Today in the ArtZany Radio studio Paula Granquist welcomes director Sebastian Lawler and actors Birch Carlson (Eliza Doolittle) and Dan Stephans (Henry Higgins) from the Northfield Arts Guild production of My Fair Lady.
My Fair Lady, Lerner & Loew’s Musical Comedy, Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street West, October 18 – November 3. Fridays & Saturdays @7:30, Sundays @ 2PM (post-show discussion Sunday, October 27). Director: Sebastian Lawler, Musical Director: Kristin Kivell.
Hailed by critics and audiences for its heart and its wit, My Fair Lady is a much loved musical about transformation, patronage, gender politics and class, based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion. Acclaimed Professor and confirmed bachelor Henry Higgins makes a wager with his linguistic colleague Colonel Pickering that in six months he can pass off “gutter snipe” Eliza Doolittle as a duchess at an embassy ball.Through arduous training, day and night, Eliza convinces a supposed linguistics expert that she is royalty. Through her transformation process, Eliza forges a deep connection with Colonel Pickering and most especially with Professor Higgins. However, she finds herself in a difficult position, now too “refined” to go back to her old life and not with any means or desire to live life as a lady of leisure.
