PLAY READING: My Fair lady

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Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/06/2015
5:00 pm

Location
Alliance Francaise de Bangalore

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PLAY READING: My Fair lady

5:00 pm | 7th of June | Alliance Française basement

The popular play is back. Henry Higgins, a Professor of Phonetics, encounters Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, one cold March night at Covent Garden market. He declares to his friend Colonel Pickering that in three months he could transform Eliza into a duchess.

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Over the course of several months Eliza, who moves into the Higgins household, is put through a gruelling course of phonetics and elocution lessons by Higgins. Eliza’s moment of triumph comes at the Embassy Ball. She is beautiful, elegant and well-spoken and proves to be an enormous success particularly with the young gentleman Freddy Eynsford-Hill who falls desperately in love with her.

After the ball Eliza falls into despondency as she sees Higgins celebrating his triumph in passing Eliza off as a duchess, showing little consideration for her feelings. Unnoticed, she slips out of Higgins’ house and seeks consolation with Higgins’ mother. Higgins comes in search of her but Eliza refuses to return with him.

Playwright/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born into a wealthy New York City retailing family.Has won three Tony Awards, all in collaboration with Frederick Loewe: two in 1957 for “My Fair Lady,” as Best Author (Musical) and for his book and lyrics as part of a Best Musical win.

This play reading is a part of the Alliance française de Bangalore and Bangalore Little Theatre partnership.