Current Show
My Fair Lady
Books and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and Gabrial Pascal's motion picture 'PYGMALION'
to be staged at the Little Theatre, Southport
Saturday 4th October to Saturday 11th October 2008
Director: Les Gomersall
Musical Director: Jeff Rimmer
Choreographer: Mandy Evans
The Story
A Professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins is listening to the various speech patterns of the people outside St Paul's Church in Covent Garden, London. He bumps into an old colleague, Colonel Pickering, who has long admired the work that Higgins has achieved in the field of phonetics.
Overhearing the strong cockney accent of a flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering wagers Higgins that he cannot turn Eliza from a cockney flower girl into a lady who will be accepted by the upper classes as one of their own. Intrigued by the challenge and confident of his own ability, Higgins installs Eliza into his home and proceeds to coach her and try to turn her into the lady that Pickering has challenged.
Songs include Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced all Night, Get Me to the Church on Time and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
Cast List