My Fair Lady

From left, 2020 FSU/Asolo Conservatory graduate Jonathan Grunert stars as Professor Henry Higgins. The last time Sarasota area audiences saw Jonathan Grunert he ...

[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). “There’s only one song she sings while I’m on stage, ‘Without You,’ and I barely say a word, so I just get to stand there listening to this gorgeous voice. A lot of work went into that and that translated immediately to Higgins, not only the ability to dialect, but to look at the character’s perspective on the world.” Grunert doesn’t get to sing full out the way Madeline Powell as Eliza and Cameron Loyal as her potential love interest Freddy Eynsford-Hill get to do. Music by Frederick Loewe, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. The role was written for Rex Harrison,who famously talk-sung his songs on stage and the 1964 film. “The real focus has been on what Shaw was looking at, the relationships between classes, between men and women,” Grunert said. “Our Eliza can sing circles around anybody,” he says of Powell. “I really have enjoyed seeing so much of the country. It’s Grunert’s first experience traveling the country. Grunert plays a linguistics expert who bets his friend and colleague Col. 13-15 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.