Claire Danes will make her Broadway debut as Eliza Doolittle in a new production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. David Grindley is directing the play, which is being produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion centres on Professor Henry Higgins - Tony winner Jefferson Mays already has been cast in the role - who comes across a poor and uneducated Cockney girl named Eliza.
He makes a bet that he can take her from the gutters of London and pass her off as a society lady simply by teaching her the right dialect in which to speak, but he discovers that this task is complicated by human emotions.
Shaw's famous play inspired the award-winning musical My Fair Lady, written and composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
It was adapted into a 1964 screen musical directed by George Cukor and starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.
The movie won eight Oscars, including the prize for best picture. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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