April 22-24 & 28-30, 2011 - Grand Haven Community Center

By George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Sarah Fields

One of Shaw's finest plays, Pygmalion won acclaim in Gabriel Pascal's 1938 motion picture adaptation and achieved further notice in 1956, adapted into the musical My Fair Lady also later a successful film. In this seminal comedy of class distinctions, a fussy British phonetics professor, Henry Higgins wagers that he can transform guttersnipe cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle into a lady of breeding, voice and manners in London's Ascot society with surprising results.

Pygmalion has roles for 6 males and 6 females.

• Lerner and Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady, based on Pygmalion, opened on Broadway in 1956.  At the time, it set the record for the longest major musical production run in history.
  Shaw created Eliza Doolittle Specifically for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, partly as a flirtatious challenge and partly to tease her for her social pretensions.
  Shaw became the first person to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).

Venue: Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave., Grand Haven.

Box Office Opens Monday, October 12.
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