Marla Schaffel, John Vickery to Headline My Fair Lady Tour

Broadway stars Marla Schaffel and John Vickery will play Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins in a three-month national tour of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady that will kick off August 16-21 at Atlanta’s Fox Theater. Other cities scheduled for the tour, which is produced by Theater of the Stars, include Vienna (Virginia), Providence, Buffalo, Hartford, Memphis, Rochester, Dayton, Fort Myers, Clearwater, and Detroit.

The production is directed by Drew Scott Harris and features choreography by Lisa Guignard. The supporting cast includes James Valentine as Colonel Pickering, Rob Donohoe as Alfred P. Doolittle, Jim Weitzer as Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Melinda Turner as Mrs. Higgins, and Ellen Horst as Mrs. Pierce.

Schaffel received a Tony Award nomination, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in the title role of the Broadway production of the musical Jane Eyre. She has starred in a previous tour of My Fair Lady and in national tours of Evita and The Sound of Music. Vickery originated the role of Scar in the Broadway production of The Lion King; his other Broadway credits include The Sisters Rosensweig, The Real Thing (in which he replaced Jeremy Irons), and Macbeth.

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