New York: March 15, 1956 – September 29 1962
Mark Hellinger Theatre / Broadhurst Theatre / Broadway Theatre
London: 1958 – 1963
Theatre Royal Drury Lane
First performance: 30 April 1958 (ran for five and a half years; 2,281 performances)
H.M.Tennant Ltd. present Herman Levin’s production
Julie Andrews
, Alec Clunes, Stanley Holloway
with Zena Dare, Linda Gray, Betty Woolfe, Margaret Halstan, Leonard Weir, Gavin Gordon, Max Oldaker, Alan Dudley, Elaine Garreau
Adapted from Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
Book & Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Production staged by Moss Hart
Choreography and Musical Numbers by Hanya Holm
Production designed by Oliver Smith
Costumes designed by Cecil Beaton
Musical Arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett and Phil Lang
Dance Music arranged by Trude Rittman
Lighting by Joe Davis
Musical Adviser Cyril Ornadel
Conductor Robert Philpot
Lighting Plan
The lighting plan by Joe Davis can be viewed on the Backstage Heritage Collection
National Theatre, London
Lyttleton Stage: March 15 2001 – July 2001
Director: Trevor Nunn
Choreography: Matthew Bourne
Set Design: Anthony Ward
Lighting Design: David Hersey
Sound Design: Paul Groothius
Associate Lighting Designer: Jenny Kagan
Starred: Martine McCutcheon, Jonathan Pryce, Dennis Waterman
Transferred to Theatre Royal Drury Lane in July 2001
Theatre Royal Drury Lane 2001
July 21 2001 – August 30 2003
See above for credits.
Lighting Equipment:
Control: Strand 530i
DHA Digital Light Curtains
Vari*Lite VL6C
4 x Vari*Lite VL7 rain effects (replaced gobo wheel with custom continuous break-up)
ETC Source Fours (750W lamps)
2.5k tungsten Pari projector
Parcans with Wybron CXI colour-mixers / Colorams
5 x Alto Fresnel (gauze backlight) with Rainbow scrollers
L&E M16 battens
Orion groundrows
4 x WL VSFX cloud projector
2 x 5kW Fresnel
2 x Reich & Vogel 1k beamlight followspots (side)
2 x Robert Juliat Aramis followspots (auditorium)
See LSI article below for more details
Related Equipment:
Documents
My Fair Lady - Joe Davis (August 1957)
[LX Plan - click on the thumbnail]
From David W. Kidd Collection
