Roundabout Theatre Company's Pygmalion
opens at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street) on Thursday,
October 18. 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.
Pygmalion will play Tuesday through
Saturday evenings at 8PM with a Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinee at
2PM. For more information visit
www.roundabouttheatre.org
Photos by Joan Marcus
Jefferson Mays and Claire Danes
Claire Danes and
Jefferson Mays
