The most beloved musical of all time, Lerner & Loewe's MY FAIR LADY returns to Broadway in a lavish new production from Lincoln Center Theater, the theater that brought you the Tony-winning revivals of South Pacific and The King and I.
Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher, the stellar cast - led by Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Norbert Leo Butz, Diana Rigg, Allan Corduner, Jordan Donica, Linda Mugleston and Manu Narayan - 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?
The classic score features "I Could Have Danced All Night," "The Rain in Spain," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" and "On the Street Where You Live." The original 1956 production won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, and was hailed by The New York Times as "one of the best musicals of the century."
This visual splendor would amount to nothing more than a momentary 'Wow!' if Sher hadn't imbued the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe classic with performances that vividly conjure up George Bernard Shaw's original characters. Yes, the playwright never wanted his 'Pygmalion' turned into a musical or a romance, but Sher's take on 'My Fair Lady' brings the show closer to what the playwright had in mind.
Of all the great Broadway musicals of the postwar era, 'My Fair Lady' is the only one that takes a major work of literature, George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion,' and turns it into an equally distinguished musical that is true to the spirit and letter of its source material.
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