Julie Andrews COULD get her voice back

[Brae]

www.broadway.com/buzz/oscar-winner-julie-andrews-voice-may-be-restored-groundbreaking-surgery/

Andrews may be among the first patients to undergo a new surgical treatment developed by Robert Langer of the Massachusettes Institute of Technology and voice specialist Dr. Steven Zeitels. Working together, the pair will remove scar tissue from the vocal cords before injecting a gel called polyethylene glycol to replace it. Designed by Langer and his team, the gel was specially designed to mimic the natural elasticity of vocal cords—no easy feat, considering the substance must be able to vibrate up to 200 times a second to properly produce sound.

[Fantasma da Opera]

I hope this works indeed...'cause I can see a bunch of old musical stars that lost their voices back (and new ones...*coughUwecough* ;D

[santtu]

I wonder if she really will put herself through that. After all, she just turned 74 and the article stated that the surgery "could be made available to patients within two years". If she will go through it, I hope the surgery will be a success and she will get back to what she does so much better than most: singing. She is fab!