QUICK TAKES on what's onstage NOW in and around Boston-- This is the last weekend to see MY FAIR LADY presented by Broadway in Boston at the OPERA HOUSE. ACT I was bogged down in muddy sound and even muddier cockney accents. Madeline Powell as leading lady Eliza Doolittle lacked the role's requisite charm and [...]
The show must go on-- NEXT SEASON. So looking ahead to COVID-19 being behind us, Broadway In Boston has unveiled the upcoming 2020-2021 Lexus Broadway Season. Nine theatrical productions will take center stage at the Citizens Bank Opera House and the Emerson Colonial Theatre, an Ambassador Theatre Group venue, in the upcoming Season. The Citizens [...]
I've grown accustomed to seeing MY FAIR LADY. With each viewing I have been more or less delighted, entertained, and amused by this classic, onstage and onscreen. But never did I expect to be newly aroused by the characters, or for the first time find Henry Higgins of "romantic" interest, let alone care about the socio-economic struggle underpinning this tale about a linguistics professor [...]
