New York’s Lincoln Center Theater’s multi-award-winning production of My Fair Lady will transfer to the London Coliseum for a limited summer season in May next year.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, the critic and crowd-pleasing production will become the first major West End revival of Lerner and Loewe’s show in 21 years when performances begin on 7 May 2022 ahead of an opening night on 18 May 2022. The summer season will run until 27 August 2022.
Commenting on his My Fair Lady’s London debut, Sher said: “Getting a chance to revisit Shaw’s extraordinary story of class and privilege in a new age, and especially for London audiences, is a rare and special event. And I am also thrilled to be back at the ENO and the Coliseum, a perfect space for this epic musical.”
Presented by James L. Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Playful Productions and the English National Opera, the Lincoln Center Theatre production features sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Marc Salzberg, original musical arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett and Phil Lang and dance arrangements by Trude Rittman.
Full casting for the London Coliseum season will be announced at a later date.
The imminent arrival of Sher’s latest Lincoln Center production follows the successful 2018 London run of his award-winning revival of The King and I, My Fair Lady boasts the same creative team as The King and I and the previous Lincoln Center production, the multi-award-winning 2008 revival of another classic musical, South Pacific.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s glorious musical re-imagining of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, was first seen on Broadway in 1956. The original production which starred Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison won six Tony Awards including Best Musical and remains in the top 30 longest-running Broadway musicals of all time. Andrews and Harrison also starred in the musical’s West End premiere run at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1958.
The enduringly popular 1964 film adaptation starring Harrison reprising his Tony Award-winning performance as Henry Higgins opposite Audrey Hepburn’s Eliza Doolittle won eight Academy Awards including the Oscar for Best Picture.
Cameron Mackintosh and Trevor Nunn’s 2001 revival at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane won three Olivier Awards and went on to tour the UK and Ireland in 2005.
Angela Thomas
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