Claire Danes to make her Broadway debut · 2007-07-14 11:32
Actress Claire Danes is to make her Broadway debut later this year as Eliza Doolittle in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
The 28-year-old will star opposite Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays, who will play the part of Henry Higgins.
Pygmalion premiered on Broadway in 1914 and was later adapted into the musical My Fair Lady, ?’?’?? informs.
Danes, who won a Golden Globe in 1995, will tread the boards in October when the plays opens for a two-month run.
The show tells the story of Professor Higgins?? bid to transform Doolittle, a poor and uneducated English girl, into a society lady.
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