My Fair Lady review – lovable musical transforms exuberantly beyond expectation
Chichester Festival theatreThe well-worn rags to riches story blossoms beyond its generic setup when Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins’ relationship develops an emotional truthFor the first hour, this production of Lerner and Loewe’s musical glides along smoothly enough; the cockney flower girl sings of rain in Spain, the elocution professor rails at her for murdering the English language with her guttersnipe vow…