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Hot Tickets: A 'loverly' encore before moving on
By JOHN FLEMING
Published November 3, 2005
Dick Poole is bowing out of Tampa Bay area community theater with a classic, My Fair Lady. Poole has directed scores of productions over the past 15 years at Francis Wilson Playhouse, Suncoast Richey Theatre, St. Petersburg Little Theatre, Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center and others. In October, he was given the Lloyd Lewis Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Lary Awards for community theater.
Now Poole, 82, is planning to move to California, but not before collaborating one more time with music director Mary Ann Boos and choreographer Jane Geddings on the Lerner and Loewe musical, the first show they did together 13 years ago. Their cast includes Kathleen Edwards (Eliza Doolittle) and Rand Smith (Henry Higgins). Above, Poole and Geddings in costume.
My Fair Lady opens Friday and runs through Nov. 20 at Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center. 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $14, $16. (727) 942-5605.
- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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