Glendale Centre Theatre's first musical of the year is bound to be a smash hit. My Fair Lady, the classic Lerner and Loewe musical based on George Bernard's play, Pygmalion, has enchanted audiences for decades and 2007 will be no exception. How could it be, with songs like "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" and "I've Grow Accustomed to Her Face?"

Rex Harrison look-alike, Kelly Oien, (as Henry Higgins), and dulcet-voiced, dimple-cheeked, Kate Chadwick (as Eliza Doolittle) dominate the show with their story of how an egotistical language professor (on a bet) transforms a "dirty guttersnipe" into a "duchess" in six months simply by teaching her to speak properly. The professor's quiet lecture on the proper use of the King's English, followed by Eliza's hesitant and then confident singing of "The Rain in Spain" is moving as well as joyous.

Admirable performances are also given by Mario DiGregoro (as the stuffy but sweet Colonel Pickering) and crowd-pleasing Richard Malmos (as the rowdy, fun-loving Alfred P. Doolittle). Chanlon Kaufman (featured in last year's Pirates of Penzance) returns (as Freddie Eynsford-Hill), with his "to-die-for" good looks and his "enough-to-make-you-swoon" tenor voice, singing "On the Street Where You Live."

A talented dance ensemble and chorus make up the rest of this wonderful cast as they "wow" the audience with breath-taking jumps, twirls and tumbles, and finely tuned quartet numbers. And Director Tim Dietlein's tableau scene at the very end of the show will surprise veteran Fair Lady enthusiasts and send them away smugly satisfied.

My Fair Lady is playing now through April 7, Wednesdays -Sundays (with 2 weekly matinees).

Call (818) 244-8481 for times, ticket prices and reservations.