Angela Lansbury to Join West End's PYGMALION?

According to Whatsonstage.com, Angela Lansbury might be returning to the West End to star in the upcoming revival of PYGMALION. Lansbury would join previously reported Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon in the transfer of Chichester Festival's production, and would star as Mrs. Higgins.

The show will be directed by director Philip Prose, who also took part in the Chichester production. PYGMALION will play the Garrick Theatre, May 12 through September 3.

Lansbury has starred in the Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her 12 year run as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996.

Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit (2009) and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.

Pygmalion is about Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins, who makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's gArden Party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on women's independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.

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