{"id":197779,"date":"2026-04-15T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:39:13","slug":"f-murray-abraham-shereen-ahmed-more-will-star-in-my-fair-lady-concert-for-irish-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197779\/","title":{"rendered":"F. Murray Abraham, Shereen Ahmed, More Will Star in My Fair Lady Concert for Irish Rep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Repertory Theatre will present a concert performance of Alan Jay Lerner<\/a> and Frederick Loewe<\/a>‘s\u00a0My\u00a0Fair Lady as their 2026 gala, set for June 8 at The Town Hall in NYC. Charlotte Moore<\/a> and Ciar\u00e1n O’Reilly will co-direct.<\/p>\n

The evening will feature performances from\u00a0Shereen Ahmed<\/a> (who played the title role in the\u00a0My Fair Lady<\/a>\u00a0national tour), Oscar winner\u00a0F. Murray Abraham<\/a> (Amadeus),\u00a0Melissa Errico<\/a> (Dear Liar), Tony Award nominee John Douglas Thompson<\/a> (Endgame), Gary Troy (The Dead, 1904), and Nik Walker<\/a> (Spamalot). A special virtual introduction from original\u00a0My Fair Lady star Julie Andrews<\/a> will begin the performance, with additional casting to be announced.<\/p>\n

John Bell<\/a> will music direct the concert, which will feature a full orchestra and chorus.<\/p>\n

Premiering on Broadway in 1956,\u00a0My Fair Lady is Lerner and Loewe’s musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw<\/a>‘s\u00a0Pygmalion<\/a>, centering on an English phonetician who bets a friend that he can tutor a Cockney flower seller into passing as a life-long member of London’s high society. Andrews and Rex Harrison<\/a> starred in the original Broadway and West End productions, which made Andrews into a household name and the musical into one of the most popular in the canon. Its score introduced such favorites as “I\u00a0Could Have Danced All Night,”\u00a0“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “On the Street Where You Live,”\u00a0“Show Me,”\u00a0“Get Me to the Church on Time,”\u00a0and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.”<\/p>\n

Concert-only tickets are available alongside Patron Packages that include a post-show dinner at Bryant Park Grill. Irish Rep members can currently get tickets at IrishRep.org<\/a>, with general sales due to begin April 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Repertory Theatre will present a concert performance of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe‘s\u00a0My\u00a0Fair Lady as their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-197779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}