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FIRST LOOK: My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
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News 17 May 2022 · 2 min read · 517 words

FIRST LOOK: My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum

We hope you enjoy these first-look production images from Marc Brenner of Lincoln Center Theater's production of My Fair Lady playing at the London Coliseum

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We hope you enjoy these first-look production images from Marc Brenner of Lincoln Center Theater's production of My Fair Lady playing at the London Coliseum for a limited season.

Harry Hadden Paton (Prof. Higgins), Amara Okereke (Eliza) and Malcolm Sinclair (Colonel Pickering) The Lincoln Center Theater's production of Lerner and Loewe's classic musical My Fair Lady has arrived at the London Coliseum for a strictly limited season. Book My Fair Lady tickets.

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. The London production will feature 36 musicians from the English National Opera’s award-winning Orchestra playing Frederick Loewe’s ravishing score making it the largest orchestra in the West End.

Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle and the company.

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?

Malcolm Sinclair as Colonel Pickering 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.”

Dame Vanessa Redgrave (Mrs Higgins) and Harry Hadden Paton (Henry Higgins). The company features Harry Hadden-Paton as Henry Higgins, Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle, Stephen K Amos as Alfred P Doolittle, Dame Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs Higgins, Malcolm Sinclair as Colonel Pickering, Maureen Beattie as Mrs Pearce, and Sharif Afifi as Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Bartlett Sher’s glorious multi-award-winning production of Lerner & Loewe’s much loved My Fair Lady which will transfer to the London Coliseum for a limited summer engagement in what will be the first major West End revival of the show for 21 years. The season comes as part of the ongoing celebrated tradition of summer musicals at the London Coliseum. The perfect way to celebrate London’s theatre scene as it blossoms once more after the pandemic.

Stephen K Amos (Alfred P Doolittle) and the company

James L. Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Crossroads Live, 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, musical direction by Gareth Valentine, musical supervision by Ted Sperling, choreography by Christopher Gattelli, directed by Bartlett Sher.

My Fair Lady plays at the London Coliseum until 27 August 2022.

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The company of My Fair Lady

The company of My Fair Lady

Douglas Mayo
Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo has had a life long love affair with musical theatre. He has authored several books on publicity and marketing for amateur theatre groups. He is in the process of developing a musical based on his original story concept.

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