Organization

Hessisches Staatstheater

Soprano

Mira Benser

Eliza Doolittle

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Petra Urban

Mrs. Eynsford-​Hill

Stage director (+3)

Uwe Eric Laufenberg

Henry Higgins

Bass (+1)

Michael Birnbaum

Alfred P. Doolittle

Spoken (+3)

Uwe Kraus

Colonel Hugh Pickering

Singer

Margit Schulte-Tigges

Mrs. Higgins

Tenor (+1)

Björn Breckheimer

Freddy Eynsford-Hill

Soprano (+1)

Evelyn M Faber

Mrs. Pearce

Tenor (+3)

Klaus Krückemeyer

Zoltan Karpathy

Contralto (+4)

Jochen Elbert

Jamie

Bass (+4)

John D Holyoke

Harry

Thomas Braun

Bartender

Stage director

Stage director (+1)

Beka Savić

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Andreas Frank

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Bettina Neuhaus

Choreographer

Choreographer (+1)

Myriam Lifka

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+2)

Laura Weber

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+3)

Albert Horne

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Holger Reinhardt

Costume designer

Claudia Jenatsch

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Chorus

Choir of the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden

Orchestra

Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden

The Broadway classic "My Fair Lady" makes George Bernard Shaw's satire "Pygmalion" sing and dance. The basis is an old myth: A man creates an ideal female image according to his ideas - but what if this being wants to become self-employed? Linguist Henry Higgins initially sees the street slang of the young, uneducated Eliza as just a scientific challenge and makes her the object of a bet among friends. As soon as Eliza can pronounce "It's green so green ..." perfectly and thus passes for a fine lady at the ball, she has lost her usefulness for him. Or have the boundaries between above and below, power and powerlessness, man and woman finally shifted?

In the production at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden - as in the premiere of MY FAIR LADY in New York (1954) - the main roles are embodied by actors.

PREMIERE October 27, 2018

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