I watched the My Fair Lady musical today at KLCC. It was totally unexpected because I was not planning on going. I love the movie with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, and must have seen it at least ten times. Audrey Hepburn plays a flower seller, and Rex Harrison is a phoneticist. He makes a bet with his friend that he can train her to speak beautiful English and fool everyone into believing that she is a duchess at the embassy ball. It’s a brilliant movie, if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.

So when my mum asked me whether I was interested in going, I said no, because I didn’t think the musical would compare. She managed to get free tickets and my parents were going to go this afternoon. However, my grandmother was admitted to hospital yesterday with some chest pains, and had to undergo quite a few tests today, so my mum accompanied her, leaving me to go to KLCC with my dad.

I must say that I’m very glad I went. Professor Higgins was played by this person called Clive Carter. Once of his past accomplishments was to act as a police captain in the Da Vinci code movie! He was really excellent, his singing and acting was superb, I think that he was the main stay of the whole play. Eliza Doolittle was played by Poppy Tierney, who was also good, but I kept comparing her to Audrey Hepburn. In terms of singing, Poppy was obviously better, as Audrey Hepburn didn’t do the singing in the movie, but Audrey Hepburn was a much better actress.

There were certain things that kept distracting me during the musical. For example, there’s one part where Professor Higgins throws up a book in the air, and leaves it to land on the floor. I felt so bad watching the book land, I kept thinking of all the pages that would be bent! Secondly, was this guy sitting next to my dad. Within the first few minutes of the start, he fell asleep, and started SNORING! So loudly too…what a waste of the ticket! I felt like poking him so that he would wake up, and not disturb the rest of us. His wife was another annoying woman. She kept singing together with the actors and actresses. Hello, this is a musical! We’re here to hear the singers, not you singing!

Anyway, two thumbs up for the UK cast of My Fair Lady!

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