My Fair Lady

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

April - May, 2017

• My Fair Lady

is presented by

arrangement with Tams-Witmark

Music Library, Inc.,

560 Lexington Avenue,

New York, New York 10022.

• 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.

• New York principal casting by

Tara Rubin Casting.

• Chicago principal casting by

Claire Simon Casting.

• Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes

to thank its official airline,

American Airlines.

• No one will be admitted while

the performance is in progress.

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:

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.

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

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

GOUGH*

Alfred P. Doolittle

DONALD MAXWELL*

Jamie

JAMES ROMNEY

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*

Lord Boxington

BILL M

GOUGH*

Lady Boxington

PEGGY ROEDER*

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

Higgins’s Servants:

Matthew Carroll, Matthew Keffer*, Amy Kuckelman, Katelyn Lee,

Kenneth Nichols, Will Skrip, Marie Sokolova, Pamela Williams

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,

Jessica Wolfrum Raun, Todd Rhoades, Jacqueline Stewart, J Tyler Whitmer*

Understudies

: Jeff Diebold –

Henry Higgins

; Jennie Sophia –

Eliza Doolittle

;

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

*Lyric Opera debut