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My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, 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.
Flash forward to today and Barrios-Torres is starring in the national tour of "My Fair Lady," where she plays Eliza Doolittle, the same role Hepburn brought to life on screen.
Barrios-Torres will be playing Eliza when "My Fair Lady," with with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, comes to The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the ...
Kelly's West End musical credits include Beauty and the Beast, Whistle Down The Wind as Swallow (2000) (with a 10-year-old Jessie J), Les Misérables as Eponine at the Palace Theatre (2001), Mamma Mia! as Sophie at the Prince Edward Theatre (2002), and My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle in the transfer of the National Theatre's production to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (2003). [2]
The musical finally transferred to the Garrick Theatre in the West End in 2021 for a limited one-month run before closing in the same year. [12] In August 2024 it was announced that Lynch will star as Eliza Doolittle in the Leicester Curve's production of My Fair Lady, directed by Artistic Director Nikolai Foster. [13]
Alex Michael Jennings CBE (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor of the stage and screen, who worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.For his work on the London stage, Jennings received three Olivier Awards, winning for Too Clever by Half (1988), Peer Gynt (1996), and My Fair Lady (2003).
She went on to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the National Theatre in London. Despite missing many performances (citing health problems) and withdrawing nearly five months early from the production's transfer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, [33] she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical at the 2002 ceremony.
Kerry Jane Ellis was born on 6 May 1979 in Haughley, [4] near Stowmarket, in Suffolk, the daughter of Sandra Ann Reed and Terry John Ellis. [5] [6] Describing herself as a hyperactive young girl, she attended dance classes at the Ann Holland School of Theatre Dance and performed in local shows and pantomimes whilst also enjoying swimming and horse-riding.