Pygmalion at the Old Vic

I grew up in Stepney, East London and still have the accent. When I was a kid at a local comprehensive the school arranged for us to go and see a production of Pygmalion at Toynbee Hall, which was a local settlement organisation set up for Oxford graduates to come and do good in the East End. It continues to have a rather nice theatre. I think our teachers sold the trip to us via its connection to My Fair Lady. You can imagine how disappointed we were that there were no songs! I don't think any of us came out of it wanting to 'speak proper' but it still makes me smile to think of how the theatre company were playing to a room full of Elizas most of whom had never seen a play before. Now approaching 60 I hope I manage to get tickets for this production - which I think I will appreciate a bit more!

Agree. Great cast but totally the wrong director with his day glo off-kilter sets and cartoon characters. He has his place but this isn't it. 

If Groundhog Day sells out they could be sold out from May!

Is it legal to sell tickets without disclosing their face value?

LondonTheatreDirect have a 24-hour pre-sale and are offering prices from £30 to £90 with premium at £144. However, the Old Vic website says non-premium tickets are £13 to £75. I can't see the Old Vic direct booking page to verify, but that appears to be a hefty undisclosed mark-up.

Clearly the Old Vic are complicit by allowing this agency early access.  They obviously don't give a fig for the ethics of how tickets are marketed to theatregoers either.  This theatre has probably done more virtue signalling than any other in recent years, but, when it comes to actually treating theatregoers respectfully and fairly, they show their true colours.

Not OV ticketing policy but the trigger warnings for Pygmalion, unless there was a mix up in the c&p.

Public booking at noon - which I couldn't make. Hit the OV site at 12.14 - about 1,100 in the queue - all done within 30-minutes.

It is usual for rehearsals to start 5 months before opening? I assume perhaps they're doing it now as Bertie Carvel has filming commitments in the summer.

I remember seeing a touring production of this at the Cheltenham Everyman around 2017(?). It was strangely minimalist where Henry Higgins had a music studio mixing room and the house visits took place in an elevated glass box. Does anyone remember what that production was?

Update: found it! It was the Headlong, Southampton’s Nuffield and the West Yorkshire Playhouse production with Natalie Gavin as Eliza and Sam Pritchard as Higgins. Idk if it says anything about the show that I can’t really remember the show outside of the weird pre-recorded sounds and terrarium for a living room!
amp.theguardian.com/stage/2017/feb/09/pygmalion-review-west-yorkshire-playhouse-leeds-shaw-higgins-headlong

Usually around 5 weeks before the show opens.

Or her father maybe?

I've got a copy somewhere, I might have a re-read.

I hope they not changing it. The press today have all gone into the trigger warnings and gender netrual toilets. Will sell my tickets if too radical.