MTC Productions’ latest, Me and My Girl, is all about “love, laughter and happily ever after.” Me and My Girl plays at the Lancaster Opera House (LOH), located at 21 Central Ave., at 7:30 p.m. May 6, 7 and 8, and 2:30 p.m. May 8 and 9.
The musical focuses on a cockney lad, named Bill, from Lambeth who will inherit the title of Earl if and when the executers deem him “fit and proper.” Bill comes to Hareford after the 13th Earl dies, his father, who secretly married a woman from the other side of the tracks, producing his one and only heir.

Bill brings along his girlfriend, Sally, to Hareford. Both of them are not refined, are deemed rude, ignorant and raucous and do not fit in. Me and My Girl is the story of how Bill and Sally come to fit in with the nobles oblique in a plot resembling “My Fair Lady”.

The entire cast was fabulous in their designated roles, including David Nuijens as Herbert Parchester, Esq., Deborah Jasinski as Maria, Duchess of Dene, and Charles Hethersett, the butler, played by Alfonzo Tyson.

The two who really stole the show included Corey Neil, who played Bill, and Ashlin Liszka, who played Sally.

Neil owned his part. Neil was goofy, comedic and had a dry sense of humor. His antics and acrobatics fully completed the part of Bill. Neil made the character believable, humble and hilarious. The audience could easily tell why Sally was in love with him.

Liszka’s solo, “Once You Lose Your Heart,” was touching and her singing was outstanding.
Liszka and Neil had great chemistry onstage and a noteworthy song they shared, “Me and My Girl,” was fabulous with the cherry on the performance being the tap dance they shared.

Another great part was “An English Gentleman,” in which Hethersett and his staff sing while mechanically going about their mundane and daily tasks. “The Lambeth Walk,” in which Bill and Sally’s friends come to the Hareford party, uninvited, and convince the dignitaries to let loose and have some fun, is a notable scene as well, with spoons being used as instruments.
The pit band and pianist that ushered in the start of the musical was a great accompaniment to the total performance.

Me and My Girl shows the story of changing who you had grown up to be, to be someone whom you should have been and were meant to be. Bill shows all that even though he did not start out on the right side of the tracks, he honored his heritage and still managed to keep a piece of who he was.
Take a Lambeth walk over to the Lancaster Opera House to see MTC Productions’ play of Me and My Girl.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $13 for seniors and students and $13 for children. Tickets are available an hour before show time, at www.lancopera.org, or by calling LOH at 683-1776.

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