based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the film by Gabriel Pascal Book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe
Clothes alone do not make the man. At least that's what phonetics professor Henry Higgins is convinced of when he declares Eliza Doolittle, a native of the London slums with her coarse, ordinary language, to be his test subject: he bets Colonel Pickering that he can turn her into a lady of the world within six months by cultivating her language. Every day, he tortures Eliza with language exercises in order to finally prove that she is fit for the drawing room at the diplomatic ball at Buckingham Palace. But can this experiment succeed? Will Eliza win over high society with her newfound language skills? An exciting study with an uncertain outcome ...
With "My Fair Lady", Theater Vorpommern brings a true classic to the stage, which has been one of the most-performed Broadway musicals since its premiere in New York in 1956 and whose Oscar-winning film adaptation of the same name from 1964 is no less well-known. Titles such as "Ich hätt' getanzt heut' Nacht" and "Wäre das nicht wunderschön" have been evergreens in musical literature ever since.
