Please Allow me to introduce the cast of the 2008 LV Rogers Production of My Fair Lady,


1. Rachel Farguharson - Eliza
2. Gus Fowler - Pickering
3. Elisa Hemphill – Mrs. Eynsford-Hill (maid chorus/ Tottenham court)
4. Vida Sinclair – Mrs. Higgins
5. Wade Courson – Henry Higgins
6. Geordi Campos – Freddy Eynsford-Hill
7. Matt Clarkson – Alfred P. Doolittle
8. Kylee Bush – Mrs. Pearce (ball)
9. Francesca Defeo – Maid (opera/ Tottenham court m/ ascot/ ball) 2 ch.
10. Laura Fleming – Maid (opera/ Tottenham court m/ ascot/ ball) 2 ch.
11. Sara Blanchard – Main (opera/ tottenham court m/ ascot/ ball) 2 ch.
12. Aquila Brown – Butler (opera/ tottenham court b) wealthier street clothes
13. Charlie Pears-Smith- Mrs. Hopkins (maid chorus/ ascot/ ball) 2ch.
14. Edgar Jaeden vien – Professor Zoltan karpathy (Ascot employee)
15. Harley Martin – Tottenham street boy (ball boy) 2ch.
16. Adam Laurie – Bystander (window cleaner boy/ ball boy) 3ch.
17. Dallas Sauer – James (ascot/ ball) 2 ch.
18. Trestan Shunter – Harry/ busker (ascot/ ball) 2ch.
19. Danny Schell – Bartender (ascot/ Q of Transylvania escort -ball) 2ch.
20. Mathew Spearman – Lord Boxington (opera/ascot/ball) wealthier street clothes
21. Rachel Berg – Lady Boxington (opera/Tottenham court/ ascot/ball) wealthier street clothes 2ch.
22. Chelan Darough – flower girl (Tottenham court/ ball) 2ch.
23. Conner Defeo – Police Officer (opera/ ascot/the Ambassador at the ball)
24. Heidi Booth – opera/ Tottenham court mother/ ascot/ the Ambassador’s wife 3ch.
25. Hannah Deboer – street/angry woman (ascot/ball) 3 ch.
26. Natasha Bidinoff-Gardiner – Daughter of wealthier woman (opera/ Tottenham court/ ball)
27. Jackson Berry - Chauffer/ascot Steward/ Footman 3ch.
28. Avalon funk – flower girl/ ascot/ ball 2ch.
29. Dylann Mcpherson – flower girl/ ascot/ ball 2ch.
30. Elise Tim-Bottos – smudge/flower girl/ ascot/ball 2ch.
31. Larissa Napora – flower girl/ ascot/ball 2 ch.
32. Anna Backus – opera/ Tottenham court/ ascot/ ball (working class clothes)
33. Emily McClelland – opera/ Tottenham court/ ascot/ ball (working class clothes)
34. Olivia Bogaard – opera/ Tottenham court/ ascot/ Queen of Transylvania at the ball (working class clothes)
35. Kyran Cunningham – bystander/ shoe maker Tottenham court/ ascot/ Dr Themistocles Stephanos at the ball
36. Cooper McGinnis – Ascot/ ball
37. Brianna Scrutton – opera/ maid/ ascot/ ball
38. Jethro Herring – Opera/ Tottenham court/ ascot/ ball

Rehearsal Schedule & Details

My Fair Lady Rehearsal Schedule & Details:

Please keep the following times open for rehearsals:

3:30-6:30 Fridays & 2:00-5:00 Saturdays
Parent pick-up time: 6:40 and 5:10 in the turnabout.

ATTENDENCE IS CRITICAL!
Please be on time and ready to work!
If you are unable to attend for some unforeseen reason please,
E-mail Kyoko at kokyo_japan@hotmail.com.
*keep clothing comfortable and casual.


As we draw nearer to our performance dates, these three hour rehearsals will be extended one hour.

Please keep the two weeks before the performance entirely open.

