Nunn's My Fair Lady is Broadway-Bound After UK Tour

By: BWW News Desk Jun. 21, 2005

Trevor Nunn's acclaimed mounting of My Fair Lady will come to Broadway in a 50th anniversary production in 2006 after making the rounds of the UK in a tour.

The tour, which features different casting than the West End production, will first hit Manchester's Palace Theatre from Oct. 5th to Nov. 5th, 2005 (with previews beginning on Sept. 28th), before moving to Birmingham and 10 other UK cities

Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, My Fair Lady was a critical and popular success when it opened at the National's Lyttelton Theatre in March of 2001 (it would later transfer to the Drury Lane). The show garnered Olivier Awards for Outstanding Musical Production, with star Martine McCutcheon picking up Best Actress in a Musical, and Matthew Bourne doing the same wtih Best Choreographer. The musical classic about a Cockney flower seller who becomes a lady under the tutelage of a woman-scorning professor originally opened in the West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1958, with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison reprising their lauded Broadway turns.

While McCutcheon and Jonathan Pryce starred as Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins in the London revival, casting for the tour is not yet complete. Russ Abbott ("The Russ Abbott Show," Oliver!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) will once again play Alfred P. Doolittle, Honor Blackman (Goldfinger, "The Avengers") has been cast as Mrs. Higgins, and Christopher Cazenove (The Winslow Boy, An Ideal Husband, Brief Encounter) will portray Higgins, but producers are still on the look-out for an Eliza.

My Fair Lady is designed by Anthony Ward; Mackintosh will once again produce the show, as he also did for a 1979 production directed by Lerner, who wrote the lyrics to Frederick Loewe's music, and adapted the book from Shaw's Pygmalion.

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