| A different kind of Cinderella story, My Fair Lady tells the tale of Eliza Doolittle, a homely flower girl, who encounters Professor Henry Higgins, an admired—but somewhat crotchety—phoneticist in front of the Royal Opera House in London. Higgins eventually determines to make a project out of transforming the street rat into an elegant, sophisticated socialite. Eliza’s low-brow cockney dialect provides many humorous and frustrating moments as Higgins attempts to teach the young girl to speak with a more refined vocabulary. Victory is accomplished, however, and after many long speaking lessons Eliza is presented to the world as a new woman. This causes Freddy Eynsford-Hill to fall in love with Eliza, and he pines for her while Higgins and his cohort, Colonel Pickering, congratulate themselves on their tremendous success. Eliza becomes upset at their mockery of her and she leaves Higgins’ house to seek advice from the professor’s mother. Higgins soon comes to realize that he has grown to appreciate, perhaps even to love, this transformed flower girl and she returns to Higgins just in time for him to ask, “Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?”
Heralded as one of the greatest musicals of all time, My Fair Lady continues the great tradition of classic musicals at Tuacahn. With some of the most memorable songs from any production to emerge from America’s Golden Age of theatre, as well as an array of deeply engaging characters, My Fair Lady is Broadway in the Desert™ at its finest. Join us and let us transport you to 1912 London to meet an enchanting and loverly lady as only Tuacahn can do it!
About the authors: ALAN JAY LERNER AND FREDERICK LOEWE
One of America’s most prolific songwriting teams, Lerner (1918 – 1986) and Loewe (1901 – 1988) created some of the grandest musicals from Broadway’s Golden Age. Their works include Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), Gigi (1958), and Camelot (1960).
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