Schlesinger Theatre with
Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. and in association with St
Anne’s Diocesan College will present My Fair
Lady. The
production will be directed by William le Cordeur and runs from August 16 to 19 at Michaelhouse.
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s
motion picture, Pygmalion, the
musical has book and lyrics by Alan
Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
My Fair Lady is considered one of the greatest American musicals of all
time; it’s sometimes even called the perfect musical! Set in London in 1912 in
the time of the suffragettes, the height of the British Empire, class struggle,
Victorian morality and music hall, this musical has warmed the hearts of
theatre-loving families for generations.
Eliza Doolittle is a poor cockney flower seller who meets
the upper-class professional bachelor Henry Higgins, a world famous phonetics
expert. She offers to pay him to teach her to speak proper English, as he has
suggested the difference in class is simply perceived by the way in which
people talk. A famous love story begins with not only one song of love, but
many an argument, and a completely honest story of people. We are, after all,
equal in our inequality, and although it may cause much conflict, there is no
story more healing than this one.
“My
Fair Lady helps
us to understand that humans deserve each other and that love is the equaliser.
Once again the talented young ladies of St Anne’s Diocesan College team up with
Michaelhouse to bring you a world class musical under the magical musical
direction of Abri Venter, and staring two of his sons. You are guaranteed a
musical triumph and a theatrical delight” says le Cordeur.
My Fair Lady has one show on August 16 at 14h00,
thereafter running from August 17 to 19 at 19h30 in the Schlesinger Theatre,
Michaelhouse. Tickets R120 booked through Mrs Angela Jonsson at theatre@michaelhouse.org
or phone 033 234 1314 (weekdays
between 08h00 and 13h00)
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