Tony Award-nominee Marla Schaffel and John Vickery will headline a nine-city tour of My Fair Lady that will launch at Atlanta's Fox Theatre (660 Peachtree Street).
The tour, which will star Schaffel as Eliza Doolittle and Vickery as Professor Henry Higgins, will play venues in Vienna, VA, Providence, RI, Hartford, CT, Dayton, OH, Buffalo, NY,
Rochester, NY, Memphis, TN, Fort Meyers, FL and Clearwater, FL. Directed by Drew Scott Harris, My Fair Lady's cast will also include James Valentine as Colonel Pickering,
Rob Donohoe as Alfred P. Doolittle, Jim Weitzer as Freddy
Eynsford-Hill, Melinda Tanner as Mrs. Higgins and Ellen Horst as Mrs.
Pearce. Lisa Guignard will choreograph the Lerner and Loewe classic, which concerns the attemps of linguistics professor Higgins to win his bet that he can turn common flower girl Eliza into a full-fledged lady who can properly speak the King's (Edward's, in this case) English. Tom Griffin will be the show's musical director, while the design team will include Peter
Fitzgerald (sound), Benjamin Pearcy (lighting), Kenneth Foy (sets) and Costume
World.
Schaffel received a 2001 Best Actress Tony Award nomination for portraying the title governess of Jane Eyre; her other Broadway credits include Titanic and Les Miserables. Vickery originated the role of the villainous Scar in The Lion King and also appeared in The Sisters Rosenweig, The Real Thing, Ned & Jack and Macbeth.My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15th, 1956; it would run for 2,717 performances and win 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. With music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady originally starred Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. A 1964 film version directed by George Cukor starrEd Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. A 50th anniversary production based on the smash 2001 Trevor Nunn production is Broadway-bound for 2006.For more information on My Fair Lady in Atlanta, call (404) 817-8700 or visit www.theaterofthestars.com.
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