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Jeremy Daniel

Three people on a small couch.

Jonathan Grunert, Madeline Powell and John Adkison (from left) in the national tour of "My Fair Lady."

Broadway musicals like Hamilton or Six may understandably generate more buzz, there is nothing like the comfort of a classic like My Fair Lady. The Lerner and Loewe adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion preserves the thorny ethical questions of the original text (feminism, classism, morality in general) although it pretties them up with luscious earworms like “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live,” and of course the indelible “The Rain in Spain.” This 2018 revival of the 1956 musical is directed by Bartlett Sher. Performances at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 21-22, 1 and 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 24, 2 and 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 25, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 26.

media release: Overture Center for the Arts is pleased to announce that the Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY, directed by Bartlett Sher, is coming to Madison with eight performances beginning Tuesday, Nov. 21 in Overture Hall. Tickets go on sale to the public starting Friday, Oct. 6 at 11 a.m. at overture.org.

MY FAIR LADY will play Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Note there will be no Thursday performance.

Beginning Friday, Oct. 6, tickets will be available at Overture’s Box Office and online at overture.org. To charge tickets, call 608-258-4141 (Monday-Saturday, 11-6, Sunday 12-6). Orders for groups of 10 or more may be placed by emailing groups@overture.org.

About MY FAIR LADY

Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY is the winner of 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Revival of a Musical and was nominated for 10 Tony Awards,^Ⓡ including Best Musical Revival, five Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical Revival, and three Drama League Awards, including Best Musical Revival. The production premiered in the spring of 2018 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion, MY FAIR LADY, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, premiered on Broadway on March 15, 1956. The legendary original production won six Tony Awards,^Ⓡ including Best Musical and ran for 2,717 performances making it, at the time, the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Boasting a score that contains such now-classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “The Rain in Spain” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face,” Lincoln Center Theater’s production of MY FAIR LADY was hailed by The New York Times as “Thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was. A marvelous and transformative revival.” New York Magazine described it as “Enthralling,” adding that “Bartlett Sher’s glowing revival proves that a beloved musical from another era can keep on kicking,” and Entertainment Weekly raved “A sumptuous new revival of the most perfect musical of all time. A masterful piece of entertainment.”

The tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY directed by Bartlett Sher with tour direction by Samantha Saltzman features original choreography by Christopher Gattelli with tour choreography by Jim Cooney, and has sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder and sound by Marc Salzberg and Beth Lake. Music supervision is by Ted Sperling, featuring MY FAIR LADY’s original musical arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett and Phil Lang, and dance arrangements by Trude Rittman. Tour orchestrations are by Josh Clayton and Larry Blank and music direction is by David Andrews Rogers. It is produced by Troika Entertainment, LLC.

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Ticket buyers are reminded that overture.org is the only official retail ticket outlet for all performances at Overture Center. Ticket buyers who purchase tickets from a ticket broker or any third party should be aware that Overture Center is unable to reprint or replace lost or stolen tickets and is unable to contact patrons with information regarding time changes or other pertinent updates regarding the performance.