'MY  FAIR  LADY'

For our production this year, the Society is returning to one of the musical theatre's well known classics.  Last performed by GAOS in 1989, it is a timeless show and has become a legend in musical history.  Containing many well known songs such as, 'Get me to the Church on time' - 'I could have danced all night' - 'Wouldn't it be loverly', not forgetting the spectacular 'Ascot' gavotte.  It is a show which contrasts the lives of the working Cockney classes of Covent Garden, with the confident upper classes of the era.

The story opens with Prof. Higgins comparing speech patterns on the streets around Covent Garden.  There he meets his old friend Col. Pickering who challenges him to turn a cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a lady who will be accepted by the upper class as one of their own.  Intrigued by this challenge, Higgins takes Eliza under his wing.  As she progresses under instuction, she is 'tested' at the racing social event of the season, Ascot, where she manages to charm everyone, particularly young Freddy Eynsford-Hill.  At the Embassy Ball she again successfully carries off the deception, being described as a member of European nobility.

Unfortunately, Higgins, flushed by his own success, neglects to praise Eliza for her achievements which upsets her, who leaves his home to stay with his mother.  Unable to understand her actions, he visits only to be told he is arrogant, rude and selfish.  Back in his study, while pondering on the differences between men and women, he realizes he cannot live without Eliza, when she returns and Higgins demands his slippers!