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17 January 2025 - 05:00
You might not think that a musical, written by Austrian-American duo Alan Lerner and Frederick Loewe in the 1950s, set in Edwardian London and based on a 1913 play by Anglo-Irishman George Bernard Shaw — that was, in turn, first performed in German — would resonate in SA today.
But that is exactly the case with Pieter Toerien and Cape Town Opera’s My Fair Lady, which opens in Johannesburg next week. ..
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