Can't Miss It: Tuesday

MUSICAL: Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins! Lerner & Loewe's proto-Pretty Woman fantasia, My Fair Lady, opens at the Paramount, starring British theatre actors Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O'Hare as Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The production unites the original U.K. artistic team with Trevor Nunn (director), Matthew Bourne (choreography and musical staging), and Anthony Ward (production design).

7:30 p.m. // Paramount Theatre, 911 Pine Street // Tickets: $25-$72

MUSIC: Peter Morén, the lead singer of Swedish indie mega-group Peter Bjorn and John, has his first solo album out, The Last Tycoon. It's singer-songwriter guitar stuff, but also incorporates strings, synthesizers, vibraphones, percussion, a musical saw, and a drum machine or two. Opening are the Simon-and-Garfunkely Swede Tobias Froberg and indie-folk artist Dawn Landes, a Kentucky native who has had her songs appear on Gossip Girl and Californication, as well as in a commercial for Axe body spray.

8 p.m. // the Triple Door, 216 Union Street // Tickets: $15

TRAVEL WRITING: Seattle Arts and Lectures has brought Pico Iyer to town to talk about his book, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Big hitter, the Lama. But we're guessing Iyer has more than golf on his mind. “The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense,” Iyer says, “but because it confronts you with emotional and moral challenges that you would never have to confront at home.”

HEALING GARDENS: For the UW's Walker Ames lecture series, UC-Berkeley's Clare Cooper Marcus gives a talk on how healthcare design is responding to the restorative effects of exposure to nature. She'll also talk about how housing site planning can encourage children to play outside and help to address our epidemic of fat kids and frazzled moms. She'll finish by asking if healing gardens are just a fad, and if so, is it worth regulating the term's use with regards to actual tested criteria?

6:30 p.m. // UW Kane Hall, Room 120 // FREE

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