Will Kelli O'Hara Reprise Eliza?

Despite my best efforts to appear subversive and shifty, I was in fact impaneled on a jury today. I can't talk about the case. (And don't particularly care to: Yawn City.)

But I had to pass on some inchoate yet intriguing news about the delightful Kelli O'Hara. She recently told Parade magazine (so it MUST be true), that she'd love to play Eliza Doolittle in a Broadway revival of My Fair Lady. In fact she even said that she'd gladly postpone having a family for the possibility.

O'Hara played the role last year with the New York Philharmonic, opposite Kelsey Grammer as Henry Higgins. I wasn't able to see it (Anyone?), but have no trouble imagining O'Hara in the part, and doing a bang-up job of it. O'Hara is currently playing to packed houses in South Pacific, and although I've made my views about the show plain, I remain an ardent fan of O'Hara and her numerous charms.

O'Hara's wish to reprise Eliza on Broadway is hardly a pipe dream, since there appears to be some definite talk about bringing the show back, despite the fact that the Lerner and Loewe classic played the Rialto as recently as 1994 with Melissa Errico and Richard Chamberlain.

Quoth O’Hara: "My husband and I have talked about this. As much as we want to have children, if I were offered My Fair Lady, then he agreed that I should do it. Any other show, we’d choose to have a kid.”

Wow. I say we give the gal a shot. Are ya with me?