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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Catey Sullivan - For the Sun-Times

‘My Fair Lady’ revival gives us a fabulously empowered Eliza and more

Shereen Ahmed as the street-smart flower girl Eliza Doolittle in The Lincoln Center Theater Production of “My Fair Lady,” currently playing at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. (© Joan Marcus)

Roughly 65 years since it debuted on Broadway, the music of “My Fair Lady” remains as lush and melodious as you’d expect from an indisputable classic. All those glorious show-tune oldies — “On the Street Where You Live,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” — sound fabulous in a production running through July 10 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre.

In the national tour of director Bartlett Sher’s Tony Award-winning production for Lincoln Center, the musical inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” turns away from the rom-com aesthetic that defined both the 1956 Broadway debut starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews and the 1964 movie starring Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

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