NewsPHOTO CALL: Robert Sean Leonard, Paxton Whitehead and Charlotte Parry in the Old Globe's PygmalionDirector Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, opened Jan. 17 following previews from Jan. 12 at The Old Globe in San Diego.
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Krissie Fullerton
January 17, 2013
Leonard ("House.", The Invention of Love)>The Importance of Being Earnest) are joined by Kandis Chappell as Mrs. Higgins, Don Sparks as Mr. Doolittle, Deborah Taylor as Mrs. Pearce and Paxton Whitehead as Col. Pickering.
The piece is billed as a 100th-anniversary production of the classic about a lower-class flower girl named Eliza who breaks down social barriers after she learns to speak perfect English under the wing of Prof. Higgins, the speech and dialect expert who is also a selfish bully. Here's a look at the production:
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Robert Sean Leonard, Paxton Whitehead and Charlotte Parry in the Old Globe's Pygmalion
Robert Sean Leonard, Paxton Whitehead and Charlotte Parry in the Old Globe's Pygmalion
Director Nicholas Martin's new staging of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard as Prof. Henry Higgins and Charlotte Parry as Eliza, opened Jan. 17 following previews from Jan. 12 at The Old Globe in San Diego. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Robert Sean Leonard and Charlotte Parry
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The cast of Pygmalion
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Charlotte Parry, Paxton Whitehead, Kandis Chappell and Robert Sean Leonard
Henry DiRocco
Charlotte Parry and Robert Sean Leonard
Henry DiRocco
Paxton Whitehead, Charlotte Parry, Robert Sean Leonard and Deborah Taylor