Rockwall Community Playhouse opens My Fair Lady this week

by Shawn Parikh

Rockwall Community Playhouse is getting ready to kick off their 2008-2009 season this week with the classic musical My Fair Lady. The show will run from September 25 - October 12 and tickets can be purchased online or by calling 972-722-3399.

Based on Shaw's play and Pascal's movie Pygmalion, with book, music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, My Fair Lady is triumphant. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as a lady. Higgins takes credit for Eliza's success, but she realizes that she can now be independent and does not need him. With "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?", "With a Little Bit of Luck," "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night", "On the Street Where You Live", "Get Me to the Church on Time" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face". It's no wonder everyone, not just Henry Higgins, falls in love with Eliza Doolittle.

Here is the song "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" from the 1964 Audrey Hepburn film to get you in the mood: