Simon Ward, Peter Eyre, et al. Complete Cast of West End's PYGMALION

Rounding off the cast  of the upcoming West End revival of PYGMALION are Simon Ward, Peter Eyre, and Peter Sandys Clarke who will star as Alfred P. Doolitte, Colonel Pickering, and Freddy Eynsford Hill respectively. Marty Cruickshank and Roberta Taylor will also join previously announced Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon, and Diana Rigg in the production. 

The show will be directed by director Philip Prose, who also took part in the Chichester production. PYGMALION will play the Garrick Theatre, May 12 through September 3.

Pygmalion is by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's gArden Party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.

In 1956 it was adapted into Broadway musical My Fair Lady, by Lerner and Loewe. The original production starred Rex Harrison as Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza

 

 

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