MY FAIR LADY
A major West End revival of Lerner and Loewe’s beloved musical My Fair Lady is coming to the London Coliseum for the first time in 21 years. The Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning production will head to the London Coliseum in Summer 2022 for a limited 16-week engagement which runs from 7th May-27th August 2022.. Directed by Bartlett Sher, this production will feature the English National Opera orchestra playing Frederick Loewe’s enchanting score with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
First casting news is that Amara Okereke ( Cosette in Les Miserables and Polly in The Boy Friend) is playing Eliza Doolittle with Harry Haddon-Paton (Downton Abbey) reprising his Broadway performance of Henry Higgins with Sharif Afifi as love struck Freddy Eynsford-Hill with Maureen Beattie as housekeeper Mrs Pearce, Stephen K Amos as Alfred P Doolittle and Malcolm Sinclair as Colonel Pickering.
The score, which includes standards iincludin "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Get Me to the Church on Time," and "On the Street Where You Live", will be performed by the English National Opera orchestra.
The full company is completed with Dammi Aregbeshola, Bernadette Bangura, Joseph Claus, Jordan Crouch, Jamie Cruttenden, Francessca Daniella-Baker, Barry Drummond, Bethany Huckle, Heather Jackson, Emma Johnson, Charlotte Kennedy, Sinead Kenny, Jenny Legg, Tom Liggins, Rebekah Lowings, Carl Patrick, Tom Ping, Dominique Planter, Joseph Poulton, John Stacey, Joshua Steel, Oliver Tester, Adam Vaughan, Annie Wensak and Paul Westwood.
My Fair Lady is based on the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Lerner and Loewe's musical quickly became one of the greatest successes of Broadway and the West End, leading to the hugely popular film adaptation in 1964. The original New York and London productions starred Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins; Harrison reprised his role in the 1964 film opposite Audrey Hepburn as Eliza.
The musical boasts a classic score featuring hit numbers 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’.
My Fair Lady tells the story of Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, into his idea of a “proper lady” within six months so she may take her place in high society. But who is really being transformed?
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.
Monday-Saturday 7:00 pm. Matinees on Thursday & Saturday at 2:00 pm Running time TBA
THIS SHOW ENDED ITS RUN ON 27TH AUGUST 2020
Breaking News; Following its season at London Coliseum this summer, My Fair Lady is to go on a short UK and Ireland tour playing Bradford, Dublin, Cardiff and Southampton from September 2022 to January 2023 with more venues and casting to be announced
HOW TO GET TO THE LONDON COLISEUM
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Tube :Charing Cross - 0.2 miles Northern Line Leicester Square - 0.2 miles Northern & Piccadilly Lines Covent Garden - 0.3 miles British Rail: Charing Cross - 0.2 miles / Waterloo - 0.8 miles |
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DISABLED ACCESS TO THE LONDON COLISEUM
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Enhanced sound system via headphones from information desk in the foyer. |
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One guide dog per performance |
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Two wheelchair spaces in the stalls, two wheelchair spaces in the dress circle and four wheelchair space in the stalls boxes Transfer seats for those who are able to transfer out of their wheelchairs, comprising four in the dress circle and six in the balcony |
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Adapted unisex toilets on four out of five levels of the London Coliseum: basement, stalls, dress circle and balcony |