My Fair Lady - London Coliseum / UK & Ireland Tour

Based on how it seems to be selling on tour so far I'm not sure they'll risk more venues 🤷‍♂️

West end covers announced her understudy on Thurs so presume not….

Not too much to add here - sound and scenery issues were already flagged upthread. Saw this yesterday evening via a TodayTix rush ticket. Aircon was sadly struggling…

I found it really hard to get into- all the screamy bits at the beginning could definitely be condensed. Though it got better and more absorbing half an hour in. First time seeing this - beautiful melodies, references to classism still relevant, treatment by book pretty dated.

Ridiculous and insulting that they’re still selling tickets using her name as a selling point.

I'd love to see the show again with Vanessa in it but after seeing how Glenda Jackson was struggling to get on the stage at the BFI the other week, I think I'd feel bad paying to see someone struggling through 8 shows a week. She's more than earned her stripes in her career and it sort of feels like we're making her into some sort of rare animal in a zoo. If she was struggling as much as people say she was in that first week, it's probably for the best that she doesn't continue but I do think they should change the name on the poster and press materials and give whoever is understudying the credit - they've been doing a fab job !

Thats a great offer. I paid full stalls price to see it when it opened. Should have waited but its not a show I especially want to see again even with the discount.
Some friends this week asked me about offers and I found an offer for stalls seats for £60. They were pleased as its saved them £30 a ticket so I don't think I'll mention this offer to them. They won't be pleased.

I have just tried the ticket code again and it does still work. After clicking on "I have a ticket Code" Enter the code and click on Find Tickets and you should see the text "What's on Stage £25 100th perf promo". Then select any seats except the top price ones and the price will momentarily show the full price (if the system is slow) and then change to £27.50. It does not work for matinees though.

I was thinking that, surely leaving things rather late. I liked the tour which was about 2006? Honor Blackman was sublime as Mrs Higgins and Amy Nuttal was a charming Eliza.

My Fair Lady’s Twitter account (and I expect their other social platforms too) have just posted a short statement from Vanessa Redgrave confirming her departure from the production, saying she needs a rest following a stretch of Covid.

Hardly surprising and confirms what we already knew/assumed, but it’s almost offensive to finally release a statement now given she’s been absent from the production for over two months! I guess they held out as long as they could to try and support the already poor ticket sales 😞

Such a shame as I really enjoyed it when I went, but for whatever reason it’s not quite clicked or taken off with audiences. And it’s a big theatre to fill!

I do hope it's a good cast especially as they're advertising a large orchestra. The production will hopefully sit much more comfortably on our stage at the Bord Gais in Dublin and there is a great energy between the house and stage.