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Chestnut Hill College Presents "My Fair Lady"

Chestnut Hill College Presents "My Fair Lady"

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Cristina Diaz
Media and Community Relations Manager
215.753.3684

Philadelphia, PA- Chestnut Hill College’s Music Department presents the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe classic musical, “My Fair Lady,” Friday through Sunday, April 8-10, at the College’s Motherhouse Auditorium. There will be four shows starting with Friday’s show on April 8 at 8 p.m., two shows on Saturday, April 9 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and a matinee on Sunday, April 10 at 2 p.m.

“My Fair Lady” is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” The musical follows Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower seller who takes speech lessons from Henry Higgins, a professor, so that she may pass as a duchess at an embassy ball.

Through arduous training, Eliza learns how to speak English “properly,” and transforms into a lady respected and adored by all classes. However, she finds herself in a difficult position, now too refined to go back to her old life and without the means or desire to live life as a lady of leisure.

Primary roles are played by Penelope Pucci ’16 as Eliza Doolittle, Jason Lazrus as Freddie Eynsford-Hill, Brian Langdon ‘16 as Colonel Pickering, Michael Yancey ’15 as Henry Higgins, Liz Ben-Yaacov as Mrs. Higgins, and Mollie Durkin ’16 as Mrs. Pearce. The show is directed by Sarah Dugan and Emma Massey ’17, serving as student music director.

Ticket costs are $12 for general admission and $5 for seniors, children and students. Call 215.753.3707 for tickets and more information.

 

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Celebrating more than 90 years of tradition and risk, Chestnut Hill College is a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition that offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master’s and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master’s universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since 1924, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life’s challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

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