My Fair Lady

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O

Lyric Premiere New-to-Chicago Production MY FAIR LADY Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Music by Frederick Loewe Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture Pygmalion First performed on March 15, 1956, at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on April 28, 2017 In order of appearance:

• My Fair Lady is presented by

arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022.

Harry JACKSON EVANS* Angry Woman PEGGY ROEDER* Mrs. Pearce CINDY GOLD Butler DAVID LIVELY Mrs. Hopkins SARA SEVIGNY* First Maid LAURIE SEELY VASSALLI Second Maid CORINNE WALLACE-CRANE Mrs. Higgins HELEN CAREY* Charles JACKSON EVANS* Footman MATTHEW CARROLL Zoltan Karpathy MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL* Queen of Transylvania SHARON GARVEY COHEN Prince of Transylvania RON WATKINS Mrs. Higgins’s Maid JANET MARIE FARR Lord Boxington BILL M C GOUGH* Lady Boxington PEGGY ROEDER*

Eliza Doolittle LISA O’HARE* Freddy Eynsford-Hill BRYCE PINKHAM* Mrs. Eynsford-Hill CARMEN ROMAN* Colonel Pickering NICHOLAS LE PREVOST* Bystander NIKOLAS WENZEL Another Bystander PETER MORGAN Hoxton Man JOE SHADDAY Selsey Man HOSS BROCK Henry Higgins RICHARD E. GRANT* First Cockney HOSS BROCK Second Cockney NIKOLAS WENZEL Third Cockney PETER MORGAN Fourth Cockney JOE SHADDAY Bartender BILL M C GOUGH* Alfred P. Doolittle DONALD MAXWELL* Jamie JAMES ROMNEY

• A production created by the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris – General Director: Jean-Luc

Choplin, on December 9, 2010, in co-production with the State Academic Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Higgins’s Servants: Matthew Carroll, Matthew Keffer*, Amy Kuckelman, Katelyn Lee, Kenneth Nichols, Will Skrip, Marie Sokolova, Pamela Williams

• New York principal casting by Tara Rubin Casting.

Ensemble: Skyler Adams, Hoss Brock, Matthew Carroll, Sharon Garvey Cohen, Janet Marie Farr, Matthew Keffer*, Amy Kuckelman, Katelyn Lee, Will Mobley*, Peter Morgan, Kenneth Nichols, James Odom, Thomas Lewis Potter, Dominic Rescigno*, Stephen Schellhardt*, Joe Shadday, Will Skrip, Yvette Smith, Marie Sokolova, Laurie Seely Vassalli, Vince Wallace, Corinne Wallace-Crane, Ron Watkins, Sherry Watkins, Nikolas Wenzel, Pamela Williams, Fred Zimmerman Dancers : Aubrey Adams*, Shannon Alvis, Kristian Brooks*, Daniel Gold*, Tasha Heggem*, James E. Johnson V, Ethan R. Kirschbaum, Terence Marling*, Jamy Meek, Hayley Meier, Fred Zimmerman – Alfred P. Doolittle ; David Lively – Col. Pickering ; Peggy Roeder – Mrs. Higgins ; Jackson Evans – Zoltan Karpathy ; Michael Joseph Mitchell – Lord Boxington, Bartender, Butler ; Sara Sevigny – Mrs. Pearce, Lady Boxington, Angry Woman ; Corinne Wallace-Crane – Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, Mrs. Hopkins ; Skyler Adams – Harry, Jamie, Charles ; Yvette Smith – Queen of Transylvania ; Matthew Keffer – Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Cockney Quartet ; Ron Watkins, Kenneth Nichols, Will Skrip – Cockney Quartet ; Pamela Williams – Henry Higgins’s Maids ; Sherry Watkins – Mrs. Higgins’s Maid ; James Odom, Yvette Smith, Ron Watkins, Sherry Watkins – Servants Jessica Wolfrum Raun, Todd Rhoades, Jacqueline Stewart, J Tyler Whitmer* Understudies : Jeff Diebold – Henry Higgins ; Jennie Sophia – Eliza Doolittle ;

• Chicago principal casting by Claire Simon Casting.

• Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its official airline, American Airlines.

Conductor DAVID CHASE Original Director ROBERT CARSEN Revival Director OLIVIER FREDJ* Set Designer TIM HATLEY* Assistant Set Designer PHILIPPINE ORDINAIRE* Costume Designer ANTHONY POWELL* Assistant Costume Designer FRÉDÉRIC LLINARES* Co-Lighting Designer ROBERT CARSEN Co-Lighting Designer GIUSEPPE DI IORIO* Sound Designer MARK GREY Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Choreographer LYNNE PAGE*

Associate Choreographer REBECCA HOWELL* Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Associate Director MATTHEW OZAWA Assistant Director ELISE SANDELL Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Assistant Stage Managers RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY RACHEL A. TOBIAS Assistant Conductor VALERIE MAZE Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM TIM LENIHAN* Dramaturg IAN BURTON* Dialect Coach CHRISTINE ADAIRE* Sound Engineer JOE SCHOFIELD

• No one will be admitted while the performance is in progress.

*Lyric Opera debut

The American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA), is the union that represents the singers, dancers, actors, and staging personnel at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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