my fair lady

Performed Tuesday 8th April - Saturday 12th April 2003

Directed by Andrew Wolden

Musical Direction by Delph Richards

Choreography by Jill Benson

 


The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a coarse little peddler of flowers in Covent Garden who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to fulfill her dream of working in a flower shop. Eliza succeeds so well, however, that she outgrows her social station and even manages to get Higgins to fall in love with her!

 

 


Perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950s, My Fair Lady came into being only after Hungarian film producer Gabriel Pascal devoted the last two years of his life to finding writers who would adapt George Bernard's 1914 play Pygmalion into a musical. Rejected by the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Noël Coward, on the grounds that it was impossible to do, Pascal finally turned to the younger but very talented duo of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner.

My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956 and enjoyed a run of 2,717 performances which lasted more than nine years. The original production featured Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza. The 1964 film version starred Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Audrey Hepburn.

 

 

Eliza Doolittle..........Elizabeth Wolden

Henry Higgins..........Keith Wells

Alfred P Doolittle..........Geoff Fielding

Colonel Pickering..........Geoff Holland

Freddy Eynesford-Hill..........Andrew Wolden

Mrs Pearce..........Carol Bowman

Mrs Higgins..........Joyce Buckingham

Mrs Eynesford-Hill..........Margaret Whyman

 

ACT I
* Overture
* Why Can't The English
* Wouldn't It Be Loverly
* With A Little Bit Of Luck
* I'm An Ordinary Man
* Just You Wait
* The Rain In Spain
* I Could Have Danced All Night
* Ascot Gavotte
* On The Street Where You Live

ACT II
* You Did It
* Show Me
* Show Me Reprise
* Get Me To The Church On Time
* A Hymn To Him
* Without You
* Servant Song
* Servant Song Part 2
* I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face,
* The Embassy Waltz
* Just You Wait Reprise