Lowe's musical My Fair Lady. "my fair lady" Seats like in a theater

Director Alla Sigalova and the leading actors spoke about the performance, rehearsals and collaboration.

The premiere of a musical and dramatic performance took place at the Oleg Tabakov Theater (stage on Sukharevskaya) "My Fair Lady". Director and choreographer Alla Sigalova staged it based on Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, as well as the famous musical My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe.

The premiere of the play by the Oleg Tabakov Theater took place as part of the 19th Open Arts Festival “Cherry Forest”.

"Pygmalion" and "Oscar" for the author

Poor young flower girl Eliza Doolittle, selling violets at the entrance to Covent Garden, has absolutely no idea of ​​​​good manners and social techniques. Her speech consists entirely of low-grade words, and she herself behaves like a timid animal. Chance or fate brings together a flower girl, respected London professor Henry Higgins and linguist Colonel Pickering at the columns of the famous theater on a rainy evening. The result of the meeting will be a bet between experts on pronunciation and dialects: in just a few months, Henry Higgins undertakes to train any girl (yes, even this flower girl) so that she will be accepted as one of his own in any decent society. Yes, whatever, the girl will go to the court ball and there she will be mistaken for a duchess. Like Pygmalion from the ancient Greek myth, Professor Higgins carved a perfect lady from a “block of marble”... and shared the fate of the famous sculptor, falling in love with his own creation. However, Eliza turned out to be completely different from the submissive Galatea.

Bernard Show- one of the most popular playwrights in the English theater - nurtured the idea for the play Pygmalion for about 15 years. Like Higgins, he was seriously interested in phonetics, and as the prototype for his hero he chose the famous philologist Henry Sweet, one of the founders of the English school of phoneticians.

The play was ready in 1912, and already in 1914 it was already shown in many theaters. Everywhere she was a huge success. In 1938, Shaw himself wrote the script for the film of the same name, for which he received Oscar award. 13 years earlier, by the way, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He refused money on principle.

“Shaw has written an absolutely stunning play with so many symbols, signs and themes. I have loved this work for a long time, but in order to stage this performance, a coincidence of circumstances is important - Higgins must appear, Eliza must appear. And the situation is complicated by the fact that next to Higgins there should be his antipode - Pickering. It was necessary for this puzzle to come together. It’s complex, and it doesn’t work out in every theater,” says director Alla Sigalova.

Legendary Broadway musical

Released in 1956 Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" by poet-librettist Alain Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Lowe. The performance instantly broke all records for popularity: tourists from different cities and countries came to see it, and tickets were sold out long before the performance itself.

True, Alain Jay Lerner changed the plot a little: if in Shaw’s version the couple in love separated forever, then in the musical they had a happy ending. By the way, the author himself, not wanting to console the audience, often argued with theater directors who wanted to give the story a different ending.

In the performance of the Oleg Tabakov Theater, the music and text remained the same as in the Broadway production. The topic of the relationship between teacher and student is very close to Alla Sigalova, who heads the departments at the Moscow Art Theater School and GITIS.

“This musical gave me the opportunity to talk about teacher-student relationships. My task, as a teacher, is to discover in the student what he himself may not be aware of. To do this, it is important to want it and do it passionately. Everything comes from passion and through passion,” says Alla Sigalova.

Audrey Hepburn, Tatyana Shmyga, Daria Antonyuk

In 1964, director George Cukor decided to bring the famous musical to the screen. He invited the famous actress to play the role of Eliza Doolittle. Audrey Hepburn, a style icon of his time. The film received eight Oscar awards, including best movie.

In the production, Sigalova transformed into a flower girl from the slums Daria Antonyuk, winner of the fifth season of the music show “The Voice”.

“I saw the film, so I knew this story before. When we started rehearsing, I decided on principle not to rewatch the movie, so that it would be an independent, new story. But in order to catch the flavor of the era, and this is the aristocratic “Belle Epoque,” ​​I watched films about this time. And they inspired me,” said the actress.

The history of the musical “My Fair Lady” in Russia began at the Operetta Theater in 1965. The play was staged by Alexander Gorban, and the main role was played by Tatyana Shmyga.

