton. The septuagenarian Katharine Hepburn is engaged to
play Chanel. Coco, in suggesting 'Hepburn' for the role, had meant the
much younger 'Audrey'. Instead of covering, as promised, the 1920s and
1930s, the musical fashions a saccharine version of a
seventy-year-old's comeback. Pandering to American audiences, the
scenario suggests erroneously that it was an American designer who
helped her make the cruicial decision to return to work. With a budget
of $900,000 and a mirrored set, the show is the most expensive in
Broadway history. Coco hates it. The reviews are lukewarm. Plans for a
film by Paramount are shelved.



--- In audreysplace2@yahoogroups.com, "imnxtc3663" <imnxtc3663@...> wrote:
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> --- In audreysplace2@yahoogroups.com, audreyfave <no_reply@> wrote:
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> > $130,000! WOW! i'm glad it's going to a good cause. it might have been
> > what audrey would have wanted.
> >
> i believe it would have been, she did so much for unicef.
>