My Fair Lady

Friday 05 September

Season continues until 21 September

Artscape Opera House

The CPO performs during the G&S production of Lerner and Loewe's ever-popular musical My Fair Lady

Conductor: Alastair Cockburn

Following recent successes with revivals of The Sound of Music, The King And I, Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof, G&S present Lerner and Loewe's acclaimed musical My Fair Lady at the Artscape Opera House.

Ralph Lawson will direct, with musical direction by Alastair Cockburn and choreography by Kyla Thorburn. Acclaimed designer Dicky Longhurst will create a new set and new costumes and the cast will be accompanied by the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in such memorable numbers as Wouldn't it be luvverly, 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.

Based on G B Shaw's Pygmalion, the rags-to-riches tale (with a twist) is of Eliza Doolittle, a poor Cockney flower seller who is transformed into a duchess by an irascible professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins.  It is a popular favourite that has delighted successive generations of theatre-goers since it first opened in 1959.  It has garnered numerous Broadway and West End awards, including a Laurence Olivier for the 2001 London revival. 

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