Rupert Everett, Kara Tointon Set for West End's PYGMALION

According to Whatsonstage.com, Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon are set to star in the West End transfer of Chichester Festival's Pygmalion. Everett will be reprising the role of Higgins, and will be joined by director Philip Prose, who also took part in the Chichester production. 

The production will play the Garrick Theatre, May 12 through September 3. 

Everett recently made his Broadway debut at the Shubert Theatre in Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring alongside Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole and Jayne Atkinson, directed by Michael Blakemore.  He is perhaps best known for such films as: My Best Friend's Wedding, An Ideal Husband, The Next Best Thing and the Shrek sequels.

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.

For addional information, click here.

 

Test and expand your Broadway knowledge with our new game - The Broadway Match-Up! How well do you know your Broadway casting trivia?	Play the Daily Game, explore current shows, and delve into past decades like the 2000s, 80s, and the Golden Age. Challenge your friends and see where you rank!
How well do you know your Tony Awards history? Take our never-ending quiz of nominations and winner history and challenge your friends.	Can you beat your friends? Play today’s daily Broadway word game, featuring a new theatrically inspired word or phrase every day!