'Rags to riches stories are as old as time but rarely fail to entertain and with costumes as lavish as this'
Lerner and Loewe's world-famous musical touches down in Manchester this week. Featuring that iconic score by Frederick Loewe, the story debuted as a stage musical in the 1950s, before being made into a 1964 film starring Audrey Hepburn.
Read more: "A world with only 140 words a day... and Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman" Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons review Charlotte Kennedy as Eliza is just the right mix of tough and vulnerable and is both comical and endearing. Her singing voice is excellent too, not to mention her vocal stamina, which sees her segue effortlessly from breathless chatter to those super high notes.
Then there is the suitably no-nonsense housekeeper with a rather superior ability to carry a tune, played by the famous soprano Lesley Garrett. The role of Eliza's father, dustman Alfred P. Doolittle, fits Adam Woodyatt, unsurprisingly, like a glove, as the Cockney geezer cannily uses his daughter's new relationship as as a vehicle to get rich.
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