Lyric Stage's MY FAIR LADY To Feature 38 Piece Orchestra, Opens Friday 9/10
By: Gabrielle Sierra
Lyric Stage's MY FAIR LADY, featuring a 38 piece orchestra and a 31 person cast, opens Friday at the Irving Arts Center's Carpenter Performance Hall. Tickets can by Ordered Online by Clicking Here or by calling the box office @ 972-252-2787.
To open Lyric Stage's eighteenth season, Founding Producer Steven Jones has selected MY FAIR LADY, one of the greatest American musicals ever written. Lyric Stage may be the only place in the world you can hear "I Could Have Danced All Night," "On The Street Where You Live," "The Rain In Spain," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "Get Me To The Church On Time" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" with a full 38 piece orchestra playing Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang's original Broadway orchestrations.Lyric Stage Music Director/Conductor Jay Dias returns to the podium for MY FAIR LADY. Len Pfluger will direct and choreograph the 31 member cast. Kimberly Whalen (Julie Jordan in Lyric Stage's Carousel, Maria in Lyric Stage's West Side Story and Louisa in the 50th Anniversary cast of The Fantasticks Off-Broadway) will star as Eliza Doolittle. J. Brent Alford will play Henry Higgins with Gary Taggart as Pickering, Sonny Franks as Doolittle and Daniel R. Johnson as Freddy. Noelle Stanley, Julie Erickson, Eric Aultman, Felecia Benton, Mallory Brophy, Courtney Dahl, Vicki Dean, Dayton Dobbs, Caitlin Galloway, Graham Galloway, Katherine Gentsch, Amber Nicole Guest, Martin Guerra, Sarah Harder, Joseph Holt, Will Huse, Babakayode Ipaye, Augustine Jalomo, Kallie Katzman, Thomas Renner, Michael Sylvester, Dana Taylor, Jay Taylor, Keith Warren, Lucia Welch and James Williams round out the cast.
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