Photo Coverage: 'Pygmalion' Opening Night Arrivals
By: Walter McBride Oct. 19, 2007
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An impressive collection of Broadway and screen stars arrived for the officially opening of the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Pygmalion on Thursday, October 18 at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street). This new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is directed by David Grindley and stars Claire Danes in her Broadway debut as "Eliza Doolittle" with Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as "Henry Higgins", Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as "Colonel Pickering" and Jay O. Sanders as "Alfred Doolittle." This is a limited engagement through Sunday, December 16.
"George Bernard Shaw's famous play, Pygmalion, inspired the legendary and award winning musical My Fair Lady. Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world. When Professor Henry Higgins (Mays) comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle (Danes), Higgins makes a bet that he can take Eliza from the gutters of London and pass her off as a society lady, by simply teaching her the right dialect in which to speak. Higgins soon discovers that this task involves much more than knowledge; it involves patience and most importantly, affairs of the heart," describe press notes
Tickets are currently on-sale and available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212) 719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the American Airlines Box Office (227 West 42nd Street). Ticket prices range from $51.25 - $96.25.MORE PHOTOS: Pygmalion Opening Night Curtain Call and After Party
Photos by Walter McBride / Retna Ltd.
Pygmalion opened at the American Airlines Theatre on Thursday, October 18, 2007
Pygmalion stars Claire Danes and Jefferson Mays
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