Pursuits
‘My Fair Lady’ Gets Paris Staging, in English, Phew!: Review
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More than half a century after the Broadway premiere, “My Fair Lady” has made it to the Paris stage. It’s an enchanting production.
The Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical is performed in English, fortunately, at the Theatre du Chatelet. Professor Higgins’s experiment -- transforming a Cockney flower girl into a lady, who can speak the King’s English and pass muster at an ambassador’s party -- makes sense only in a society where accent and class are intimately linked.