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George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion at Sherman Playhouse
SHERMAN, CT: In August, The Sherman Playhouse
will open of one of the most endearing and delightful plays of the 20th
Century - George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION. A brilliantly witty
reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his
perfect female statue, PYGMALION is also a barbed attack on the British class
system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the
phoneticist Henry Higgins (Steve Manzino, Holmes, NY) is the Pygmalion figure
who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle (Jenny Schuck, Danbury), a cockney
flower girl, into the darling of high society. The one thing he overlooks is
that his "creation" has a mind of her own. Shaw's play was the basis for the
Academy Award-winning movie musical, MY FAIR LADY.
Under the direction of Jane Farnol of Kent, the cast also includes: Katherine
Almquist (Sharon), Ed Bernstein (West Hartford), Joanna and Bella Dumitrascu
(Litchfield), Glenn R. Couture (Ansonia), Bailey McCann (New Fairfield),
Elizabeth Hawley (New Preston), Charles Roth (Waterbury), Jessica Martin
(Brookfield), Patricia Michael (Dover Plains, NY), Eric LaRocca and Laura
Gilbert (both Kent), and Sheila Echevarria, Stacy-Lee Erickson, Joseph Russo,
and Jack Harding (all New Milford).
PYGMALION runs August 8,9 15,16,17 22,23, 29,30. Curtain time
is 8:00 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays, with a 2:00 p.m. Sunday matinee on August 17.
Tickets for all shows are $15.00 for general admission. An opening night gala
will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on August 8. On Thursday, August
7, senior citizens are invited to a free dress rehearsal at 8:00 p.m.
Reservations can be made online at
WWW.SHERMANPLAYERS.ORG or by calling the box office at (860) 354-3622.
The Sherman Playhouse is a regional theatre company located on 5 Route 39
North (at the intersection of Route 37 and 39) in Sherman, Conn.