This is not the first time Alla Sigalova has addressed this story. Last year, the Riga Russian Theater named after Mikhail Chekhov celebrated its 135th anniversary with the production of “My Fair Lady.” The set design in Riga and Moscow was done by one artist - Giorgi Alexi-Meskhishvili. He came up with a set on a rotating circular platform: they turn into dark London slums, a ballroom, Higgins' apartment or his mother's elegant house.

Sigalova and her team

Winner of the Golden Mask Alla Sigalova is known all over the world: she collaborates with La Scala and the Paris Opera, as well as many other foreign and Russian theaters.

Sigalova has been working with the Oleg Tabakov Theater for a long time. In 1993, she choreographed a play by Vladimir Mashkov in "The Passion of Bumbarash" and in 2018, as a director, she presented “Katerina Ilvovna” based on Leskov’s work “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”, which was awarded a prize from the Moscow government.

The costumes for the play “My Fair Lady” were created by Alla Mikhailovna’s longtime friend, a famous fashion designer. Valentin Yudashkin. Eliza changes clothes six times, gradually turning into a dazzling beauty. In total there are 200 costumes and 58 hats in the performance. Some of the costumes are made from a special Japanese nanofabric - something like this is no longer available in any theater in the capital.

The lead actress, Daria Antonyuk, has a voice with a range of three and a half octaves— ended up in the production also thanks to Sigalova. A talented girl is one of Alla Mikhailovna’s students at the Moscow Art Theater School. She immediately agreed to the role of Eliza.

“When we analyzed the play, I found a lot in common between Eliza and myself. She is contradictory, temperamental, and sometimes does not quite cope with strong emotions. Love, passion, curiosity, she desires change and desperately resists it, trying to maintain her self-esteem. How she understands this, of course,” said Daria Antonyuk.

Professor Henry Higgins, who took up the teaching, was played by the Honored Artist of Russia, a student of Oleg Tabakov Sergey Ugryumov.

“Higgins has been struggling with his feeling for a long time, and is constantly trying to get rid of it; it is difficult for him to admit it to himself. But when he realizes that Eliza has become completely independent and is about to leave completely, it is at that moment that he wants to stop her, to confess his love. But Eliza says: “All the best, we won’t see each other again,” said Alla Sigalova.

The professor's friend, Colonel Pickering, played Vitaly Egorov. He sympathizes with his hero, who from the very beginning felt sorry for Eliza and sympathized with her.

“The Colonel is a lonely man, also a bachelor, to some extent an esthete, studying Sanskrit and linguistics. He sincerely sympathizes with this poor girl during the experiment that he and Higgins started. But unlike Higgins, he always treated Eliza the way a gentleman should treat a lady, even before any metamorphosis,” says the artist.

The main thing is humor

Rehearsed three months. For guest artist Daria Antonyuk, this is the first experience of working at the Oleg Tabakov Theater.

“I am very impressed with the team. Every person here is so desperately ready to help you, even without really knowing you. There was no period when we got used to each other; I had the feeling that I had known these people for a very long time. It’s amazing and very rare for essentially strangers to accept you so warmly,” she recalls.

All arguments at rehearsals usually ended in jokes. This mainly concerned two friends and classmates - Sergei Ugryumov and Vitaly Egorov.

“When any disagreements arose, we turned them into humor. It’s just that at some point he and I realized that she was about to run out of patience, and we started joking. In general, she likes our tandem, sometimes we made Alla Mikhailovna laugh,” said Vitaly Egorov.

By the way, he has already worked with Alla Sigalova - in “The Passion of Bumbarash”. He believes that her external fragility and grace are combined with the strong and persistent character of a true professional.

“Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov said that a play cannot be released if there is no love and there is no suitable company. And Alla Sigalova created just such a team using her internal reserves, strength, courage, and patience,” emphasized Vitaly Egorov.

The performance can be seen June 18, 19 and 20. In addition, the theater will open a new season in the fall.

In two acts, eighteen scenes.
Libretto and lyrics by A. J. Lerner.

