Catholic Weekly reviews My Fair Lady at Sydney Opera House

The musical My Fair Lady is playing at the Sydney Opera House to mark the 70th anniversary of its Broadway debut. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and the 1938 film, this production follows the 2016 Australian staging by Julie Andrews.

Michael Quinlan of The Catholic Weekly describes the production as an examination of the customs, language, and morality of Edwardian London. The show features a cast including Claire Lyon as Eliza Doolittle, Nathaniel Parker as Professor Henry Higgins, Robyn Nevin as Higgins' mother, Tony Llewellyn-Jones as Colonel Hugh Pickering, and Reg Livermore as Alfred P. Doolittle. The story follows the transformations of Eliza, a flower girl living in poverty, and the linguist Higgins.