Who says you have to wait for the weekend to go out?

 Tonight make your way down to the Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater for Strikethrough by the fine folks from the Seattle School , this month featuring C. Davida Ingram performing “What a Body Can Do”.  Doors at 8 pm.

Tuesday is opening night of My Fair Lady at the Paramount.   If you’ve somehow gone your whole life without seeing this play (or the excellent Audrey Hepburn-starring, Marnie Nixon-singing film version), this clever musical adaptation of a George Bernard Shaw play updating the Pygmalion legend by having an arrogant professor of linguistics, Henry Higgins, boast to his pal Colonel Pickering that he can train any woman to speak so well that she can easily pass as nobility.  Challenge arrives in the form of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her ne’er do well father.  This revival of the play celebrates its 50th anniversary and is well worth seeing to hear the many classic songs the musical has contributed to the showtune lexicon alone.

Tuesday night from 7 - 8:30 pm at the Central branch of the Seattle Public Library, novelist Alice Hoffman reads from her new work The Third Angel.  On Wednesday night at the North East branch, Theodore Duncan, representing the Seattle Opera Guild, presents a preview of I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini.

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