Bay Street's Season Finale Is 'My Fair Lady’

“My Fair Lady,” the iconic Lerner and Loewe musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” will open a three-and-a-half-week run at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Tuesday. The production is directed by Michael Arden, a Tony Award nominee and Outer Critics Circle Award-winner for Best Director of a Musical for the Broadway revival of “Spring Awakening.”

The story of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower-seller who takes speech lessons from Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, ran for 2,717 performances on Broadway between its opening in 1956 and 1962, a record at the time. The London production, which, like the Broadway one, starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, ran almost as long.

Mr. Arden’s production will feature two pianos and 15 actors, who, according to the theater, “will bring the classic story to life in ways you’ve never seen before.” Paul Alexander Nolan will play Professor Higgins, and Kelli Barrett will struggle with her enunciation as Eliza. Other featured actors are Howard McGillin, Carole Shelley, Karen Murphy, John O’Creagh, Bobby Conte Thornton, and Ryan Fitzgerald.

Performances will take place Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays at 7 p.m.; Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8 p.m., with 2 p.m. matinees on Aug. 10, 14, 17, 21, 24, and 28. A limited number of pay-what-you-can tickets will be available for Tuesday’s performance after 11 a.m. that day, at the box office only.