My Fair Lady

Lerner and Loewe’s classic musical My Fair Lady has always been a crowd pleaser. When it first played on Broadway with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrew’s in the lead roles in 1960 it became an instant classic and was soon made into an Oscar winning movie. The film saw Harrison reprising his seminal performance as Higgins but the delicious Audrey Hepburn was a less than convincing Eliza. But the film was a visual feast with Cecil Beaton creating many of the superb costumes and sets. I like the film version but I love the soundtrack of the original stage version for its verve and energy. So coming to the new National Theatre production of My Fair Lady directed by ...  Read the complete review

When I heard that Martine McCutcheon was going to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in London's West End I was thrilled to bits. My favourite musical with one of my favourite performers, we just had to get tickets! We tried to get tickets earlier in the year but had no joy so we finally booked a weekend coach trip for the first weekend of December. A few weeks before we were due to go I saw a headline in the paper announcing that Martine McCutcheon was to drop out of the performance due to continued ill health. I looked at the article and found that she had decided to finish playing Eliza Doolittle on the weekend after our visit, so that was OK ...  Read the complete review