Praise for My Fair Lady
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Gilbert and Sullivan Society have done it again – a top-rate musical
show which highlights the impressive talents of a first-class company
which seriously earned the praise showered on it.
At the Savoy, Paul Griffiths directs Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair
Lady” with the right blend of style and verve, and brings out
the best in compulsively watchable Kelly-Leigh Mucka and the
ideally-cast Clifford Kleb, who make unusually close contact with the
audience and whose work is characterised by intelligence and good comic
observation. Both know how to pace a scene, Mucka’s Eliza Doolittle is
memorably observed, and Kleb gives a highly professional, persuasive
reading of the acerbic Higgins.
This abundantly theatrical, immaculate production is well
served in supporting roles by Roy Williams, making a welcome,
long-overdue return to the theatre as Colonel Pickering; Jeremy Baylis
scores a small triumph as Alfred P Doolittle; and matriarch Robin
Williams, who is a hoot and who has the priceless gift of making the
language tangible.
Port Elizabeth theatre-lovers owe a debt of gratitude to those unpaid
men and women who, behind the scenes, keep the flame of amateur theatre
burning brightly, and to those players who warm themselves – and their
audiences – at that flame.
Terry Herbst, Richmond
Hill.
Port Elizabeth Budget Accommodation
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