d'Amboise & Mann Team Up for MY FAIR LADY at Nutmeg Summer Series

According to the New Haven Courant, two-time Tony Award-nominee Terrence Mann will star as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical "My Fair Lady" at the Nutmeg Summer Series at the Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre on the UConn campus in Storrs.

The production will run July 7 to 17.

"My Fair Lady" is set to be choreographed by Charlotte d'Amboise, who received a Tony nomination for the revival of "A Chorus Line." She is married to Mann.

Details of the other two shows in the series will be released soon.

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Mann's Broadway credits include Cats, Les Miserables (Tony Award nomination), Beauty and the Beast (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Getting Away With Murder, A Christmas Carol, Rags, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, andBarnum. Off-Broadway and regional credits include: Assassins (Playwrights Horizon), 1776 and Tonight at 8:30 (Williamson Theatre Festival), Barnum in Barnum (national tour). Film and television credits include: Chorus Line, Big Top Pee Wee, Critters, Solar Babies, "One Life To Live," "As The World Turns" (Emmy nomination), "Another World," "All My Children," "Law & Order," Philby, Shangri-la Plaza, True Women and Bump in the Night. Regional directing credits include: 1776, The Sound of Music, Hello Dolly, Gypsy, Funny Girl, Show Boat, Camelot, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Dreamgirls and Pirates of Penzance. Artistic Director of the North Carolina Theatre for ten years. Mann's musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet played at the Goodspeed Opera House and at the Ordway Theatre.

Ms. d'Amboise holds the record for playing Roxie Hart more than any other actress in the history of the revival - more than 2,000 performances and counting. For her portrayal of Roxie in the show's first national tour, she earned the L.A. Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Ovation and Bay Area Theatre Circle Awards. Her other NY credits include Sweet Charity (Charity; Fred Astaire Award), Can-Can (Encores!), Contact, Damn Yankees (Lola; Fred Astaire Award), Jerome Robbins' Broadway (Tony nomination), Company, Carrie, Song and Dance, and Cats. Film: The Preacher's Wife, The In Crowd.

 

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski