Vol. 1, Issue 3
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October 21, 2022
RED DEVIL POS LHS plays Pygmalion: On stage tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday If students and staff didn’t get a chance to see Lowell High School’s rendition of Pygmalion last night, they still have three chances. LHS will present the play, based on the musical, My Fair Lady, tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Pygmalion focuses on Eliza Doolittle, a woman from Britain’s working class, who uses English improperly. She speaks with a lot of slang and with a funny accent. Two men, both linguists, Colonel Pickering and Henry Higgins, argue about whether or not they could pass off Eliza as a duchess if they just taught her to properly speak. The play has been referenced in over twenty- ve movies and television episodes including The Simpsons, Dr. Who, and She’s All That. The cast and crew of Pygmalion have been working for weeks to bring this production to the high school stage. Jalyssa Miller returns in the lead role of Eliza. She told the Post, “I think I was cast as Eliza Doolittle in the play because the role just t me the best. I really enjoy dramatic acting and the ending scenes are very emotional.” Miller says that the role is challenging because the character goes through tremendous transformations from the beginning to the ending of the play. Miller plans on studying theatre in college, and she appreciates the lessons that she’s learned concerning dialect. Quinton Cripe plays Colonel Pickering, and he says the hardest part of the role is getting the accent down. Cripe is very proud of the work that the LHS
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