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Errico, Lithgow, Daltrey to Star in Hollywood Bowl My
Fair Lady Concert

By Andrew Gans
14 May 2003 

Melissa Errico  a 2003 Tony Award nominee for her
performance in Amour  said at the May 14 Tony
Nominees press reception that she will star in the
Aug. 3 My Fair Lady concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

As previously reported on PBOL, the Hollywood Bowl
will present the famed Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe
musical as part of its Weekend Spectaculars series.
Gordon Hunt will direct the one-night-only event,
featuring the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under the
direction of John Mauceri. 

Errico also revealed that she will co-star in the
concert with two-time Tony Award winner John Lithgow
as Henry Higgins, Roger Daltrey as Alfred P. Doolittle
and Paxton Whitehead as Colonel Pickering. Errico and
Whitehead are reprising the roles they played opposite
Richard Chamberlain in the 1993 revival at the
Virginia Theatre. 

My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion and features book and lyrics by Alan Jay
Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The original
Broadway production opened on March 15, 1956, ran for
more than six years and won nine Tony Awards,
including one for Best Musical. The score contains
such Broadway classics as "I Could Have Danced All
Night," "On the Street Where You Live," "Wouldn't It
Be Loverly?" and "Get Me to the Church on Time."

Melissa Errico began her professional career
portraying Cosette in Les Misirables, and she followed
with leading roles in Anna Karenina, My Fair Lady,
High Society, Amour and the City Center Encores!
productions of Call Me Madam and One Touch of Venus. 

The Hollywood Bowl is located at 2301 Highland Avenue
in Hollywood, CA. Tickets for My Fair Lady are
available by calling (323) 850-2000. Go to
www.hollywoodbowl.org for more information.


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-Brian in Atlanta
The Who This Month!
http://www.thewhothismonth.com

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