Musical in two acts
Musical version of the comedy by G. B. Shaw, Pygmalion (1912), lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Conductor | Donato Renzetti
Master of the Chorus | Gea Garatti Ansini
Stage director | Paul Curran
Set designer | Gary Mc Cann
Costume designer | Giusi Giustino
Choreographer | Kyle Lang
Lighting designer| David Martin Jacques
Cast
Eliza Doolittle | Nancy Sullivan
Mr. Henry Higgins | Robert Hands
Colonel Pickering | John Conroy
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of Teatro di San Carlo
Coproduction of Teatro di San Carlo and Teatro Massimo di Palermo
October 2021
SERIE BLU
Thursday 14 October, h 20.00 - Series A - Fee V
Friday 15 October, h 20.00 - Series C / D - Fee VI
Saturday 16 October, h 17.00 - Out of Subscription / h 21.00 - Out of Subscription (two performances) - Fee V
Sunday 17 October, h 17.00 - Series F - Fee V
Tuesday 19 October, h 20.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee VI
Wednesday 20 October, h 18.00 - Series B - Fee VI
Thursday 21 October, h 18.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee VI
Friday 22 October, h 17.00 - Out of Subscription / h 21.00 - Out of Subscription (two performances) - Fee VI
Saturday 23 October, h 17.00 - Out of Subscription / h 21.00 - Out of Subscription (two performances) - Fee V
Sunday 24 October, h 17.00 - Out of Subscription - Fee V
Language: Sung in English with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 2 hours and 50 minutes, with one interval
Still fresh after 60 years from its Broadway opening, this show landed two seasons ago at Teatro di San Carlo. One of the most famous in its genre, this musical run on Broadway for 2717 performances after his debut in March, 1956 and for 2281 performances in the West End. A very young Julie Andrews was casted as Eliza Doolittle, the clumsy flower girl, in both New York and London. The role was then given to Audrey Hepburn for the film version of 1964, which sanctioned the success of the show. It is well known that lyricist Alan Lerner took the plot and dialogue from Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913) and worked closely with composer Frederick Loewe to create a musical that included all the genre's fashionable ingredients with funny scenes, misadventures and great chorus numbers. My Fair Lady's music takes the spectator for a happy spin of famous melodies with entire sections worthy of an opera masterpiece but always light-heartedly. It is the story of a mature professor that falls in love with his creation (Pygmalion's myth). The girl, to which he teaches phonetics and good bed manners, in order to win a bet and to introduce her to the English upper class, ends up shaking his foundations, and changes his misogynous vision of the world.