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Could Eliza Be A Fair Lady to Both Herself and Higgins?
Henry Higgins ( Harry Hadden-Paton) and Eliza Dolittle (Laura Benanti) dance together. When Lerner and Loewe turned Shaw’s Pygmalion into...
Rebecca Burnham
Feb 13, 20259 min read


History of a Broken Ending
My Fair Lady's famous final line I grew up on My Fair Lady . I have watched it over, and over, and over. To this day, when I feel joyous...
Rebecca Burnham
Feb 6, 20256 min read


The Song That Plays Hard to Get
Sky Masterson pursues Sarah Brown with "I'll Know" Not every musical tells a love story. But a huge number of successful ones do. This is...
Rebecca Burnham
Jan 29, 20258 min read


"I Want": Making the Story Matter
Elphaba sings "The Wizard and I" While the opening numbers of a musical give us a taste of what’s coming and get us oriented to the world...
Rebecca Burnham
Jan 16, 20256 min read


Pulling the Audience Onboard
Opening of The Music Man by the Washington Park Playhouse in Albany, NY This is the first post in my Building Blocks of a Musical series,...
Rebecca Burnham
Jan 8, 20257 min read
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