Characters:

Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics (baritone); Colonel Pickering; Eliza Doolittle, street flower girl (soprano); Alfred Doolittle, scavenger, her father; Mrs. Higgins, the professor's mother; Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, society lady; Freddie, her son (tenor); Clara, her daughter; Mrs. Pierce, Higgins' housekeeper; George, ale-keeper; Harry and Jemmy, Dolittle's drinking buddies; Mrs. Hopkins; Higgins' butler; Charles, Mrs. Higgins' chauffeur; constable; flower girl; embassy footman; Lord and Lady Boxington; Sir and Lady Tharrington; Queen of Transylvania; ambassador; Professor Zoltan Karpaty; housemaid; servants in the Higgins house, guests at the ball at the embassy, ​​peddlers, passers-by, flower girls.

The action takes place in London during the reign of Queen Victoria.

The libretto of “My Fair Lady” uses the plot of “Pygmalion” by B. Shaw, one of the most popular comedies of the 20th century. The librettist significantly changed the source material. He turned a three-act comedy into a performance consisting of almost two dozen scenes, which sometimes replace each other like film stills. The greater fragmentation of the action allowed the authors of the musical to expand the panorama of life in London and its various social strata. The musical clearly shows what Shaw's play only talks about in passing: the everyday life of the poor quarter, the people around whom Eliza grew up, and on the other hand, high society, aristocrats at the Ascot races, at a high-society ball. The music of the play, always bright and melodic, sometimes takes on the features of irony. The composer widely uses the rhythmic intonations of waltz, march, polka, and foxtrot; You can also hear habanera, jota, and gavotte here. The structure of My Fair Lady is a musical comedy. The image of the main character is most fully reflected in the music.

First action

First picture. Covent Garden Square in front of the Royal Opera House. Theatrical drive on a cold, rainy March evening. A crowd is crowded under the colonnade of St. Paul's Church. Freddie Eynsford-Hill accidentally touches the basket of a flower girl sitting on the steps, scattering bouquets of violets. Flower girl Eliza Doolittle is outraged. She demands in vain to pay her for the destroyed flowers. The crowd notices that a gentleman is recording her every word. This is Higgins. To those present, who suspected him of being a police agent, he explains that his profession is phonetics. By the peculiarities of pronunciation, he determines where each of those who spoke to him is from. About the smart gentleman with a military bearing, Higgins says that he came from India. Pickering is shocked. Having introduced themselves to each other, Higgins and Pickering find out that they have long dreamed of meeting each other. After all, both are interested in the same science. Higgins wrote down everything Eliza said in phonetic symbols, since the girl interested him with her terrible pronunciation, as well as continuous slang expressions. Her language, says Higgins, forever determined her social position. But he, Higgins, could teach her impeccable English in six months, and then she could climb the social ladder - say, not sell on the street, but join a fashionable store.

The rain stops and Higgins takes Pickering to his place on Wimpole Street. The crowd gradually disperses. Eliza, warming herself by the fire lit by the peddlers, sings the song “I would like a room without cracks” - sad, affectionate, dreamy, with a playful refrain “That would be great.”

Second picture. Beer house on a dirty street where tenement buildings are located. Dolittle appears at the door. He is waiting for Eliza to defraud her of her earned money. When the girl appears, the garbage man tricks her into giving her a coin to buy a drink. Eliza hides in a squalid home, and Dolittle sings the cheerful couplets “God has given us strong hands,” the rollicking chorus of which is readily picked up by his drinking companions.

Third picture. The next morning in Higgins's office on Wimpole Street. Higgins and Pickering listen to the recordings. Their work is interrupted by the arrival of Eliza. She remembered what Higgins said about her, as well as his address, which he told Pickering quite loudly. She wants to learn to “speak in an educated way.” Interested, Pickering offers Higgins to pay all the expenses for the experiment, but bets that she still won’t make a duchess. Higgins agrees. He tells his housekeeper Mrs. Pierce to strip Eliza of her old rags of dubious cleanliness, wash and scrub her thoroughly, and order her new clothes. Left alone with Pickering, Higgins sets out his views on life - those of a confirmed bachelor - in the couplets "I'm a normal man, peaceful, quiet and simple."

