My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a charming and cute musical insight into class divides, which follows the bet wagered by linguistics-pert, Professor Higgins, he can coach the cockney tones out of flower girl Eliza’s voice. Why? Well, to turn her from a “guttersnipe” into a “lady”, of course, who could impress even her Majesty with her command of the Queen’s English!
The lovely Dame Julie Andrews played the lead in this musical’s first theatrical production so to have her very own great niece, Rosie Evans, playing the lead of Eliza Doolittle was exciting with a capital E.
And how did she fare? Brilliantly. Cheeky, warm, and ‘real’ Evans played Eliza deliciously well. Add a beautiful voice that audience members kept commenting on and she did her Nan proud!
All of the key cast were, as Eliza would have put it “top class”. They even looked like their original counterparts, which was a tad uncanny. Support was also strong from a fab set of extras that tapped, waltzed and sung their roles with ease. The costumes too were stunning to the point that we could have been at a couture show.
Add a picturesque set, accomplished live orchestra and you had to pinch yourself that this really was, in fact, an ‘amateur company’ also know as our very own Brighton Theatre Company. Bravo!
My Fair Lady, 2-9 June 2009. Theatre Royal, New Road, Brighton.
Tel:08700 602516 or see www.ambassadortickets.com/brighton
