POSTPONED: My Fair Lady

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Joan Marcus

"My Fair Lady" cast members Harry Hadden Paton, Lauren Ambrose and Allan Corduner.

7:30 pm on 4/21-23, 8 pm on 4/24, 2 & 8 pm on 4/25 and 1 & 6:30 pm, 4/26.

press release: Overture Center for the Arts is pleased to announce that the North American tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY will be a part of Madison’s 2019-2020 Broadway season. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the North American tour will play in Overture Hall from Tuesday, April 21 through Sunday, April 26.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, Feb. 1 at 11 a.m.!

There is a maximum purchase limit of eight (8) tickets per household for the engagement. Prices range from $38 to $131.

Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY is the winner of five Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Revival of 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, which premiered in the spring of 2018, ended its long run at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater on July 7, 2019, after playing 548 performances.

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 North American tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY features choreography by Christopher Gattelli and has sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder and sound by Marc Salzberg. 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 Rittmann. Tour orchestrations are by Josh Clayton and music direction is by John Bell. It is produced by Nederlander Presentations, Inc.