Fourth picture. Same block of tenements on Tottenham Court Road. The neighbors are excitedly sharing the amazing news: Eliza has not been home for four days now, but today she sent a note asking that they send her her favorite things. Dolittle, hearing this, draws his own conclusions.

Fifth picture. Higgins' office on the same day, a little later. Mrs. Pierce brings a letter from the American millionaire Ezra Wallingford, who for the third time asks Higgins to give a course of lectures in his League for the Struggle for Moral Improvement. The butler announces Dolittle's arrival.

The scavenger, who is determined to profit from his daughter’s luck, makes such a brilliant speech that Higgins, instead of throwing him out for blackmail, gives him money and recommends him to the American as one of the most original moralists in England. After Dolittle leaves, the lesson begins. Higgins brings Eliza to such a state that, left alone, she invents a terrible revenge on him. Her monologue, “Wait a minute, Henry Higgins, wait a minute,” sounds parodically dark and furious.

Several hours pass (blackout). Eliza continues to teach. Higgins threatened to leave her without lunch and dinner if she failed the task. Pickering and Higgins drink tea and cake, and the poor hungry girl repeats endless exercises. The servants feel sorry for their master, who works so hard.

Several more hours pass. Already evening. Eliza is still studying, “encouraged” by the scolding of the hot-tempered professor. Nothing works out for her. The small chorus of servants sounds again.

In the dead of night, when the girl is already completely exhausted, Higgins suddenly, for the first time ever, addresses her softly, with gentle admonishments, and Eliza immediately grasps what she had been seeking in vain for so long. Delighted, all three, forgetting their fatigue, jump up and begin to dance and sing the sultry habanera “Just Wait,” which then turns into a jota. Higgins decides to give Eliza a test tomorrow. He will take her out into the world - to the races at Ascot. And now - sleep! Inspired by her first success, Eliza sings “I could dance” - with a joyful, as if flying melody.

Sixth picture. Entrance to the racecourse at Ascot. Pickering respectfully introduces an elegant elderly lady - Mrs. Higgins. He confusedly tries to explain that her son will bring a street flower girl to her box. The shocked Mrs. Higgins very vaguely grasps the meaning of his confused speeches.

Seventh picture. Mrs Higgins's box at the racecourse. It sounds like an elegant gavotte. The chorus of aristocrats “The high society has gathered here” conveys an ironic characteristic of the so-called “society”. The ladies and gentlemen slowly and decorously disperse; Higgins and his mother, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill with her daughter and son, and others enter the box. Pickering introduces everyone to Miss Dolittle, who makes an irresistible impression of Freddie Eynsford-Hill. A general conversation begins, during which Eliza, carried away, makes expressions that are completely unacceptable in polite society. This causes Freddy to become wildly amused.

He and Clara, who are rarely in society because of their poverty, mistake Eliza’s slang for the latest secular fashion. True, Eliza pronounces all her words impeccably, but the content of her speeches shows Higgins that a lot of work is still needed.

Eighth picture. In front of Higgins' house. Freddie came here to declare his love to Eliza. He is not allowed into the house. Eliza is so upset about her failure that she doesn’t want to see anyone. But Freddie is not upset: if necessary, he will wait all his life! His song “I’ve walked this street more than once” is bright, lyrical, and full of sincere feeling.

Ninth picture. Higgins's office a month and a half later. All this time, Eliza worked hard, beyond all measure, and today is the decisive exam. They are going to a ball at the embassy. Pickering is nervous. Higgins is absolutely calm. Eliza in a ball gown is as beautiful as a vision. The colonel is showered with compliments, Higgins mutters through his teeth: “Not bad!”

Tenth picture. The landing of the embassy's grand staircase at the entrance to the ballroom. Footmen report on arriving guests. A lush, solemn waltz is heard. Mrs. Higgins, Professor Higgins, and Colonel Pickering discuss Eliza's first success. Higgins' colleague Professor Karpati enters. He accompanies the Queen of Transylvania. His favorite pastime is identifying impostors by their pronunciation. Pickering begs Higgins to leave before Karpati meets Eliza, but he wants to see the trial through to the end.

