Nunn's My Fair Lady Set for Bway Run Next Season?

The New York Post's Michael Riedel reports that Trevor Nunn's hit 2001 West End production of My Fair Lady is finally headed to Broadway.

"The New York Philharmonic's concert version of My Fair Lady at Lincoln Center last week received such glowing notices that people are wondering whether it will move to Broadway at some point. Sadly, no. British producer Cameron Mackintosh (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon) has the rights to the great musical, and he's planning to bring a production that was directed by Trevor Nunn in London a few years ago to New York next season," writes the theatre columnist.  Kelli O'Hara and Kelsey Grammer had starred in the Philharmonic concert.

Nunn's Olivier Award-winning West End revival of My Fair Lady starred Martine McCutcheon as Eliza Doolittle and Jonathan Pryce as Henry Higgins.  No casting has been announced for the Broadway production.

My Fair Lady concerns the attemps of linguistics professor Higgins to win his bet that he can turn common flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a full-fledged lady who can properly speak the King's (Edward's, in this case) English. Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the show 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 (who repeated their triumph in London). A 1964 film version directed by George Cukor starrEd Harrison and Audrey Hepburn.

Nunn has won Tony Awards for directing Les Miserables, Cats and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Photo of Trevor Nunn by Linda Lenzi