Thursday, December 9, 2021

reviews - MY FAIR LADY - National Tour: ASU Gammage

The Cast
photo by Joan Marcus
 
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)

Click here for more information on this production that runs through December 12

"...With such well-known songs as "I Could Have Danced All Night," "The Rain in Spain," and "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," and an extremely well-written book, My Fair Lady is a classic musical in the truest sense. The national tour of the recent Lincoln Center Theatre production of this well-loved show has superb leads, a talented supporting cast, rich direction, gorgeous costumes, and an impressive set design—a winning production that lovers of the show and fans of classic musicals are sure to enjoy. This production also softens somewhat the misogyny in the script, which helps the material work for the modern era...."   -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)

"... It's as if director Bartlett Sher had taken Alan Jay Lerner's book, blown a layer of dust from its pages that had accumulated over the years, then re-vamped, re-imagined, and re-tooled the whole affair. The result is a theatrical joy ride that bursts into life the moment the giant pillars of Convent Garden are lowered from above and the opening scene is established. You're familiar with the work, but you've never seen it approached in quite this way before...." - David Appleford, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)

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