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Claire Danes hitting Broadway in "Pygmalion"


(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-12 08:41


LOS ANGELES?- Claire Danes will make her Broadway debut as Eliza
Doolittle in a new production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" on the
Great White Way.

David Grindley is directing the play, which is being produced by the
Roundabout Theatre Company.

Based on the classical myth, "Pygmalion" centers on professor Henry
Higgins -- Tony winner Jefferson Mays already has been cast in the role
-- who comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza. He
makes a bet that he can take her from the gutters of London and pass her
off as a society lady simply by teaching her the right dialect in which
to speak, but he discovers that this task is complicated by human
emotions.

Shaw's famous play inspired the award-winning musical "My Fair Lady,"
written and composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which bowed
in 1956. It was adapted into a 1964 screen musical directed by George
Cukor and starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. The movie won eight
Oscars, including the prize for best picture.

"Pygmalion," which will bow at the American Airlines Theatre, will begin
previews September 21 and open officially October 18. The limited
engagement runs through December 16. Additional cast members will be
announced shortly.

On the big screen, Danes stars in the recently released "Evening," an
ensemble drama whose case includes Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close, Patrick
Wilson, Toni Collette and Meryl Streep. She will next star in Matthew
Vaughn's "Stardust" opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro.























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