Lesley Garrett, Michael D Xavier and Adam Woodyatt are among the cast of the UK and Ireland tour of My Fair Lady.
The previously announced tour of Bartlett Sher’s My Fair Lady will open at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford this September, with the show currently booking until July next year.
The cast includes Garrett as Mrs Pearce, Xavier as Henry Higgins, Woodyatt Alfred P Doolittle, Charlotte Kennedy as Eliza Doolittle, John Middleton as Colonel Pickering, Tom Liggins as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, and Heather Jackson will reprise her role as Mrs Higgins.
Other members are Dammi Aregbeshola, Bernadette Bangura, Joseph Claus, Jordan Crouch, Jamie Cruttenden, Francessca Daniella-Baker, Barry Drummond, Bethany Huckle, Emma Johnson, Sinead Kenny, Jenny Legg, Rebekah Lowings, Carl Patrick, Tom Ping, Dominique Planter, Joseph Poulton, John Stacey, Joshua Steel, Oliver Tester, Adam Vaughan, Annie Wensak and Paul Westwood as the ensemble. Further casting is to be announced.
Following its opening in Bradford, the show will tour to Dublin, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Southampton, Birmingham and Canterbury with more cities to be announced.
My Fair Lady transferred from Broadway to the UK with the Lincoln Center production produced in the UK by James L. Nederlander, Jamie Wilson, Hunter Arnold, Crossroads Live, Playful Productions and the English National Opera.
Book and lyrics are by Alan Jay Lerner with music by Frederick Loewe and adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion.
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