Sunday, October 25, 1964
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Audience;
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i A Review
By BROOKE McKAMY
. , And BILL IIAPPEL
The enthusiastic applause and
spontaneous laughter in Friday
night's performance of "My Fair
Lady," directed by Thomas Pat
terson established a vital rap
port between cast and audience.
' In an amateur production of a
musical as familiar as "My Fair
Lady," the audience anticipates
almost every word. It is difficult
to project necessary freshness
into the performance. This is
success of the Playmaker pro
duction; they overcame this dif
ficulty. Peggy Jones is consistently
entertaining in her sparkling
performance of Eliza Doolittle
as she handles the transforma
tion from flower girl to fair
lady with accomplished ease.
Her - vaice, though not strong, is
clear and melodic. "
In comparison with her per
formance as Little Mary Sun
shine last year, she seems , to
have developed a greater dra
matic flexibility. She succeeds
in portraying Eliza with both
humor and dignity.
In his attempt to release Eliza
from her linguistic gutter, John
Whitty does a fine job capturing
the charmingly arrogant Profes
sor Higgkis. His dynamic por
trayal is an excellent comple
ment to Graham Pollock's de
lightfully dull Colonel Pickering.
Graham's fine sense of timing
provides the show with some of
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Reaction
Of 6My Fair Lady'
its best comic moments.
"My Fair Lady" could never
achieve the success that it does,
however, without the brilliant
performance of Fred Cook as Al
fred P. Doolittle. As he bounds
around the stage, he captivates
the audience and steals every
scene in which he appears. The
vitality of his portrayal seems to
be essential to the pace of the
play.
The musical numbers are well
handled, with the exception of
"On the Street Where You Live"
and "Show Me," because of the
comparatively weak performance
of Creed Freeman as Freddy
Eynsford-Hill. The rest of the
supporting cast handle their
parts well, especially Josephine
Pettis as Mrs. Higgins and Anne
West as Mrs. Pearce.
.The. chorus should be com
mended for its consistent liveli
ness and its articulation of the
lyrics. The opening musical num
ber and the Embassy Waltz
scene are examples of well
planned choreography.
It is evident that as much ef
fort was expended on the tech
nological development of "My
Fair Lady." The settings by
Tommy Rezzuto are colorfully
realistic in establishing an exact
atmosphere for the musical. The
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similarly striking.
Russell Graves' practiced hand
at lighting brought the principals
to focus.
The orchestration, directed by
Charles Horton, though initially
faltering, seemed to come alive
to the challenge offered by the
excellent music of Frederick
Loewe. Especially notable were
the English Horn solos of Mack
Smith.
Highest praise goes to director
Thomas Patterson who has visual
ized, in "My Fair Lady" the
dream of every director. He has
taken a well established musical
and restated it in his own terms,
without the slightest subtraction
from the original work.
The Carolina Playmakers have
staged a successful production of
"My Fair Lady."
RACE IS TOPIC
"Race as a Continuing Prob
lem in American Life" will be
the subject of Dr. J. Neal Hugh
ley of North Carolina College to
day at 4 p.m. in the basement ef
University Methodist Church
here.
The program is sponsored by
the Wesley Foundation.
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Spanish Novelist
Lectures Monday
"The New Contemporary Short
Story" will be topic for Spanish
novelist Miguel Delibes at 8 p.m.
Monday in Dey Hall faculty
lounge.
The visiting lecturer at Univer
sity of Maryland will be sponsor
ed by UNC and Duke depart
ments of romance languages.
Delibes has written several
novels and received the national
Miguel de Cervantes Prize and
Critics Prize in 1963.
Speigner To Speak
At Service Tonight
- Dr. Theodore R. Speigner,
chairman and professor of the
Department of Geography at
North Carolina College in Dur
ham, will be the speaker at the
Reformation Service Sunday eve
ning at Holy Trinity Church.
The service, sponsored by the
Lutheran Student Association,
will begin at 7 p.m.
Yale Professor
Presents Papers
Yale University Professor Nor
wood Russell Hanson will speak
to two groups here next week.
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entitled "The . Genetic Fallacy
Revisited" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in
115 Ackland Art Center.
Hanson will discuss "Stability
Proofs and Consistency Proofs"
at a Duke-UNC physics colloqu
ium in 265 Phillips at 4 p.m. Wed
nesday. The lecture will deal with
the problems of the stability of the
planetary system.
Gov. Sanford Talks !
Tuesday At Duke
Gov. Terry Sanford will speak
on behalf of the Johnson-Humphrey
candidacies at 8:45 p.m.
Tuesday in Duke's Page Audi
. torium.
Some 100 seats will be reserved
for UNC Young Democrats until
8:30 p.m. when they will be re
leased to the public. j
James Farmer Is
On CORE Program '
James Farmer, national direc
tor of Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE), will speak Nov. 7 in
Durham at the Southern Re
gional Conference.
Farmer's topic, "New Direc
tions in the Civil Rights Move
ment," will be the primary sub
ject at the conference. Sessions
will begin Nov. 6 at Union Bap
tist Church, 904 N. Roxboro St.
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