THE Witney-based Class Act Musical Company is set to hit the high notes when the curtain goes up on their spring production of My Fair Lady at 7.30pm tonight at the Corn Exchange, Witney.

This is the company's tenth production, and promises to be a real hit.

The 40-strong cast of children, young people and adults, who have been rehearsing for more than six months, are now all set to breathe life into this popular musical, which sees a common flower girl blossom into a lady.

The delightful songs, that weave their way through this musical, begin when Eliza Doolittle, the little Cockney gutter sparrow, meets Professor Henry Higgins, the country's leading professor of phonetics, in Covent Garden.

On hearing her voice, Professor Higgins asks in his song Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?

On meeting Colonel Pickering, also a linguist, he accepts a wager and boasts he can turn Eliza into a lady in six months. At the thought of this, Eliza begins dreaming of her own room, and sings Wouldn't it Be Loverly?

Alfred Doolittle's With a Little Bit of Luck, outlines the optimistic, if somewhat unorthodox, philosophy of Eliza Doolittle's father. The Rain in Spain, so triumphantly sung when Eliza finally managed to pronounce her vowels properly, gives us the joy experienced by Eliza, Professor Higgins, and Colonel Pickering, as her lessons progress.

Eliza expresses her own exaltation with I Could Have Danced All Night, a delightful song, so full of joy.

Other songs include: Get Me to the Church on Time, On the Street Where You Live, and finally, when Professor Higgins realises that he will have a difficult time getting on without Eliza now she has become a lady and left his home, he sings the most moving song of all - I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face.

The curtain at the Corn Exchange, Witney, goes up on Class Act's production of My Fair Lady at 7.30pm on Wednesday. The show continues until Saturday. For tickets, phone the Witney visitors' information centre, on 01993 775602.