Eleventh picture. Ballroom. Eliza enthusiastically dances with one or another gentleman, including Karpathy, who is very interested in her. Higgins watches, determined to let events take their natural course.

Second act

Twelfth picture. Higgins's office.

Tired, Eliza, Higgins and Pickering return after the ball. The girl can barely stand on her feet, but the men do not pay any attention to her. The servants congratulate the master on his success. A large ensemble scene unfolds, first featuring the exuberant polka “Well, dear friend, victory,” and then Higgins’ tale of Karpathy—brilliantly parodic, with a witty use of hackneyed Hungarian melodic turns.

Finally left alone with Higgins, Eliza furiously reveals to him everything that has accumulated in her soul. After all, her situation is now hopeless - she cannot return to her old life, and what is her future? For Higgins, everything is simple: the experiment is brilliantly completed and you don’t have to think about it anymore! The professor leaves, trying to maintain his dignity, and Eliza, choking with rage, repeats: “Well, wait, Henry Higgins, wait!”

Thirteenth picture. Wimpole Street in front of Higgins' house. Dawn. Freddie is sitting on the steps. For many days now he has left this post only to eat, sleep and change clothes. His song still sounds joyful and tender. Eliza comes out of the house with a small suitcase. The lyrical-comedy duet scene “Your speeches captivated me” unfolds. Freddie, against the will of the girl, who is taking out her anger on him, runs to see her off.

Fourteenth picture. Covent Garden Flower Market, opposite - a familiar beer garden. It's early morning, the market is just starting to wake up. The same peddlers are warming themselves by the fire as on the night Eliza met Higgins. They sing her song ("That's Great"). Eliza enters, but no one recognizes her. She sees a well-dressed Dolittle emerge from the pub - in a top hat and patent leather shoes, with a flower in his buttonhole. It turns out that Wallingford, to whom Higgins once recommended him, left Doolittle a substantial amount of money in his will. So solid that Dolittle didn't have the heart to refuse it. And now he is a finished man. He has become one of the respected citizens, he has to behave decently. His long-term partner, Eliza's stepmother, also decided to become respected, and today they are getting married. His freedom was gone, his carefree life was over!

Fifteenth picture. Hall of the Higgins house, morning. Both gentlemen are shocked and upset by Eliza's departure. Higgins’s couplets “What made her leave, I don’t understand” are interspersed with Pickering’s reasoning and his telephone calls either to the police or to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with demands to find the fugitive.

Sixteenth picture. Mrs. Higgins's house, a little later. Eliza is here. Over a cup of tea, she tells Mrs. Higgins about everything that happened. Higgins bursts in and begins to rage. Mrs. Higgins leaves her son alone with Eliza, and an explanation takes place between them. It turns out that he felt how much he missed her. But the girl is adamant. Eliza’s speeches sound decisively and with inspiration: “The sun can shine without you, England can live without you.” Yes, she will not be lost: she can marry Freddy, she can become Karpati’s assistant... Eliza leaves, leaving Higgins in confusion.

Seventeenth picture. That same day in front of a house on Wimpole Street. Twilight. Higgins returns. He made an unexpected and terrible discovery: “I don’t understand what’s wrong with me, I’m so used to her eyes...”

Eighteenth picture. A few minutes later in Higgins' office. He, sadly drooping, listens to old recordings of Eliza’s arrival in his house. The girl quietly and quietly enters the room. She listens with Higgins for a while, then turns off the phonograph and gently continues for him... Higgins straightens up and sighs contentedly. Eliza understands him without words.

L. Mikheeva, A. Orelovich

“This is the first time I’ve seen an honest producer!” - exclaimed Bernard Shaw when Gabriel Pascal, in response to the question of how much money he had, took some change from his pockets. Pascal asked the famous playwright for permission to stage a musical based on his play. If Shaw had not been captivated by Pascal's honesty, the world probably would not have seen the magnificent musical My Fair Lady.

