James L. Nederlander, Jamie
Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Playful Productions and the English National Opera present
the Lincoln Center Theater production of
LERNER & LOEWE’S MY FAIR
LADY
Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER
Music by FREDERICK LOEWE Directed by BARTLETT SHER www.myfairladymusical.co.uk
@MyFairLadyUK
Today it has
been announced that New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed and multi awardwinning production of
Lerner & Loewe’s much loved MY FAIR LADY will embark on a UK and Ireland tour from September 2022 following
a limited engagement at the London Coliseum this summer. MY FAIR LADY will open at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
before going on to visit Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Southampton, with more
cities to be announced in due course. All tickets are on sale soon; full
information can be found in the listings below.
Directed by Bartlett
Sher, this sublime production, which premiered in the spring of 2018 at
Lincoln Center’s
Vivian Beaumont Theater, was the winner of the Tony Award
for Best Costume Design, 5 Outer Critics’ Circle
Awards including Best Musical
Revival, the Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical Revival, and the Drama
Desk Awards for Best Musical Revival and Costume Design.
Bartlett
Sher said: “Getting a chance to
revisit Shaw's extraordinary story of class and privilege in a new age is a
rare and special event and I am thrilled to be able to take this epic musical
on tour for audiences up and down the country to enjoy.”
My
Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower
seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to
transform her into his idea of a “proper lady”. But who is really being
transformed?
With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, MY FAIR LADY boasts a score including the classic songs I Could Have Danced All Night, Get Me to the Church on Time, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, On the Street Where You Live, The Rain in Spain and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.
Adapted from
George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion, Lerner & Loewe’s MY
FAIR LADY premiered on Broadway in March 1956, winning 6 Tony Awards
including Best Musical, and becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway
history at the time. Following this success, the production transferred to
London in 1958, where it played in the West End for five and a half years.
MY
FAIR LADY has seen many notable revivals and adaptations, including the
acclaimed 1964 film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, which won eight
Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Most recently on the London stage,
Cameron Mackintosh’s 2001 revival at Theatre Royal Drury Lane won three Olivier
Awards, and later toured across the UK and Ireland in 2005.
James L. Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter
Arnold, Playful Productions and the English National Opera present the Lincoln Center Theater production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe, sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Marc Salzberg, hair & wigs by Tom Watson, UK music supervision
by Gareth Valentine, UK musical
direction by Alex Parker, musical supervision by Ted Sperling, choreography by Christopher Gattelli, directed by
Bartlett Sher.
Casting
will be announced in due course.
“Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady has
returned to Broadway in a smashing new production from Bartlett Sher (The Sound
of Music, The King and I).” The Guardian
“Lavish revival
of Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 masterwork…”
The Washington Post
“Thrilling!
Glorious and better than it ever was! A marvellous and transformative revival.”
New York Times
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