Lincoln Center Theater has now announced a closing date for its lavish revival of Lerner & Loewe's classic musical My Fair Lady, which will play its final performance at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on July 7, 2019. Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher, the Broadway tuner began previews on March 15, 2018, ahead of an official opening on April 19, and it will have played a total of 39 previews and 509 regular performances upon closing. A National Tour of the production will kick off in Syracuse, New York this fall and a West End production is currently in development for London.
This My Fair Lady is a winsome production. Don’t get to use that word in a sentence too often. But then you don’t see a confection of a show too often either. By now you all know the story. 1912 – London - Man, Henry Higgins (Harry Hadden-Paton), spots woman, Eliza Doolittle (Lauren Ambrose) selling flowers outside the opera on a late London spring night. This gal has spark and spit, but... Read more