- March 11, 2025
The City Repertory Theatre will perform a special staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's, “Pygmalion,” starting 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, and running through the weekend with a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee.
“Shaw is one of the great playwrights in the English language, and you never see him done,” said Director John Sbordone. “We had the opportunity to bring that to Palm Coast and the surrounding areas because we had the people that could do it. He has always been one of my favorite playwrights and in our theater, as a staged reading, it fits beautifully.”
The play introduces the audience to four colorful and interesting characters in the world of theater: Eliza Doolittle, the cockney girl turned duchess; Henry Higgens, the arrogant teacher of speech who transforms the waif into a lady; Col. Pickering, the kind old gent who nurtures Doolittle’s spirit; and Alfred Doolittle, the irrepressible con man who can charm bartenders and millionaires alike.
The cast includes Annie Gaybis, whose Broadway and film credits include working with such diverse stars as Kevin Costner, Burt Reynolds and Eddie Murphy, as Eliza; Robert Gill, a noted area Shakespearean actor and creator of such one-man-shows as Mark Twain and Henry Flagler, as Henry Higgens; Jack Wilbern, who after 25 years as a Navy pilot has acted in theaters up and down the East Coast, as Pickering; and Paul Hunt, Capricorn Records artist, playwright and judge of The Voice at McCharacters, as Doolittle.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and can be purchased by calling the box office at 585-9415. City Repertory Theatre is located at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B 207.
