'Pygmalion' Concludes Roundabout Run Dec.16

Roundabout Theatre Company's limited engagement of Pygmalion will play its final performance on Sunday, December 16 at 2PM. This revival of George Bernard Shaw's classic Pygmalion stars Claire Danes in her Broadway debut as "Eliza Doolittle," Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays as "Henry Higgins," Tony Award winner Boyd Gaines as "Colonel Pickering" and Jay O. Sanders as "Alfred Doolittle," directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd St).

Pygmalion will have played 31 preview performances and 69 regular performances. Previews began on Friday, September 21, 2007 and opened officially on Thursday, October 18, 2007.

The cast also includes Helen Carey (Mrs. Higgins), Brenda Wehle (Mrs. Pearce), Kerry Bishé (Clara Eynsford Hill), Kieran Campion (Freddy Eynsford Hill), Sandra Shipley (Mrs. Eynsford Hill), Tony Carlin (Bystander), Jonathan Fielding (Bystander), Robin Moseley (Bystander), Doug Stender (Bystander), Karen Walsh (Parlour Maid), Jennifer Armour (Bystander), Brad Heikes (Bystander), Curtis Shumaker (Bystander).

The design team includes Jonathan Fensom (sets & costumes), Jason Taylor (lights), Gregory Clarke (sound), Majella Hurley (dialect coach) and Richard Orton (Hair and Wig Designer).

"George Bernard Shaw's famous play, Pygmalion, inspired the legendary and award winning musical My Fair Lady, written and composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. 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," explain press notes.

Tickets are 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 plays Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8PM with a Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinee at 2PM. www.roundabouttheatre.org