The Cape Playhouse to Continue 89th Season with MY FAIR LADY

The oldest professional summer theater in America, The Cape Playhouse, presents its first-ever Playhouse production of Lerner and Loewe's triumph - My Fair Lady - July 28 through August 8. Tony Nominee Hunter Foster makes his Cape Playhouse directorial debut with the unforgettable story of Eliza Doolittle, the Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from Professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as a proper lady. Broadway's Ashley Brown and Jeff McCarthy star in what is generally hailed as a masterpiece of musical theatre. Set against the gorgeous scenery and costumes of Edwardian England, My Fair Lady is filled with some of the greatest songs in musical theater history: Wouldn't It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time and I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face. Lorin Latarro choreographs and Nick DeGregorio is the musical director.

The cast for My Fair Lady includes James Brennan (Crazy for You) as Alfred P. Doolittle, Ed Dixon (Anything Goes) as Colonel Pickering, and Constantine Germanacos (Evita) as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, with Catherine Flye, Ruth Gottschall, Fred Inkley, Parker Krug, William Mulligan, Danny Rothman, Frankie Paparone, Ryan Fitzgerald, Dorea Schmidt, Jessica Wagner, Jean McCormick, Danielle Diniz, Jennifer Elyse Geller, and Francesca Granell.

Ashley Brown (Eliza Doolittle) originated the title role in "Mary Poppins" on Broadway for which she received Outer Critics, Drama League and Drama Desk nominations for Best Actress, and starred in its national tour where she garnered a Garland award for "Best Performance in a Musical". Ms. Brown's other Broadway credits include Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and she has also starred in the national tour of Disney's "On The Record". Ms. Brown recently returned to critical acclaim starring in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of Oklahoma, where she also played Magnolia opposite Nathan Gunn in Francesca Zambello's Showboat. Ms. Brown has performed with virtually all of the top orchestras in North America including the Boston Pops, the New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at Disney Hall, the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall (four times), and symphonies in Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Seattle, Houston, Vancouver, and Jacksonville. She has also performed with the BBC orchestra opposite Josh Groban. Ms. Brown made her solo concert debut at The Kennedy Center as part of Barbara Cook's Spotlight Series, and has appeared in New York City at prestigious venues including Feinstein's at the Regency and Birdland. Other projects include star turns in Hello Dolly at The Goodspeed Opera House, Sound of Music at the St. Louis MUNY which garnered her a Kevin Kline award, Limelight at the La Jolla Playhouse, and her own PBS special called "Ashley Brown: Call Me Irresponsible" which received a PBS Telly Award. Other television credits include NBC's The Sound of Music. Ms. Brown is the voice of Disneyland celebrating its 60th anniversary singing the newly penned Richard Sherman songs, Kiss Goodnight. Ms. Brown's long awaited album of Broadway and American Songbook standards is available on Ghostlight/Sony. Ashley is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

Jeff McCarthy (Higgins) has enjoyed a theater, tv, film and recording career that has taken him to Asia, Europe, Africa. Leading roles in New York: Chicago, Urinetown, Sideshow, Southern Comfort, Zorba, Sympathetic Magic, Dream True, Smile, The Grinch Who..., Beauty and the Beast and several others. Regional: The Front Page, Kunstler, Sweeney Todd, The Price, Follies, All My Sons, The Underpants, hundreds of others. TV: The Good Wife, Schweitzer (title role), Star Trek(s), Designing Women, Law and Order(s), Cheers and many others. Film: Starting Out in the Evening, Robocop 2, Consent, Eve of Destruction, Cliffhanger and others.

Hunter Foster (Director) is the Artistic Associate at the Bucks County Playhouse where he has directed The Rocky Horror Show (2013 and 2014), Ain't Misbehavin', Summer of '42, National Pastime and Company. He has written the librettos for the Off-Broadway musicals, Summer of '42 (Outer Critic Nomination Best Musical) and Jasper in Deadland (which also appeared at the 5th Avenue theatre in Seattle). Other librettos include: The Circus in Winter (Goodspeed Opera House) Clyde and Bonne: A Folktale (Aurora Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia), and The Hollow (The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia). As an actor has appeared on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County, Hands on a Hardbody, Million Dollar Quartet, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors, Urinetown, Footloose, King David, Grease and Les Miserables.

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