My Fair Lady comes to Hippodrome

Birmingham Hippodrome have announced that New York 's Lincoln Center Theater 's critically acclaimed and multi award-winning production My Fair Lady is coming to the theatre.

It will play at the theatre from Wednesday 8 March to Sunday 26 March 2023 as part of a UK and Ireland tour which begins this September.

Directed by Bartlett Sher, the production, which premiered in the spring of 2018 at Lincoln Center 's Vivian Beaumont Theater, was the winner of the Tony Award for Best Costume Design, 5 Outer Critics ' Circle Awards including Best Musical Revival, the Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical Revival, and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical Revival and Costume Design.

Bartlett Sher said: “Getting a chance to revisit Shaw's extraordinary story of class and privilege in a new age is a rare and special event and I am thrilled to be able to take this epic musical on tour for audiences up and down the country to enjoy. ”

My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady ”.

With a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady 's score includes song such as 'I Could Have Danced All Night ', 'Get Me to the Church on Time ', 'Wouldn 't It Be Loverly ' and 'The Rain in Spain '.

Casting will be announced in due course.

Tickets are on general sale from 11am today at www.birminghamhippodrome.com or by calling 0844 338 5000