Directed by: Rick Grossman
Music Director: Markus Hauck
Choreographer: Jennifer DeVane
Fridays & Saturdays May 18, 19, 25, 26 @ 8pm Sundays May 20 & 27 @ 3pm Tickets: $20 Adults, $15 Seniors, Children, Students under 21 @ St. Patrick’s Auditorium ( 97th St. & 4th Ave.)
Eliza Doolittle : Ashley Harris
Henry Higgins : John Hailey
Alfred P. Doolittle : Al Whidden
Colonel Pickering : Cliff Hesse
Freddy Eynsford-Hill : Kevin Quill
Mrs. Higgins : Dawn Barry Hansen
Mrs. Pearce : Julia Dimant
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill : Pat Knutsen
Harry / Zoltan Karpathy : Ron Galluccio
Jamie : William Doyle
This show is the standard by which all others are measured. Based on Shaw’s play and Pascal’s movie “Pygmalion,” with book, music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, MY FAIR LADY is triumphant. With Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face it’s no wonder everyone-not just Henry Higgins-falls in love with Eliza Doolittle.
My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a well born lady.
The musical’s 1956 Broadway production was a hit, setting what was then the record for the longest run of any major musical theatre production in history. It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals. It has been called “the perfect musical”