Two Elizas for price of one (From Gazette Series)

Two Elizas for price of one

THERE will be two Eliza Doolittles in the Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre's production of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady at the Bristol Hippodrome from Tuesday, January 24 to Saturday, February 18.

Amy Nuttall and Lisa O'Hare will be sharing the vocally demanding role of Eliza due to Amy's on-going recording commitments for her forthcoming solo album.

Amy is probably best known for her role as Chloe Atkinson in Emmerdale. However, she first worked for Cameron when she understudied and played Christine in the national tour of The Phantom of the Opera.

Lisa O-Hare comes direct to My Fair Lady from understudying and playing the title role in Cameron and Disney's West End production of Mary Poppins. Her other West End credits include Anything Goes.

Amy and Lisa join Christopher Cazenove as Professor Higgins, Russ Abbot as Alfred P Doolittle (until 4 February), Hannah Gordon as Mrs Higgins and Stephen Moore as Colonel Pickering.

Russ Abbot, Hannah Gordon and Stephen Moore are returning to the roles they played to critical acclaim at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.

This landmark production originally opened at the Lyttelton Theatre in March 2001 before transferring to the Theatre Royal in July 2001 where it ran for two and a half years.

The production opened to a record-breaking advance and went on to win a total of five Laurence Olivier Awards, including Outstanding Musical Production and Best Theatre Choreographer, Matthew Bourne. In 2002 it also received the Hilton Award for Outstanding Musical Production.

My Fair Lady has book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe and is adapted from Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture.

This production is directed by Trevor Nunn and has choreography and musical staging by Matthew Bourne, with sets and costumes designed by Anthony Ward and lighting designed by David Hersey.

Tickets are now on sale via Ticketmaster on 0870 607 7500 or by calling in to the theatre box office. They can also be bought online at www.getlive.co.uk/bristol