i got this one while surfing USA TOADY. it was an article in 2002.
though a little bit old, it's interesting!

Andrews, Plummer make beautiful 'Music' at tribute

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

Who better to host a tribute to the late, great musical-theater
composer Richard Rodgers than the stars of the most beloved film
adaptation of a Rodgers work?
That was obviously the logic behind tapping Christopher Plummer and
Julie Andrews, who played the Captain and Maria von Trapp in the
1965 movie The Sound of Music, to act as master and mistress of
ceremonies at The Richard Rodgers Centennial ¡ª A Juilliard
Celebration.
The show, which takes place Monday night at Manhattan's Juilliard
Theater, is among a wide array of events commemorating the 100th
anniversary of Rodgers' birth this year. It is also a benefit for
the Juilliard School, the world-famous performing arts conservatory
once known as the Institute for Music and Art, where a young Rodgers
studied music theory in the 1920s.
Rodgers later served on Juilliard's Board of Trustees, as does his
daughter, composer and arts advocate Mary Rodgers Guettel, who
recently completed her tenure as board chairwoman and also will be
honored this evening.
Andrews and Plummer, who reunited last year for a live TV
presentation based on the 1981 film On Golden Pond, will be joined
on stage by such theater, screen and cabaret stars as Glenn Close,
Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, Michael Hayden, Karen Ziemba,
Michael Feinstein and Elaine Stritch.
The Juilliard Orchestra and dance students from the school are set
to lend their talents as well.
"Chris and I will just be weaving our way through the evening," says
Andrews, whose easy rapport with Plummer is apparent during a phone
conversation with both veteran performers.
Andrews, who made her name in this country as a star of Broadway
musicals, has a more extensive history with Richard Rodgers' music
than Plummer, who is better known for the non-singing stage roles
that recently earned him the Roundabout Theatre Company's inaugural
Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre. But Plummer insists
that long before he was cast as Captain von Trapp, he had been a fan
of Rodgers' collaborations with both Sound of Music lyricist Oscar
Hammerstein II and earlier partner Lorenz Hart.
"Of all the composers of musicals, Dick Rodgers seemed to have the
most musicality," Plummer notes. "And there was this sort of deeper
humanity to what he did." Andrews concurs: "His melodies are just
exquisite. And I guess he wrote the bulk of the great Broadway music
for Broadway's golden era."
But Andrews adds that she is looking forward to tonight's
benefit "as much to see Christopher as to host the evening." Though
she and Plummer had not worked together professionally in the 36
years between The Sound of Music and On Golden Pond, the two would
always "bump into each other from time to time," Andrews
says. "Certainly, the affection between us has never gone away."
Adds Plummer, fondly, "Working with Julie has become part of nature
for me."