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the HERALD- Wednesday November Entertainment My Fair Lady production a highly commended effort lit raid Some people and I am one of them believe thai My Fair Lady is the greatest musical of all time My Fair Lady is has on George Bernard Shaw witty and intelligent play Pygmalion in which Professor Henry makes a bet that he can turn a cockney guttersnipe into a proper lady Shaw took his story from classical mythology Shaws play had it s first per in Vienna of all places in 1913 in German In 1914 the play opened in London with Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Right from the start attempts were made to fashion an operet ta In Gabriel Pascal made the movie Pygmalion with Wendy and Leslie Howard wluch Shaw rather liked He did not like Pascals ending however which makes Eliza return to her professor jailer After Shaws death in 1950 Pascal asked and merstem to create a musical from the play but they declined Other composers were approach ed including Cole Porter Leonard Bernstein and even but all declined Finally Alan Jay Lerner wrote the book and lyrics and Frederick Loewe composed the music for My Fair Lady which opened on Broadway in 1956 with Rex Harrison as Hig gins and the almost unknown Julie Andrews as Eliza It was an overwhelming success with perftrmances on Broadway alone Consecutively My Fair Lady was produced coun tries in 1 translations In 1964 the movie version of My Fair Lady came out again with Harrison as but with the glamorous Audrey Hep burn as Eliza Cecil Beaton designed the sets and costumes and they were a WOW Now we are having a production of My Fair Lady in Georgetown I recommend it highly In any production of My Fair Lady the roles of Eliza and the dustman Alfred are crucial Georgetown Globe Productions are fortunate in having Brigida who is a fierce and never quite tamed Eliza Neville who is a delightfully self absorbed and befuddled Henry and Ken Gonn who is a truly proletarian tie Audrey Houston as Mrs gins has the required warmth and Derek Ashenden as Colonel Pickering is serviceable All the others more or less do what they are told to do under the lively direction of Shirley Many of the scenes are played in front of the curtain and while this device works very well for the scenes with only two or three characters it does not work well with crowds I occasionally had visions of clusters of prancing cockneys vanishing into the or chestra pit The choreography directed by Evelyn Webster is wonderfully rude and deliciously low as Pro fessor Higgins would say By comparison the upper class in the Ascot and Embassy scenes moves under the constraints of rigor mortis Hilarious The reception and ball at the Embassy was a bit of a letdown for me This is Eliza s crowning She should be the centre of lion instead of the Queen of Tran sylvania The orchestra under the direction of Terry Champ was at times too loud Lerner lyrics are so good that I want to hear every word They must not be drowned in sound But these are minor flaws I saw My Fair Lady on the first night and I want to see again when the enormous tion more than a hundred people are involved in it has settled in more My Fair Lady is going to be at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown for a while There will be performances on November 29 and 30 the evening a matinee performance on Sunday December and again evening performances on Decmeber45 and 7 Movie Review Addams Family fails By Dawn Wood Herald Special The Addams Family directed by Barry Sonnenfcld is another in a series of silver screen debuts of pop culture TV venue classics In this one Angelica Huston leads as Morticia Addams Unlike most other productions The Family docs not draw on super heroes Batman Superman the Star Trek gang Instead il is the return of an off beat series not unlike to days Married With Children The Family tries very hard to reproduce the cliches of the TV series such as Gomez s Raul Julia passionate reactions to Morticias utterances in French and habit of cutting off the heads of roses before arranging the stems a vase Unfortunately the movie doesn go beyond these flashbacks The plot centres around an at tempt by a fictitious doctor Wilson to have Christopher Lloyd steal the family fortune while he is suf fermg amnesia and believing himself to be her only son The plot does not get better than this Then again was jt ever meant to What the plot does do however is provide a venue for the delivery of the trademark Ad dams Family pastimes and cliches that we know so well On this account the movie does deliver though Thing living ha and Cousin It arc definitely overplayed well beyond their appearances on the old TV sitcom Like the many movies of its genre The Addams Family shows sparkle through its sup porting cast specially the per formance of Christina who is Wednesday and Gomezs public school daughter She carries off the character i lawlessly being absolutely deadpan no pun intended her role In fan she along with brother Pugsley are the only ones who dont seem to be consciously trying to mimic their TV series predecessors This is in part due to their age having been born long after the series was off the air Judging by the audience who went to see The Family some high expectations have been made They will be met if the expectation is to see an ex tended play of the TV favorite but if something original is sought seek again The only noteworthy originality is in the Addams Grove theme music performed the Hammer The movie is appropriate for all family members and is a good piece of nostalgia CAPE FEAR WARNING Brutal Violence Evenings at 15 Sat Sun 00 FAMILY Evenings at m Sat Sun p THE ADAMS FAMILY Subject To C last ideation Evening 7 Sat Sun p Globe theatres fall production the well known musical My Fair Lady opened last Thursday at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown Pictured above Eliza Callaghan is selling her flowers to theatre patron Colonel Pickering Derek Ashen during the productions opening scene The musical continues through Nov and 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