Wednesday 21 March 2001—Saturday 24 March 2001
Perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950s, My Fair Lady came into being only after Hungarian film producer Gabriel Pascal devoted the last two years of his life to finding writers who would adapt George Bernard Shaw’s 1914 play Pygmalion into a musical. Rejected by the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein and Noël Coward, Pascal finally turned to the younger but very talented duo of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner.
The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a coarse little peddler of flowers in Covent Garden who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to fulfil her dream of working in a flower shop. Eliza succeeds so well, however, that she outgrows her social station and–in a development added by librettist Lerner–even manages to get Higgins to fall in love with her.
My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956 and enjoyed a run of 2,717 performances, which lasted more than nine years. The original production featured Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins and Julie Andrews as Eliza. The 1964 film version starred Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Audrey Hepburn.
Principal Cast
- Eliza Doolittle
- Rochene Deeley
- Freddy Eynsford-Hill
- Gary Lawson
- Mrs Eynsford-hill
- Rebecca Chisholm
- Colonel Pickering
- Allan Ayre
- Henry Higgins
- Ian Atherton
- George The Bartender
- Stuart Lauder
- Alfred P. Doolittle
- Ian Stewart
- Jamie
- Scott Stead
- Harry
- Gus Gordon
- Mrs. Pearce
- Lindsay C. McKerracher
- Mrs Hopkins
- Laura Campbell
- Henry Higgins Servant
- Lynne Hotchkiss
- Henry Higgins Servant
- Gillian Stewart
- Henry Higgins Servant
- Ruth Gray
- Mrs Higgins
- Helen Aitken
- Charles - Mrs Higgins Chauffeur
- David McKiver
- Lord Boxington
- Scott McKenzie
- Lady Boxington
- Leanne McKenzie
- Policeman
- Colin Stead
- Flower Girl
- Carol-Ann Thorburn
- Professor Zoltan Karpathy
- Scott McKenzie
- Queen of Transylvania
- Elizabeth Paterson
Children
Chorus
- Edith Wilson
- Margaret McDougall
- Nicola McGovern
- Angela Salgo
- Elspeth Mitchell
- Margaret Brough
- Catherine Gahagan
- Isobel Gosland
- Fay Hewitson
- Margaret Johnson
- Christine Long
- Heather Wilson
- Linda Mathie
- Eileen McGuire
- Lynn Lester
- Andrew McQueen
- Kathleen Redmond
- Barbara Kennedy
- John McGunnigle
- Dawn Halliday
- Pauline Thomson
Production Staff
- Director
- Frank J. Hotchkiss
- Musical Director
- Douglas G. H. Rolland
- Choreographer
- Helen M Harris
- Rehearsal Accompanist
- George Inwood
- Wardrobe
- Margaret Coates
- Wardrobe
- Susan Stewart
- Wardrobe
- Margaret Yuill
- Makeup
- Nancy Clark
- Lighting
- Moray Coull
- Sound
- Brian Gorrie
- Lighting Operator
- Chris Hogg
- Set Decor
- Margaret Yuill
- Props
- Marion Stewart
- Prompt
- David R. Mitchinson
- Programme Compilation
- Carla Valentini
- Programme/Poster Designs
- Margaret Yuill
- Front of House Manager
- Anne Shaw
Crew
- Stage Manager
- Carla Valentini
- Stage Crew
- Danielle Andrew
- Stage Crew
- Fiona Burrows
- Stage Crew
- Peter Dempster
- Stage Crew
- Thomas Edmonds
- Stage Crew
- Neil Grant
- Stage Crew
- Nicola Lyttle
- Stage Crew
- Michael Kazemi
- Stage Crew
- Gary Knox
- Stage Crew
- Eddie McCann
- Stage Crew
- Maxime McQuat
- Stage Crew
- Kevin Shiach
- Stage Crew
- Jamie Stewart
- Stage Crew
- Alan Third
- Follow Spot
- David Wilson
- Follow Spot
- Stuart Douglas
- Flys
- Ian Johnston
- Flys
- Colin Shirley
- Flys
- Philip Floyd
- Flys
- Stuart Rose