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Before the revisionist My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, Richard Chamberlain went on the warpath, trying to get his co-star sacked in favor of her understudy. Without having seen the understudy -- but having endured Melissa Errico's hapless Eliza Doolittle -- one can be sure Chamberlain was right about her. Rarely has a plum Broadway role been so ineptly handled. While Errico sings gloriously if unimaginatively, she is an unconvincing Cockney whose linguistic foibles wobble from syllable to syllable, quite a handicap in a show about the social importance of accents. She is plausible only in two feminist-flavored moments...
...child-custody battle against Woody Allen than she went back on the attack. After describing Allen as unfit to be left alone with his own children, acting state-supreme-court justice Elliot Wilk ruled that Allen could see his adopted daughter Dylan (who has asked to be called Eliza) only if the child's psychiatrist agreed, and could have only supervised visits totaling six hours a week with his biological son Satchel...
Three players saw significant time at the first singles positions. Junior Co-Captain Eliza Parker alone played at least three matches in four different singles positions, and competed at each of the three doubles positions at different times with different partners...
...other two doubles teams also posted victories, but in closer matches. Co-Captain Eliza Parker and sophomore Agata Passent regained the momentum in the third set for a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win and the newly-formed duo of freshman Erica Cheng and sophomore Kendra Harris provided tiebreaker suspense in a 7-6 (11-9), 6-3 victory...
...loss in Princeton, N.J. to William and Mary was actually closer than it appears on paper. William and Mary is one of the top-ranked teams in the East, and "every match was tight," according to Co-Captain Eliza Parker...