XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY FALL MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF MY FAIR LADY

XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY FALL MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF MY FAIR LADY



The Xavier and Brophy Theatre Departments are pleased to announce their fall musical production, My Fair Lady. Performances will be held on Wednesday, October 17, Thursday, October 18, and Saturday, October 20, 2007, all at 7:00 p.m. The production will take place in the Kemper and Ethel Marley Theater in the Virginia G. Piper Performing Arts Center, located on the Xavier campus at 4710 North Fifth Street in Phoenix. All shows are open to the community and tickets are available at the door. Tickets may also be purchased by calling the Jackson Box Office at (602) 240-3161. Tickets are $7.00 for all patrons.

The 40 cast members and crew are students who attend either Xavier College Preparatory or Brophy College Preparatory. Eliza Doolittle will be played by Vanessa Vasquez (‘08), Professor Higgins will be played by Mike Wren (‘08), Colonel Pickering will be played by Julian Micallef (‘08), Alfred P. Doolittle will be played by Victor Cervantes (‘09), Mrs. Pearce will be played by Caroline Dunaway (‘10), Freddy will played by Andrew Forsyth (‘10), and Mrs. Higgins will be played by Stephanie Barnes (’09). The ensemble also includes senior students Merry Herbst, Troy Lovelady, Meghan Luther, Claude Renner, Tyler Ross, Chelsea Simonetti, Mandi Snyder and Markel Sumler.

Xavier drama teacher Janice Robillard will direct the production with Student Assistant Directors Kelsey Schmidt (’08) and Sean Waters (’08). The Stage Manager is Nicole Fries (‘09), the Assistant Stage Manager is Joanna Peterson (‘09), and Alexa Unkefer (‘08) will do hair and makeup design.
Music will be directed by award-winning Jerry Wayne Harkey, Artist in Residence at Xavier. All faculty technical and lighting designers will be assisted by Xavier and Brophy students, and all technical elements will be built and executed by students.

Featuring music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is a masterpiece musical that still upholds the distinction it earned in 1956 as “Musical of the Century”. It presents a story about appearances, acceptance, and the conflicts between social classes and men and women.