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March/April 2014

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Lady Like

Photo: Linda A. Cicero

Backstage during a rehearsal for My Fair Lady, Hye Jeong Yoon, ’14, and Jessica Asperger, ’13, touch up their makeup for the “smashing, positively dashing” Royal Ascot scene—in which a transformed Eliza Doolittle makes her society debut. The production by the student-run Asian American Theater Project (co-founded by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, ’79) reimagines the Broadway classic to explore issues of class and race within Asian immigrant communities living in Edwardian London.

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