I've linked you to pieces of this before but I don't think I've ever linked to the entire thing…or to the show in color, for that matter. If you're interested in theater, this is a much-watch. It may be the best video I've ever embedded here.
In 1962, Norman Jewison produced and directed a wonderful one-hour TV special about the work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. It was hosted by Maurice Chevalier and featured Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet and Stanley Holloway. This aired on 2/11/62 when Lerner and Loewe were represented on Broadway by My Fair Lady — it closed in September of that year — and Camelot, which ran until the following January. I believe Burton had just departed the cast of Camelot when this special aired while Andrews and Goulet followed soon after.
I mention this because I believe that the musical numbers in this show were authentic re-creations of what was on the stage with those two shows using the same sets, costumes and staging…and probably the singers and dancers who were then in those productions. Mr. Holloway, for instance, performs "Get Me to the Church On Time" the same way (I bet) he did in on stage a few years earlier in New York.
Ms. Andrews performs "Show Me," also from My Fair Lady. Mr. Burton performs the end of Act I from Camelot. Mr. Goulet sings a song from Paint Your Wagon (which he was not in) and there are all sorts of other numbers, some of them a bit too "modern" for their own good. Make sure you watch the charming section where Mr. Chevalier sings songs from musicals he wasn't in.
And check out the sketch which was obviously written by Lerner, who famously complained about the kind of theatrical rabble depicted. The lady in it is Frances Sternhagen and you'll also recognize a very young Charles Nelson Reilly who at the time was featured on Broadway in the original production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
But watch the whole thing because the whole hour is really a video treasure…