My Fair Lady - London Coliseum / UK & Ireland Tour

Is it me or does Harry Hadden-Paton’s wig look a bit dodgy?

That dress looks like an amateur rip-off version. Surely they can do better than that?

I think the transfer was cancelled/ delayed because a producer backed out. I think they may still proceed with it for 2023. Possibly with different actors.

Not in the least bit concerned. This production has been free with the purse strings. I have zero doubts - from everything I'm hearing - about the quality of this show.

I am extremely dubious and leery however of the business it has done. I booked early for this (something I rarely ever do) and already my seat has lost £30 in value.

Todaytix for this one - at least it'll be cheap to go back for a second go.

Total cringe and cliched isn’t it. 

The pink dress might have looked better if they hadn’t put it against a pink backdrop. 

I cannot wait to see Amara in this. Can’t believe it’s already almost upon us

I rather like a shaved headed Higgins, especially as the floppy wig is rather clumsy.

Anyone going tonight as it opens today I think.

Why didn’t they just copy someone else’s design? Jeez.

Saw it tonight and it definitely felt like a first preview, with some mishaps and especially with a sound design that needs to be fixed. Loads of sound issues at the beginning - part of the reason why the first three numbers didn't really land - mikes going on and off several times throughout the show and the orchestra often drowning the singing. On the whole it's a solid and handsome production, and will only get better with time. Harry HP shows his longer history with the show by delivering the most fully-rounded performance, but Amara Okereke follows him very closely and she'll be pitch-perfect by opening night.

Vanessa Redgrave is clearly very loved but no one will rank this among her best performances. Very good supporting cast with strong performances by Malcolm Sinclair (Higgings) & Maureen Beattie (Mrs Pearce), and Tom Ping had a juicy moment as Higgings' butler. I did like Stephen K. Amos and thought that the reason why I'm Getting Married in the Morning didn't quite work is because it was under-directed and lacked a vision - the reprise was much sharper and got a bigger round of applause. I don't know how one of the male leads was cast tho, he was consistently off-key and his song was clearly out of his range.

It is a long show - it ran for something like 190 minutes tonight - and it will get tighter during previews, although there are certain weaknesses in the book (and particularly act 2) that no director can really fix. The finale is the same they used on Broadway, which is not necessarily brilliant but still an improvement on the original. I thought the level of energy both in the cast and the audience tended to fluctuate, and the latter didn't seem really on board until "Just You Wait". Some of the songs got only polite applause, while others got a much warmer reception. It's a very enjoyable - if a little too long - evening, and I suspect that the reviews will be mostly 3 to 4 stars, rather than 4 to 5.

Oh yeah, whatever he was doing on that table was clearly not working.

(and Sinclair plays Pickering, not Higgins as I miswrote in my previous post)