She makes this Eliza her own, a nod to Andrews and Hepburn but never a copycat. The musical has all those hits you’ll recognise including I Could Have Danced All Night, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? and The Rain in Spain, and Okereke in the female lead is an absolute delight. Harry Hadden-Paton as Henry Higgins and Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle (photo: Hugo Glendinning) From Eliza’s grandiloquent “How do you do’s?” to the Embassy Ball where she is the talk of tout London in a dazzling ballgown with Cinderella-worthy scarlet cloak, the metamorphosis from Cockney street girl to duchess is complete. Eliza moves into 27a Wimpole Street in London’s chichi Marylebone, and together with assistance of linguist Colonel Pickering and housekeeper Mrs Pearce, she embarks on her transformative journey from down-and-out to the crème de la crème of London society. My Fair Lady tells the tale of Cockney girl Eliza Doolittle who is rescued from a life of selling flowers in Covent Garden and mispronouncing her H’s by phonetics professor and smarty-pants Henry Higgins. The sparkling book and lyrics are by Alan Jay Lerner. In this 2022 production, the Coliseum stage is host to a spectacular cast of 32 whilst 36 musicians from the English National Opera’s orchestra play Frederick Loewe’s famous score down in the pit. The 1964 classic film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions. The production transferred to London in 1958 where it played in the West End for five and a half years. It premiered on Broadway in March 1956, winning six Tony Awards including Best Musical. My Fair Lady is adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s witty play, Pygmalion, as well as Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture of the same name. The company of the Lincoln Center Production of My Fair Lady (photo: Joan Marcus)
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