The production is currently touring the UK, following its successful run at the London Coliseum.
Further venues have been added to to the current UK tour of Bartlett Sher’s production of My Fair Lady, which had a successful run at the London Coliseum earlier this year.
Lerner & Loewe’s musical will visit Sunderland Empire (1st – 11th February), Bristol Hippodrome (14th – 25th February), Birmingham Hippodrome (8th – 19th March) and finally Manchester Palace (22nd March – 1st April). The show is currently at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin (6 – 30 October), before going on to visit Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (8 – 26 November), Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh (14 December – 7 January), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (12 – 29 January).
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 book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, the musical includes many memorable songs such as “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.”
The cast for this production includes: Michael D. Xavier as Henry Higgins, Charlotte Kennedy as Eliza Doolittle, Adam Woodyatt as Alfred P. Doolittle, Heather Jackson as Mrs Higgins, John Middleton as Colonel Pickering and Tom Liggins as Freddy Eynsford-Hill. They are joined by Dammi Aregbeshola, Bernadette Bangura, Joseph Claus, Jordan Crouch, Jamie Cruttenden, Francessca Daniella-Baker, Barry Drummond, Bethany Huckle, Emma Johnson, Sinead Kenny, Jenny Legg, Rebekah Lowings, Carl Patrick, Tom Ping, Dominique Planter, Joseph Poulton, John Stacey, Joshua Steel, Oliver Tester, Adam Vaughan, Annie Wensak and Paul Westwood as the ensemble.
Meanwhile, the production’s creative team includes: 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.
My Fair Lady originally 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. This revival premiered in the spring of 2018 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, and was the winner of the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, five 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.
For more information and to book tickets visit: https://myfairladymusical.co.uk/