Chicago Tribune - Recommended
"..."My Fair Lady" has some of the most beautiful music ever written for the theater: "On the Street Where You Live," "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Get Me to the Church on Time," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" The songs, as sticky as the ground in Covent Garden, are masterpieces of lyrical simplicity. These Frederick Loewe classics are famous, funny, populist, beautiful and great fun to stage, all at the same time."
Chicago Sun Times - Recommended
"...Roughly 65 years since it debuted on Broadway, the music of “My Fair Lady” remains as lush and melodious as you’d expect from an indisputable classic. All those glorious show-tune oldies — “On the Street Where You Live,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” — sound fabulous in a production running through July 10 at the Cadillac Palace Theatre."
Let's Play Theatrical Reviews - Highly Recommended
"...Once in a while, you get a theatrical production so enchanting and capturing that you leave the theater wanting more. In My Fair Lady at the Cadillac Palace, audiences receive such a treat in this delightful performance. It's theater at its finest.:
Around The Town Chicago - Recommended
"...The Lincoln Center Theater's production of "My Fair Lady" was nominated for ten Tony Awards and is now "on the road". Chicago is always a stop for their productions as they know how our Chicago audiences adore quality productions. The story is fairly simple. Eliza Doolittle is the daughter of a chimney sweep, Alfred Doolittle. She sells flowers on the street to survive and dreams of one day having a position in an actual flower shop instead of walking on the streets of London. On one of these nights, she meets Professor Henry Higgins ( who is a speech specialist) who thinks, or in fact , in his mind knows that he can make her a "lady" fitting to work in a nice shop. An old friend, Colonel Pickering, who is staying with Higgins, challenges him to do so, and the story goes full speed ahead."
Chicago Theatre Review - Recommended
"...If you like the classics, this is definitely a classic. Traditional and standard to what you might have seen if you saw the Loewe and Lerner version when it debuted 1956. It is family friendly, good for the young and the old. For me, being in the middle of those two demographics made it slightly harder to appreciate, but it did bring back memories of the matinees my Bubbie would get me dressed up for when I was a little kid. "
The Fourth Walsh - Highly Recommended
"...MY FAIR LADY is a fan favorite! And I'm a huge fan! This production is a sensory explosion of colors and sounds. And the good feelings are delivered by a talented cast and crew. In these volatile times, the tried and true provides solace and enjoyment. The familiar and amusing songs continue to monopolize my thoughts since the curtain call. I highly recommend MY FAIR LADY as a loverly summer escape!"
Chicagoland Musical Theatre - Recommended
"...Loewe's music, as performed with as full an orchestrations as economics allow, will perhaps always give that Irishman the side-eye. And Lerner, in fairness, only offers this in the way of how to end the piece: "There are tears in Eliza's eyes. She understands.""
Chicago On Stage - Recommended
"...Late in My Fair Lady, Eliza Doolittle, escaping from Professor Higgins' tyranny, leaves his dwelling to discover that Freddy Eynsford-Hill is still outside singing "On the Street Where You Live," apparently having permanently attached himself to Higgins' front stoop. Such are the altogether not attractive romantic options that the play affords to its leading lady. And in the Lincoln Center's still very entertaining touring version of the show, now playing at the Cadillac Palace Theatre, the choices somehow manage to be even worse than usual."
Picture This Post - Recommended
"...When it comes to musical theater standards, overtures for the orchestra have gone the way of nylon stockings and neckties for the audience. Contemporary composers tend to dig right into their score. But My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical that turned Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle into household names, greets its 2022 crowd at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre the old-fashioned way - with a composite of show numbers."
Splash Magazine - Highly Recommended
"...Is it possible to update a musical theatre masterpiece and inject it with exciting new choreography and new ideas? Absolutely as proven by the Lincoln Center Theater's production of Lerner & Loewe's MY FAIR LADY in Chicago for just a few performances. My Fair Lady is the winner of five Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Revival of Musical and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival, five Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical Revival, and three Drama League Awards including Best Musical Revival."
BroadwayWorld - Somewhat Recommended
"...If you could change your life by participating in an experiment, would you do it? That's exactly the decision Eliza Doolittle must make as she is plucked from obscurity and scrutinized by an esteemed linguist in My Fair Lady. Based exclusively on the plot of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and made famous by the film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, this intellectual musical explores important topics of class, privilege, and what really happens when you get what you want. Though this show at Chicago's Cadillac Palace brings to life time-honored classics from a sweeping soundtrack such as I Could Have Danced All Night and On the Street Where You Live, its three-hour runtime and dialogue-heavy script can make it a challenging watch for some viewers."
NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...We’ve grown accustomed to her face. And of Victorian flower girl Eliza Doolittle being portrayed as a helpless waif who develops a crush on the professor who helps give her a new life through phonetics. And Henry Higgins may reciprocate after the possibility of losing Eliza: only the imaginations of mid-century audiences of several decades ago wishing for a happy ending know for sure.
Not in Bartlett Sher’s visionary rethinking of the classic musical “My Fair Lady.” What is remarkable is that Sher has made this an entirely different show without changing one word or lyric of Alan Jay Lerner."