San Francisco Playhouse closes its 22nd season with Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady.
ThisTony Award-winning musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion follows Eliza Doolittle’s transformation from cockney flower girl to the belle of elegant society under the tutelage of linguistic expert Professor Henry Higgins with aid from Colonel Pickering.
What starts out as an innocuous bet blossoms into something more in this loverly musical favorite.
San Francisco Playhouse Artistic Director Bill English reexamines My Fair Lady through a 21st century lens, exploring gender politics and sexuality.
For example, there are several innuendos suggesting that the men are homosexuals, and that the good Colonel might even be a cross-dresser.
This new production revisits the relationships of Higgins, Doolittle, and Pickering, in addition to offering a novel take on its ending.
For tickets ($52-$135) and more information, Cultural Currents readers may visit sfplayhouse.org or call the box office at 415-677-9596.