Patterson and Lane to Lead MY FAIR LADY at Larry Keeton Theatre

Erica Patterson will take on the iconic role of Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, running February 16-March 4 at The Larry Keeton Theatre in Donelson. Cavender Lane will play the supercilious Henry Higgins, with Chris Cavin as Colonel Pickering and Elliott Robinson as Alfred P. Doolittle in the revival, directed by veteran Nashville director (and current senior contributing editor to BroadwayWorld.com/Nashville) Jeffrey Ellis.

2016 First Night Star Award winner Jamie London (artistic director for the Senior Center for the Arts and The Larry Keeton Theatre) and 2015 First Night Honoree Larry Keeton are producers, with 2014 First Night Honoree (and the first winner of a First Night Award for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Musical) Ginger Newman as musical director. The show is choreographed by Lauri Gregoire, and Suzanne Spooner-Faulk is production stage manager. Tanis Westbrook is costume coordinator.

Ashley Wolfe will play Eliza Doolittle for three performances February 19, 23 and 26. Earlier in 2016, she stopped the show as Fraulein Kost in Ellis and London's production of Cabaret at The Keeton.

Patterson, who won both critical and audience acclaim as Sarah Brown in Circle Players' Ragtime and as Mary Magdalene in their recent staging of Jesus Christ Superstar, is a native of Memphis and a graduate of Tennessee State University in Nashville. Lane was previously seen as Jud Frye in Springhouse Theatre's Oklahoma! last summer after earning stellar notices as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 at Murfreesboro's Center for the Arts.

Cavin recently completed a run as Frank Butler in The Larry Keeton Theatre's Annie Get Your Gun, after making his debut at the venue in Cabaret, co-directed by London and Ellis last summer. Robinson, who has performed on various Nashville stages over the past several years, is currently starring as Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Lakewood Theatre in Old Hickory.

J. RoBert Lindsey, seen last summer as Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret, will play Freddy Eynsford-Hill, with longtime Nashville actress Judy Jackson (who was part of Ellis' cast for his revival of Picnic in 2015) in the role of Mrs. Eynsford-Hill. Nashville theater stalwart Janet Coscarelli is cast as Mrs. Higgins. Noted singer/actress Christine Poythress, who has appeared in several area productions in previous seasons, will take on the role of Higgins' long-suffering housekeeper Mrs. Pearce.

In the roles of Jamie and Harry, Alfred P. Doolittle's cohorts and drinking pals, are Austin Jeffrey Smith (Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun, Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Benny Jones (now concluding a run in Harry Connick Jr.'s The Happy Elf at the Roxy Regional Theatre in Clarksville). Christian Carter is cast as Zoltan Karpathy.

Among the production's ensemble members are: Brandon Hoyt, Cade Smith, Kelsey Schoff, Natalie Herb, Laura Simmons, Brittany Easley, Cary Street, John Mark Redding, Nathaniel James Hulme, Katie Earl, Maggie Jackson, Sara Kistner, Ingrid Rekedal, Julia Marie Nettles, Melissa Vinson, Tiffany Day, Gracie McGraw and Trevor Golter.

For further details and reservations, go to www.thelarrykeetontheatre.org.

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