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Shows · My Fair Lady · Vivian Beaumont Theater, 2018

My Fair Lady, 2018

Opened April 19, 2018

Closed July 7, 2019

553 performances

Vivian Beaumont Theater

Revival

Broadway

My Fair Lady
Richard Maney-Photo by Friedman-Abeles, NYC

Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 43rd longest run.

Other stagings of My Fair Lady 5 more

1956
Mark Hellinger TheatreBroadway Original, directed by Moss Hart
2,717 performances
1958
ProductionLondon
1976
St James TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Jerry Adler
377 performances
1981
Uris TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Patrick Garland
119 performances
1993
Virginia TheatreBroadway Revival, directed by Alan Jay Lerner
165 performances

Who was in it43 named

Manu Narayan
Cameron Adams
Rebecca Eichenberger
Suellen Estey
Steven Trumon Gray
Adam Grupper
Michael Halling
Sasha Hutchings
Liz Mccartney
Justin Lee Miller
Rommel Pierre O Choa
Keven Quillon
Blair Ross
Christine Cornish Smith
Paul Slade Smith
Samantha Sturm
Matt Wall
Lee Zarrett
Rosemary Harris
Christian Dante White
Mark Aldrich
Becca Ayers
Barbara Jo Bednarczuk
Hannah Florence
Kaitlyn Frank
Todd A Horman
Maryann Hu
Mary Claire King

Creative team

Director
Bartlett Sher
Choreographer
Christopher Gattelli

Recordings 2 released while this run was on

2018
My Fair Lady (2018 Broadway Cast Recording) Broadway Records BR-CD10018, released June 8, 2018
United States
2018
My Fair Lady (2018 Broadway Cast Recording) Broadway Records, released June 8, 2018
Worldwide

44 more exist for other runs of this show: see My Fair Lady for all of them.

Around this production

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London product…

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