I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

The same year Julie Andrews made her debut as a theatre director directing a revival of The Boy Friend the musical in which Julie Andrews made her 1954 Broadway debut at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor New York. On 21 May 2010 her film Shrek Forever After was released; in it Andrews reprises her role as the Queen. "Mandy: 35th Anniversary Edition".

In 1957 Julie Andrews appeared on television with the title role in Cinderella which was seen by over 100 million viewers. In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success this time as a stage director with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre Sag Harbor New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam Connecticut in 2005). Andrews is also an author of children's books and in 2008 publiJulie Andrewsd an autobiography Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.