This story perfectly corresponds to the spirit of the play that Pascal drew attention to - “Pygmalion”: is everything in the world really decided by money, what will happen if you support a person who has no money? The playwright puts these eternal questions into the form of a plot that echoes the ancient myth set out in Ovid Naso’s “Metamorphoses”: the sculptor Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a beautiful woman he created, and the goddess of love Aphrodite, condescending to his prayer, breathed life into it... In Shaw’s play everything looks far from so sublime - after all, the action takes place not in ancient times, but in Victorian England. Poor girl Eliza Doolittle - ugly, dressed in a blackened straw hat and a “red coat”, with mouse-colored hair - sells flowers on the street, but the income brought by this occupation does not allow her to get out of poverty. She could improve her situation by getting a job in a flower shop, but she is not hired because of her incorrect pronunciation. To correct this deficiency, she turns to Professor Higgins, a famous phonetician. He is not inclined to accept a beggar girl as a student, but his colleague Pickering, feeling sympathy for Eliza, offers Higgins a bet: let the professor prove that he is truly a highly qualified specialist, and if six months later he can pass the girl off as a duchess at a social reception, let him consider himself a winner. ! The “experiment” turns out to be difficult for both the teacher and the student, suffering from Higgins’s arrogance and despotism, but their efforts are crowned with success: the young aristocrat Freddie Ainsfort Hill falls in love with Eliza, and at the ball where the professor brings her, representatives of high society without hesitation accept her for yours. But the girl not only improved her self-care, learned good manners and correct pronunciation - she gained a sense of self-esteem, she suffers from the dismissive attitude of Higgins, who cannot understand the tragedy of the situation: she no longer wants to return to her old life and has no money, to start a new one. Offended by the professor's lack of understanding, she leaves his house. But Eliza’s training transformed not only the girl herself, but also Higgins: the old bachelor discovers that he has “gotten used” to Eliza, that he misses her. Listening to a recording of her voice on a phonograph, he suddenly hears the real voice of Eliza, who has returned.

This is the story that producer Gabriel Pascal decided to translate into a musical. To create music, he turned to two famous Broadway authors - composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, but was refused by both (after all, as already mentioned, he had little money), but young authors agreed - composer Frederick Lowe and librettist Alan Jay. Lerner. When reworking the libretto, the plot of Shaw's play underwent some changes. The afterword, which reported on Eliza's future fate (marriage to Freddie, opening her own store), was not taken into account - this was in the spirit of Shaw, who was skeptical of romantic love, but the Broadway audience would not have accepted such an ending. In addition, the life of the opposite “poles” of society - the inhabitants of the poor quarter and the aristocrats - was shown in more detail than in Shaw. In structure, the work, entitled “My Fair Lady,” is close to a musical comedy. Lowe's music is full of dance rhythms - there is a polka, a waltz, a foxtrot, and even a habanera and jota.

Even before the completion of the work, the famous artist Mary Martin, who performed on Broadway, became interested in the work of Lowe and Lerner. After listening to the finished material, she exclaimed: “How could it happen that these sweet boys lost their talent?” These words plunged Lerner into despair - however, not for long, and they were not going to invite Martin to the role of Eliza anyway.

The premiere of My Fair Lady, which took place in March 1956, was a true triumph. The popularity of the musical was fantastic, and Lowe was so shocked by the success that he treated coffee to people who had been lining up for tickets since the night. In 1964, the musical was filmed and won an Oscar in eight categories, including music, but the award went to... the person who arranged the music for the film adaptation, and Frederick Loewe was not even nominated.

In 1965, the musical was staged for the first time in the USSR, at the Moscow Operetta Theater. The role of Eliza was played by Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga.

Stage director, Honored Artist of Karelia - Vladimir Shestakov

Conductor - Honored Artist of Georgia Lev Shabanov

Choreographer - Honorary Artist of the Stavropol Territory Tatyana Shabanova

Set designer, costume designer Inna Avgustinovich

Work: musical in 2 acts

Age restrictions: 12+

English audiences of the early 20th century were eagerly awaiting a new play by the famous writer Bernard Shaw. Using artistic techniques, he talentedly and vividly condemned the order that gave rise to many of the vices of that time. He considered poverty to be misfortune and evil, destructive for the spiritual powers of man. In the popular play "Pygmalion" (1913), he told about the fate of street flower seller Eliza Dolittle. It was enough for her to get from a poverty-stricken London suburb into a cultural environment, and she immediately showed remarkable abilities for intellectual development.

