NDCL presented
My Fair Lady this year for their spring musical in the Pat and Janet O'Brien Center for the Performing Arts, featuring the Sam J. Frankino Stage.
This Broadway classic, which won six Tony Awards, depicts the transformation of a cockney flower girl by a phonetics professor in London in the early nineteenth century. The delightful story unfolds through famous show tunes such as
Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, The Rain in Spain, Get Me to the Church on Time, and
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
NDCL's production features
Marissa Webb as Eliza Doolittle,
Tom Fogarty as Professor Henry Higgins,
Carter Callender as Alfred Doolittle,
Zach Smith as Colonel Pickering,
Briana Cowman as Mrs. Pearce, and
Tad Brennan as Freddy. The entire cast, crew, and orchestra include more than 45 students.
Alan Jay Lerner wrote the play's book and lyrics, and Frederick Loewe composed the musical score. My Fair Lady was adapted from Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and a motion picture by Gabriel Pascals.
Performing Arts Department chairperson Ms. Shirley Ivancic Stall directs the production. Assisting Ms. Ivancic Stall are music teacher Mr. Adam Pysell, musical director; Family and Consumer Sciences chairperson Mrs. Mary Wheelock, costuming, hair, and make-up; and science teacher Miss Melissa Parey, production manager.
My Fair Lady is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022.