Wednesday, November 10, 2004
The Shaw Festival
I spent this past weekend in Buffalo (where I grew up). And, no ... it did NOT snow while I was there. It snowed the week before ... and it snowed the day after. But the weather was absolutely lovely while I was in town. So there. :-)
Anyway ... while I was in Buffalo, a friend and I drove into Ontario (a very short drive from Buffalo). (And, for those of you who confuse upstate and/or Western New York with Canada, they are NOT one and the same!!) Anyway ... we drove into Southern Ontario, up and along the Niagara River (way past the Falls) toward Toronto to a small town on Lake Ontario called "Niagara-on-the-Lake". Yes, that's the name of the town. Niagara-on-the-Lake. It's a gorgeous, quaint little town that has lots of wonderful shops, beautiful homes, hotels, bed&breakfasts, and ....
.... The Shaw Festival. The Shaw Festival is not really a "festival", but several theaters in the town that all run plays from the time of George Bernard Shaw to the present. Many of the plays that they do are George Bernard Shaw's. On Saturday evening, we saw Pygmalion ... the Shaw play upon which the movie "My Fair Lady" is based.
I was surprised at how similar the play was to the movie. I was expecting the original to be radically different from the screen play. They were so much alike that I had to keep reminding myself why Eliza didn't look like Audrey Hepburn. It was a wonderful play!!!
So ... the next time you're in Southern Ontario (or in Buffalo or Western New York for that matter), you'll need to check out Niagara-on-the-Lake and The Shaw Festival.
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