Will My Fair Lady Be Able to Do an Art???
Date: 28 January 2003
It has certainly worked for the likes of
Art, The Vagina Monologues and now,
This Is Our Youth, but could the quick-rotation cast concept work for a big-budget musical? It's worked to an extent with
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's supporting role of the Child Catcher, who, in less than a year, has been played by Richard O'Brien, Paul O'Grady, Peter Polycarpou and soon Derek Griffiths. Now, rumour has it, producer
Cameron Mackintosh wants to give it a go with none other than the leads in Trevor Nunn's multi award-winning revival of
My Fair Lady. The current Professor Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle -
Alex Jennings and
Joanna Riding - have both been nominated for Olivier awards this year, but they'll be off soon. They're expected to be replaced in March by Anthony Andrews (best remembered for the likes of
Brideshead Revisited and
Under the Volcano on television) and
Laura Michelle Kelly (
Mamma Mia!), but the length of those contracts, especially for Andrews, may be shorter than normal for a musical. Talks about taking on the role of the irritable linguistics professor for short stints have apparently been had with several big names, not least Jeremy Irons and original star
Jonathan Pryce.
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