Julie Andrews' famous singing voice ruined by throat operation "The operation that I had left me without a voice and without a certain piece of my vocal chords," said Andrews, who has starred in several quintessential stage and film musicals including My Fair Lady. Her latest children's book, "Little Bo in London: The Ultimate Adventure of Bonnie Boadicea" has just been released by Harper Collins. It's the fourth and final book in the series about a possibly magical ship's cat that travels the world with the man who rescued her. It's the 27th book she's co-written with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. She's also directing a musical theatre adaptation of another of her books, "The Great American Mousical." The show, about a troop of acting mice living beneath the floors of a famous Broadway theatre, is being performed at the Goodspeed Theatre in Connecticut through Sunday. Andrews thinks it "would do very well on Broadway," where she says she would like to direct and produce. Andrews says in a strange way that she feels fortunate that she no longer can sing because it pushed her to find a "different way" of using her voice. Paraphrasing a line from her Sound of Music character Maria von Trapp, Andrews noted that "When one door closes another window opens."