Have a ‘loverly’ time at MDT

Local News

Discussion

June 2, 2008

‘My Fair Lady’ to be performed in Hillsboro

STAFF REPORT The Commercial-News Mon Jun 02, 2008, 11:01 AM CDT

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.

Text Only

Local News

Spirit of the West
Museum workers run out of adjectives when describing the “Spirit of the West” quilt exhibit, which opens Friday. “It’s mind boggling,” Sue Richer, director of the Vermilion County Museum, said as she admired the quilts. “It amazes me. They’re works of art, the way they’re put together.”

May 29, 2012 1 Photo
County looks at power deal
Vermilion County Board committee members will discuss a contract letting Integrys extend electric savings to residents now.

May 29, 2012
Six to retire from Danville High
Six longtime District 118 employees said goodbye to Danville High School at the end of the school year.

May 29, 2012 1 Photo
Teacher’s aide retires after 33 years
Jan Kovacic meets the students at Covington Elementary School when they arrive in the morning, and she is the last one they see in the afternoon when getting on a bus or in a car.

May 29, 2012
Fountain OKs nurse position
Fountain County Council members approved restructuring changes Tuesday in the Fountain-Warren Health Department.

May 29, 2012
United Way close to goal
The United Way of Danville Area is in the home stretch of its annual campaign and wants residents’ help in reaching that goal.

May 29, 2012
City rummage sale nears
May 29, 2012
Home tour helps museum
May 29, 2012
Police, Fire Reports
May 29, 2012
Teacher weaves life skills in with lessons
KaSandra Mitchell’s fifth-graders probably think all the cooking and sewing they do in class is a lot of fun.

May 29, 2012 1 Photo
More Local News Headlines

Local News

Search Results

Discussion

Have a ‘loverly’ time at MDT

‘My Fair Lady’ to be performed in Hillsboro

Site Map

Contact Us