Wel­come to July’s episode of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, where host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and lore of the musi­cal the­atre. Tune in at 2pm slt/pacific on Sat­ur­day, July 18th for this month’s episode: “All About Eliza” — an episode that has been in var­i­ous stages of plan­ning for sev­er­al years. 

Alan J. Lern­er and Fred­er­ick Loewe’s My Fair Lady opened on March 15, 1956 at The Mark Hellinger The­atre on Broad­way. The show rep­re­sents not just the pin­na­cle of the artists’ work, but paid homage to the “clas­sics” of the 20thC musi­cal stage that came before it in the same breath as it pre­saged the changes that were on the way for musi­cals, and cul­ture in general.

Cale­do­nia is joined by first world col­league, direc­tor and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Chris Nar­dine, to dis­cuss the show: its pro­duc­tion boons and chal­lenges, and why it remains a rel­e­vant piece of musi­cal lit­er­a­ture whose cen­tral issues can still be debat­ed and inter­pret­ed, even today.

Join the live audi­ence at Sean­chai Library’s Com­mu­ni­ty Exhib­it at SL23B:
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