Photo Flash: First Look at Martin Kildare, Katharine McDonough and More in MTW's MY FAIR LADY

Musical Theatre West (MTW) opens its 2015-2016 season with Lerner and Loewe's Tony Award-winning musical My Fair Lady, October 23 - November 8, 2015, at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Tickets are now on sale, as well as season subscription packages (to include West Side Story, Sister Act, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) for subscription savings. For tickets, go to www.musical.org or call (562) 856-1999, ext. 4. Tickets start at $20. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!

Broadway veteran Martin Kildare stars as Professor Henry Higgins. On Broadway, Kildare co-starred as the ominous Scar in Disney's The Lion King as well as the critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, and The Herbal Bed. His Off-Broadway credits include Pride's Crossing, Honor and the River, Candida, and Labor Day. Local audiences enjoyed Kildare's turn as Bill Austin in the national tour of Mamma Mia! and last season's Mary Poppins and Good People for MRE/LaMirada. Television audiences will recognize Kildare for his numerous appearances on Law and Order, Desperate Housewives, Big Love, and CSI: New York. Raised in Seal Beach, he is a graduate of Stanford University and the American Conservatory Theatre, and has studied acting with Mark Rylance at Shakespeare's Globe in London.

As Eliza Doolittle, Katharine McDonough returns to MTW following her role as Dinah in last season's production of South Pacific. Other recent credits include Natalie in All Shook Up (Moonlight Stage), Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (MRE/LaMirada), Eponine in LES MISERABLES (Anchorage Concert Association), Sara Crewe in Andrew Lippa's A Little Princess (a Southern California Premiere), Olive in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Covina CPA), and Julia in The Wedding Singer (Papermill Theatre).

Rounding out the cast is Richard Gould (Colonel Pickering), Matthew Henderson (Alfred P. Doolittle), Eric Michael Parker (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Mary Gordon Murray (Mrs. Higgins), and

Debra Cardona (Mrs. Pearce). Daniel Pelzig serves as director/choreographer, with musical direction under the helm of Julie Lamoureux. MTW's production is made possible thanks to the support of Honorary Producers Mari Hopper and the Ken Reiner Memorial Fund; Associate Producers the Ackerman Family/Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation, Dr. David Federick, and Joan Wells; Youth Performance Underwriters Larry and Shari Nemirow, and Leo and Judith Vanderlans. Presented through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library.

Tickets are available at the Musical Theatre West Ticket Office, by calling

(562) 856-1999, ext. 4, or online at www.musical.org.

Photo Credit: Caught in the Moment Photography