Category: My Fair Lady

Film Review: ‘My Fair Lady’: ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’

G | 2h 50 min | Musical, Comedy | 1964 For a musical, 1964’s “My Fair Lady” isn’t about music at all. It’s about speech. It isn’t about singing. It’s about speaking. Yet, magically, director George Cukor and producer Jack L Warner, make this magnificent British-American film about all these things, bringing to film the…


Theater Review: ‘My Fair Lady’ In a Mostly Glorious Production

CHICAGO—Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Oscar Hammerstein turned down the opportunity to adapt George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 “Pygmalion” play into a musical comedy. It was too wordy, they said, and not romantic. It would never work as a musical. Indeed, Shaw’s drawing-room comedy of class differences in which Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle to use…


Segerstrom Bringing Broadway Back at Full Capacity

Seats for the Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Broadway series could fill to full capacity this November as the venue plans to host some of theater’s biggest hits with no limits on ticket sales. The performing and visual arts center confirmed with The Epoch Times on May 6 that it will be operating at full…