Pygmalion announces full cast

The Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full cast for their Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw�s Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley, opening at the American Airlines Theatre on 18 Oct 2007, following previews from 21 Sep and running through to 16 Dec 2007.

Joining the previously announced Jefferson Mays as 'Henry Higgins' and Claire Danes - who is to make her Broadway debut - as 'Eliza Doolittle', are Boyd Gaines (Colonel Pickering), Jay O. Sanders (Alfred Doolittle), Helen Carey (Mrs. Higgins), Brenda Wehle (Mrs. Pearce), Kerry Bishe (Clara Eynsford Hill), Kieran Campion (Freddy Eynsford Hill), Sandra Shipley (Mrs. Eynsford Hill), Jonathan Fielding (Bystander), Robin Mosley (Bystander) and Karen Walsh (Parlour Maid).

The design team features Jonathan Fensom (Set and costumes), Jason Taylor (lighting) and Gregory Clarke (Sound).

Boyd Gaines and Jefferson Mays re-unite with director David Grindley, after recently starring in in the Broadway revival of R. C. Sherriff's 'Journey's End', which earned Grindley a 2007 Tony Award nomination for best director, and which won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.

George Bernard Shaw�s famous play, Pygmalion, inspired the legendary and award winning musical My Fair Lady, written and composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.

When Professor Henry Higgins (Mays) comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza Doolittle (Danes), Higgins makes a bet that he can take Eliza from the gutters of London and pass her off as a society lady, by simply teaching her the right dialect in which to speak. Higgins soon discovers that this task involves much more than knowledge; it involves patience and most importantly, affairs of the heart.

The design team includes Jonathan Fensom (sets & costumes), Jason Taylor (lights) and Gregory Clarke (sound).

Pygmalion premiered on Broadway in 1914 at the Park Theatre and subsequently was revived on Broadway in 1927, 1938, 1945 and 1987.

Roundabout Theatre Company has a long association with George Bernard Shaw�s work, having staged over twenty productions since 1971. The most recent Shaw plays seen on Roundabout stages include Heartbreak House (2006-2007), Major Barbara (2000-2001), Arms and the Man (1999-2000), You Never Can Tell (1997-1998) and Misalliance (1996-1997).