Directed and choreographed with elegance and brisk energy by Marc Robin, and showcasing an ensemble packed with talent, "My Fair Lady" is this season's big "audience-pleaser" production.

From Janet Swensen's beautiful costumes to R. Eric Stone's stylistic sets, this "Lady" is visually stunning as well.

Kurt Ziskie, who last year turned Billie Dawn into a newly educated woman in "Born Yesterday," is doing the same thing for London guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle. He's wonderfully brusque as professor Henry Higgins.

Melinda Pfundstein is perfectly cast as Eliza, who makes the magical metamorphosis from Cockney flower girl to elegant "princess."

Anne Newhall, who played Billie Dawn last season, delivers a great performance as Mrs. Pearce, who runs the Higgins household like a combination of Beatrice Lilly and Thelma Ritter.

Other great performances come from Peter Sham as Eliza's philandering father, Alfred P. Doolittle; Richard Kinter as Colonel Pickering, the linguist who joins Higgins for Eliza's makeover; Anne Cullimore Decker, as Mrs. Higgins, Henry's long-suffering mother; and Jason Heil as love-smitten Freddy Eynsford-Hill.

Director Robin's knack for choreography really shines in the energetic Cockney men's ensemble dances and the refined restraint of the Ascot races. The "Cockney Quartet" — Aaron Galligan-Stierle, Phil Hubbard, Kevin Kiler and Justin Leath — literally stops the show.

I do have one quibble. The orchestra had a harsh, almost brittle sound, not the lush backdrop "My Fair Lady" needs.

That aside, it's notable that Shakespeare's works aren't the only classics on display this summer in Cedar City, as Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's masterful reworking of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" proves that it still ranks right up there with the best of them.

• MORNING'S AT SEVEN (running time: two hours, 45 minutes, with two intermissions).

This poignant, slice-of-life drama was first produced on Broadway nearly 65 years ago. It deals with two days in the lives of four sisters in 1922, long before such phrases as "dysfunctional" or "anxiety attack" became everyday terms.

The Gibbs sisters, somewhere in their mid-60s to mid-70s, live in the same small community. Three of them are married; one is "an old maid."

The Swansons (Cora and Thor) live next door to the Boltons (Ida and Carl and their middle-aged, bachelor son, Homer). Aaronetta "Arry" Gibbs, the spinster, lives with the Swansons. The fourth sister, Esther (Esty), lives several blocks away with her standoffish, cantankerous husband, David Crampton, who considers everyone else morons.