February 22,1995
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Campus Extras
Cast of My Fair Lady gives "loverly" performance
The North Carolina Theatre pre
sented a “loverly” performance of My
Fair Latty at Raleigh Memorial Audito
rium last week.
Dana Lynn Caruso charmed the
audience as the quirky Eliza DooUttle
who enlists the help of Professor Henry
Higgins (Kenneth Gamer) to teach
her how to drop her cockney English
dialect and speak correctly.
Higgins makes a bet with Colonel
Pickering (Richard Kinter) that he can
transform her from a common, ill-man
nered flower gill to a woman who
could pass as a princess at the Embassy
Ball in only six months.
The contest begins and Eliza is taken
through a rigorous training session to
improve her speech and manners. This
process is difficult but hilarious as Eliza
whines her way into high society and
steals the chauvinistic heart of Higgins.
Gamer excels in the performance
Clarky Lucas
play review
of the self-centered Higgins, who is
every woman’s nightmare. Feminists
cringeat “Hymn to Him” where Higgins
passionately questions “Why can’t a
woman be more like a man?” He is so
arrogant and domineering that the au
dience loves to hate him.
Caruso steels hearts with each song
she sings and gets the audience to root
for Eliza as she masters her English and
becomes a refined lady. You can’t
help but giggle at Eliza’s brashness
during the horse race where she hollers
to the horse Dover to move its
“bloomin’ ass, ” sending the other spec
tators into shock. Higgins and Pickering
are constantly on the edge of their
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seats wondering what Eliza will do
next.
One familiar face from Meredith
College appears in the play. Catherine
Rodgers, the assistant professor of
Speech and Theatre, portrays Mrs.
Eynsford Hill and is part of the En
semble.
The music is a definitely a high
point of this show. All of the perform
ers have incredible voices and sing
with energy and enthusiasm. Many of
the upbeat songs are well known like
“With a Little Bit of Luck,” “I Could
Have Danced All Night”and “GetMeto
the Church. ” The North Carolina Sym
phony provides the music flawlessly.
The setting is excellent. The back
drops of buildings and pubs in colors
of dark blues and purples sets the stage
for the dark streets of London that are
inhabited by a poor and fiin loving lot.
Higgins' house is elegant and warm,
and we see most of Eliza’s progress in
the study where there is a winding
wood staircase, three phonographs,
bookcases and a chaise lounge.
The costumes are detailed and ex
pressive of the time period. Women
wear long dresses and hats, while the
men wear suits and ascots. The most
eye-catching costume is the dress Eliza
wears to the Embassy ball. She seems
to float around the room in the white
sequined dress that has short sleeves, a
high waist and long skirt. The cos
tumes are modeled after the ones fea
tured in movie version of My Fair
Lady that stars Audrey Hepburn and
Rex Harrison.
The three hour performance shown
Feb. 14-19 definitely provided “the five
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