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Centrals Mx Fair Lady Admirable production of musical By ItllIIIIII MaeIJIAN Examiner Staff Reporter My Fair Lady is delightfully amusing and ap pealing musical It provides an audience with everything laughter sadness songs dances suspense gaie ly and carefullyvorehestrated dramatic plot For these reasons My Fair Lady rates as one of the finest musical comedies ever produc ed At the same time however they are also the reasons why this musical rates as one of the most demanding disciplined and assiduous tasks for the leading players of any musical And for the most part the opening performance of My Fair Lady Thursday by the students and teachers of Barrie entral ollegiate demon strated to the audience of 700 why this musical is such classic The massiveness of the pro duction requirements in stag ing the musical from the choreographic orchestration to the frequent change of stage scenery to the precise co ordination of the music with the drama places the highest demands on evervone involved Blaine Webb left as Colonel Pickering Pieter Ter Siege as Higgins Sinatra roast Its Frank Sinatras turn to be roasted by the harmlesst caustic Dean Martin on another Dean Martin elebrity Roast telecasting on the IV Televi sion Tuesday lltehruary Host and head roaster Mar tin is joined by roster of celebrity roasters from motion pictures television and the political world EMMA mun AS NIAI ITEIIAIIEIT Prices are gettig smaller and smaller and smaller Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried We Collinmvood Wasaga Beach Midland Barrie Meaford 7269944 in the musicals production This is why the Central stage and technical crew and the drama and musical director deserve so much praise The students and teachers at Central Collegiate did it They put it all together and staged an admirable production of My Fair Lady This was evident in the frequent applauses the audience gave the stage and musical cast EGOCENTRIC My Fair Lady tells the story about Henry Higgins an egocentric vain aristocratic phonetics professor and how he accepts bet that he can transform Eliza Doolittle young lady raised in Londons skidltrow area to the stature of princess or duchess And Hig gns can do all this simply by teaching her to unlcarn her hor rible slum accent and to learn the dialect of the aristocracy Higgins wins his bet but in the process he experiences number of reverses at the hands of stubborn but brave Eliza Its the battle of the sexes at its highest level Brigit Wilson Grade 13 stu dent plays the role of Eliza Doolittle Miss Wilson was almost brilliant in her role iler acting which required her to at packages $188 To urtl CORRECTION The 5676 Bayfield St Barrie store advertised in Wednesdays Examiner COTTONELLE TOILET TISSUE rolls per pack with limit of packs per customer at packs $188 This was incorrect It should have read rolls per package with limit of per Customer change frequently from haisn Cockney accent to the speech mannerisms of the English aristocracy was marvellous And her stage theatrics were thrilling to watch The tactless conceited vain Higgins was played by Pieter Ter Stege also Grade 13 stu dent Ter Stege with his fine aristocratic English accent and imperious stage mannerisms gave the audience clever and dramatically sound interpreta tion of Henry Higgins My Fair Lady was adapted fmm the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion Because Shaw always places demand on his readers and audience to engage all their senses in his plays My Fair Lady demanded close attention to its dramatic dialogue by the au dience Moreover the main characters in Thursdays musical were well coached by director Meg ODonal to make full use of the important stage techniques of timing voice in flection and bodily expres sions EAItIIERCING VOWELS Mark Kostandoff Grade 13 student almost stole the limelight from Higgins and Doolittle in his role as the necr MEILUN DT DENTURE THERAPIST Complete Denture Service Hours am pm Mon thru Sat 280 Dunlop St Barrie 7286810 Member Denturist Society OSTARTS Tooavt We hae been ALONE HELD OVER 2ND WEEK AT 715 915 An Astral Films dowel dustman Alfred Doolit tletElizas father Kostandoffs brusque ear piercing vowels and garrulous and drunken mannerisms pro vided the audience with many moments of uproarious laughter The 25 student musicians who provided the music for My Fair Lady were kept busy throughout the threehour per formance The musical direc tor Mary Wase deserves warm praise for putting the music and acting all together Commendable performances in My Fair Lady were given by Blaine Webb as Pickering Higgins phonetics friend Sharon Lowe as Higgins suf ferable patient mother Kathleen Dewar as the pro fessors houscmaid and Mike Clark as Elizas wooer Freddy Eynsford Hill The actors choruses and quartet also delighted the au dience with such popular songs as With Little Bit of Luck The Rain In Spain Ascot Gavotte Wouldnt It Be Luverly and Get Me to the Church On Time There were however few spots in My Fair Ladv that need touching up 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