Half a century later, in 1956, the American composer of Austrian origin Frederick Lowe wrote the musical My Fair Lady based on the comedy “Pygmalion”, which gained no less popularity and has not left the stages of musical theaters around the world for more than half a century. The musical shows the life of various London strata - the everyday life of the poor quarter where Eliza grew up and her father lives, the entertainment of aristocrats at the races and high society ball. The music of the play is bright, melodic, charming - sometimes it takes on the features of irony. Eliza’s dreams “What I need is a house”, “That would be great” gives way to joyful:

"I want to dance
I can dance
Until the morning.
It's like two wings
Nature gave me
My time has come."

Eliza sings these words under the influence of a great feeling that has gripped her entire being. She did not miss the chance given to her by fate, proving that every person can and should be happy.

Cast:

Eliza Dolittle -

Henry Higgins -

Hugh Pickering -

Alfred Dolittle -

Mrs Pierce -

Mrs Higgins -

Mrs Aynsford-Hill -

Freddie Aynsford-Hill-

Jimmy -

Harry -

Daughter -

The conductor is Honored Artist of Georgia Lev Shabanov

On March 25, an online broadcast of the “100 Hours of Happiness” concert took place, dedicated to Cultural Worker’s Day and International Theater Day!

Dear viewers!

Due to the cancellation of all public events until April 10, 2020, the team of the Operetta Theater decided to hold for you On March 25 at 19:00 there will be an online broadcast of the Festive Concert “100 Hours of Happiness” dedicated to Cultural Worker’s Day and International Theater Day!

Not being able to meet youin our theater hall, we work for youin the Internet space.

The musical “My Fair Lady” is filled with lively humor and amazing transformations - from a convinced bachelor to a passionate lover and from a simple merchant to a princess. You will witness how a Man comes to life... in a Man! Wonderful music, dancing and beautiful decorations create the atmosphere of a real holiday.

Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" was made world famous in the last century by the film "My Fair Lady" by George Cukor with the charming Audrey Hepburn in the title role. Her Eliza Dolittle, at first rude and primitive, later turned into a subtle and mysterious beauty, who cannot be called anything other than a beautiful lady. Now the play takes place on the theater stage, and the original libretto by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Lowe are complemented by choreography by Russian choreographer Sergei Zarubin. The first production appeared back in 1964. To see it now, just buy tickets for the musical “My Fair Lady” at the Moscow Operetta Theater on the ponominalu portal. ru. The duration of the performance is 3 hours, with one intermission. The age limit for spectators is 6 years and older.

Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics, developed a special technique. It allows him to quickly teach people from the lower classes who became rich during the Industrial Revolution the pronunciation that distinguished the English nobility. It was this that was an indicator of good origin and provided a path to the upper world.

By chance, he meets the flower girl Eliza Doolittle, a dark, uneducated girl, whom Higgins must turn into a model of good manners in six months. This is exactly the bet he made with his friend, an amateur linguist. Throughout the action, viewers watch in amazement as a dirty woman, living according to the laws of the slums, turns into a beauty, understands what respect is, and begins to see herself as a person.

Higgins wins the bet, Eliza passes a severe test, portraying a duchess in high society. But after these six months, she cannot tolerate his attitude towards her - like a soulless doll. Independence, determination, and self-respect awoke in the flower girl. True, the professor, who himself brought up all this in her, is not ready for such changes - he wants to see the same docile, dutiful fool. The Creator and his creation part ways.

The greatest interest in the musical “My Fair Lady” in Moscow is the process of creating the delicate creature itself. The heroine’s dirty language, her stubbornness, and lack of understanding of the imposed norms initially amuse and touch the audience. All the more interesting are the changes that occur to the flower girl towards the end of the production.

Social differences, love, pride are eternal themes that are relevant to this day. And in this production there is also humor, wonderful music and dance numbers performed by professional artists. Summary - watch for everyone!