Performance dates:

Wednesday, December 10 –Final Dress Rehearsal (Preview)
Thursday, December 11- Opening Night (7:30 Performance)
Friday, December 12- Evening Performance (7:30)
Saturday, December 13- Matinee Performance (2:00)
Saturday, December 13- Evening Performance (7:30)

Film Information:

To enhance our set, we will be filming in various locations around Nelson the week of Sunday October 5th to Sunday October 12th.
Please keep the October long weekend open. If this is not possible, please inform Kelsey or Kyoko ASAP. Although our filming crew is made up of LVR students, we will have the opportunity to work with a professional cinematographer from Toronto if we shoot during this week.

WELCOME! information for parents

My Fair Lady



Greetings Parents!

Welcome to the My Fair Lady blog we will be posting news and information here through out the process.

As you all know, your son or daughter has been cast in this year’s LV Rogers musical, My Fair Lady. Although the experience most certainly will be rewarding and educational for your child, enormous energy and time commitment are needed from all to ensure a smashingly vibrant opening night. Thank you for supporting your child in this worthwhile artistic endeavour.

Tim Bullen, the musical director, Lynette Lightfoot, the choreographer and I are extremely excited about this project and about working with talented and enthusiastic youth. Throughout the rehearsal process, we expect total commitment not only to the play, but also to school work.

In order to stay within our budget, we are asking that all cast members pay $50. This money will go towards the professional dance sessions your child will be receiving during the rehearsal process.

If you have questions or concerns, please leave me a message at 352-5538 and I will return your call promptly. I can also be contacted by email at rsheppard@sd8.bc.ca. As well, Kyoko Conne (kokyo_japan@hotmail.com) and Kelsey Dergousoff, our two stage managers, are available to answer questions. Rehearsal information and news updates will be posted outside the drama room and on a My Fair Lady blog.

- Robyn Sheppard

Synopsis for My Fair Lady

Henry Higgins (Wade Courson), an arrogant, irascible professor of phonetics, boasts to a new

acquaintance, Colonel Pickering (Gus Fowler), that he can teach any woman to speak so

"properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess. The person whom he is shown thus teaching is

one Eliza Doolittle (Rachel Farguharson), a young woman with a horrendous Cockney accent who

is selling flowers on the street. After overhearing this, Eliza finds her way to the professor's

house and offers to pay for speech lessons, so that she can work in a flower shop. Pickering is

intrigued and wagers that Higgins cannot back up his claim; Higgins takes Eliza on free of charge

as a challenge to his skills.Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Matt Clarkson), a dustman, arrives

three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some

money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's genuineness,

natural gift for language and especially his brazen lack of morals (Doolittle explains, "Can't afford

'em!").Eliza goes through many forms of speech training, such as speaking with marbles in her

mouth and trying to recite the sentence "In Hertford, Hereford, Hampshire, hurricanes hardly

ever happen" without dropping the 'h', and to say "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"

rather than "The rine in spine sties minely in the pline". At first, she makes no progress (due to

Higgins's harsh approach to teaching), but just as she, Higgins, and Pickering are exhausted and

about to give up, Higgins softens his attitude and gives an eloquent speech about the beauty and

history behind the English language. Eliza tries one more time and finally "gets it"; she instantly

begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.Higgins takes her on her first public

appearance to Ascot Racecourse, where she makes a good impression with her stilted, but

genteel manners, only to shock everyone by a sudden and vulgar lapse into Cockney; "C'mon

Dover, move your bloomin' arse!". Higgins, who dislikes the pretentiousness of the upper class,

partly conceals a grin behind his hand, as if to say "I wish I had said that!"The bet is won when

Eliza successfully poses as a mysterious lady of patently noble rank at an embassy ball, despite

the unexpected presence of a Hungarian phonetics expert trained by Higgins. Higgins's callous

treatment of Eliza afterwards, especially his indifference to her future prospects, leads her to

walk out on him, leaving him mystified by her ingratitude. When she is gone however, he comes

to the horrified realization that he has "grown accustomed to her face." Putting aside his

resentment about the intrusion on his life and toward women in general, Higgins finds Eliza the

next day and attempts to talk her into coming back to him. During a testy exchange, Higgins's

ego gets the better of him, and his former student rejects him.Higgins makes his way home,

stubbornly predicting that Eliza will be ruined without him and come crawling back. However,

his bravado collapses and he is reduced to playing old phonograph recordings of her voice

lessons. To Higgins' great delight, Eliza chooses that moment to return to him.

taken from, IMDb.com