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From the moment "My Fair Lady" opened at the Walton Arts Center on Tuesday night, Shereen Ahmed was the center of attention. While she wasn't as boisterous as Audrey Hepburn in the iconic role of the Cockney flower seller, she held her own against Laird Mackintosh's delightfully arrogant Professor Henry Higgins. In an interview with What's Up!, she said that one of the things that she admired about Eliza was that "she is her own engine," which you could see before the first bars of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly." While we're on the subject, the trio who harmonize at the...

What did our critic think of MY FAIR LADY at The Orpheum Theatre Memphis? My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Lowe. The story centers around Cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle, who becomes Professor Henry Higgin's 'experiment' in phonetics but quickly proves to Higgins and to the audiences that she is quite more and is more of a lady than anyone can originally see. If you enjoy the 'Golden Age' of musicals, this one is not to be missed.

CHICAGO—Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein turned down the opportunity to adapt George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 “Pygmalion” ...

Having wowed Perth with their debut production of The Producers last year, Alexandra Theater was happy to go large again- perhaps even larger- and brought out theater icon MY FAIR LADY for their winter production. With wonderful period costumes, a huge and varied set and a large cast of talented performers, they perfectly staged this classic.

Director Bartlett Sher’s staging turns away from the rom-com aesthetic that defined both the 1956 Broadway debut and the 1964 movie.