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ARCHIVE - PAST EVENT
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner,
Music by Frederick Loewe
adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play
and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion
A perfectly ‘loverly’ musical
"An irresistibly fresh, generous and good-looking new staging ... unfailingly impressive." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman
"It's unlikely that there will be a better production of anything, anywhere in Scotland this summer, so book your tickets now!" Alison Anderson, Perthshire Advertiser
1910: on a cold March evening in Covent Garden, the overbearing Henry Higgins, a Professor of Phonetics, encounters a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle. Whilst appalled by Eliza’s strangled vowels and missing consonants, Higgins opines that it is only her mangled English and coarse manners that separate her from the so-called Upper Classes . . .
And so results an outrageous wager between Higgins and the amiable Colonel Pickering: in just six months, Higgins promises to transform Eliza so completely that she will pass for a Duchess at the lavish Embassy Ball. But Eliza’s gradual metamorphosis under Higgins’s relentless tuition comes at a terrible price. Too eloquent for a flower girl, yet without the breeding and education of the aristocracy, what will become of her when the wager is over?
Lerner and Loewe’s bewitching tale of a flower girl’s transformation into the toast of London society is one of the greatest musicals of all time. Featuring unforgettable songs such as I Could Have Danced All Night, On The Street Where You Live, Get Me To The Church On Time and many others, this much-loved musical is sure to be a sell-out!
Featuring a large cast of actor-musicians, sumptuous costumes and a spectacular stage design, this will be a perfectly ‘loverly’ way for you to celebrate 60 years of magic at the Theatre in the Hills.
“...this thoroughly enjoyable production is one of real quality."
Robert Dawson Scott, The Times
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"When staying in Pitlochry during the early part of the war, I chanced to see a stately house with a fairly large garden, quite close to the town. I at once realised that here my dream theatre might well be established in this fashionable resort right in the heart of Scotland"… John Stewart, Founder of Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
