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My Fair Lady
Tuesday 28th January to Saturday 8th February, 1969
at York Theatre Royal
Music by Frederick Loewe, Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabrial Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion.
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.
Directed by Leslie Branch. |
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Photography by Madame Beryl Ltd. |
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