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...lyrics for Brigadoon, Camelot and My Fair Lady; and British Actress Liz Robertson, 26; she for the first time, he for the eighth; in Billingshurst, England. Lerner, who earlier this month was divorced from College Administrator Nina Bushkin, met Robertson two years ago, when she was chosen to play Eliza Doolittle in a London revival of My Fair Lady...
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Generous Uncle Tom designs and builds a play cabin in the backyard for his favorite niece Eliza...
Kirsten Skrinde as lusty, honest Rita and Eliza Gagnon as imaginative, quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film...
When the wily Odysseus (Church), he whom Homer called "the man of many devices," thinks up the ruse of the Trojan horse, Troy falls. In Trojan Women by Euripides, the women are to be parceled out among the victors. Queen Hecuba (Eliza Ward) leads the women in a keening catalogue of I woe: she has lost her husband Priam, her son Hector, and will eventually lose all of her children...
Although the Dunster version of My Fair Lady shines during Milton's scenes and when Col. Picering (Marc Dolan--the one actor not cast in the movie's all-pervasive mold) calls the police to report Eliza's disappearance, the audience expects more. A production of one of the most popular musicals of all time--in which every song is a hit and the audience can practically recite favorite lines along with the actors--should not be picayune and imitative. The Dunster crew shows how worn a top-notch musical can become when it loses its youthful flair...