Often coming off as the epitome of refinement, regal Broadway enchantress Mary Martin actually erred toward the darkly mischievous as a creative type on occasion. For instance, she was the first to give voice to the saucy, sexually adventurous My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Cole Porter’s 1938 musical Leave it to Me! Her take on To Keep My Love Alive, Morgan le Fay’s smart confession of romantic murder making from Rodgers & Hart’s A Connecticut Yankee, is also loads of devilish, eye winking fun. 

On a lavender note, the witty lyrics comprising le Fay’s arch confessions are written by the truly unforgettable Lorenz Hart. Tortured by what he thought was his unfailing unattractiveness, the homosexual Hart drank himself to death by the early age of 48. Thankfully, loads of his insanely creative songs live on to this day. 

Martin, meanwhile, had her own sewing circle stories. She was long rumored to have carried on a decades-long affair with Academy Award winning actress Janet Gaynor. Reports from contemporaries, emerging after her death in 1990 at the age of 76, confirm this secret – allowing for a portrait of a performer who truly knew her way around complex dualities. Thus, we believe both her María, The Sound of Music’s heroic novice, and her much darker, horror movie ready le Fay.

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