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June 2, 2008

Have a ‘loverly’ time at MDT

‘My Fair Lady’ to be performed in Hillsboro

STAFF REPORT

HILLSBORO, Ind. — Myers Dinner Theatre in Hillsboro will present the Lerner and Loewe classic “My Fair Lady,” starting this weekend through June 28.

There will be evening performances on Fridays and Saturdays, matinees on Saturdays and Sundays, and two weekday matinees on June 24 and 26.

The musical, adapted from the George Bernard Shaw play and the Gabrial Pascal motion picture “Pygmalion,” is set in London in 1912. Henry Higgins boasts he can turn a common flower girl with a barely-comprehensible Cockney dialect into a beautiful young woman people will assume is a duchess.

Eliza Doolittle is transformed into a young woman not only of grace and beauty, but of strong character and impeccable speech. She becomes someone Henry can grow quite accustomed to and dependent upon.

The original production of “My Fair Lady” was directed by Moss Hart and played for 2,717 performances on Broadway. It starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews and was the longest running musical at the time. It played for 2,281 performances in London at the Drury Lane Theatre, then was adapted into a motion picture in 1964 starring Audrey Hepburn, with Harrison repeating his stage role.

A new 2002 London production is touring the U.S. prior to a Broadway opening.

Songs from the show include: “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” “The Rain in Spain,” “With a Little Bit of Luck” and “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”

The cast includes North Montgomery High School senior Lacey Kriston as Eliza and MDT’s frequent leading man Michael Moyer as Henry Higgins.

Other cast members include Keith James, Bob Penney and Jeremy Cales. Director Linnea Leatherman will play Mrs. Higgins, Henry’s mother.

Tickets for “My Fair Lady” can be reserved by calling the Myers Dinner Theatre office at (765)798-4902, ext. 2. Cost is $36 for dinner and show, including tax. Dinner for the evening shows begins at 6:30 p.m., EDT, at noon EDT for the weekday and Saturday matinees and at 1 p.m. EDT for the Sunday matinees.

For more information, visit the MDT Web site at http://www.myersdt.com.

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