Chichester Theatre Trip

Coach pickup, time to spend in Chichester, evening performance, and return coach.
 
You see this creature with her curbstone English, the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days? Well, sir, in six months I could pass her off as a duchess at an Embassy Ball.

Lerner & Loewe’s glorious, evergreen musical My Fair Lady – with an overflowing bouquet of ravishing songs including The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, With a Little Bit of Luck and Wouldn’t It be Loverly – has never before been produced at Chichester. With its sparkling dialogue, brilliant lyrics, witty story and gorgeous costumes, this 20th century masterpiece has been described as the perfect musical.

Cockney Eliza Doolittle scrapes a living selling flowers on the streets of London. Her dream of being a lady in a florist’s shop is out of reach unless she can speak ‘proper English’. So when she encounters Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, she seizes the chance to transform her life. 

Higgins blithely takes on a bet to turn the woman he dismisses as a “squashed cabbage leaf” into a high society paragon. But his impulsive wager becomes a journey of discovery for both him and Eliza.

Lerner & Loewe’s multi award-winning musical broke Broadway records when it opened in 1956 and was adapted into the 1964 Oscar-winning film. This brand-new production is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (The Music Man, Shadowlands, Half a Sixpence) with set and costumes by Peter McKintosh (Top Hat, South Pacific, Shadowlands) and choreography by Stephen Mear (Gypsy, Mack & Mabel, Kiss Me Kate).

With a few hours of free time before the show starts, we have the opportunity to enjoy the pedestrianised shopping streets of Chichester, its cathedral, or just sit down and relax with a drink and a bite to eat. It always makes for a very enjoyable trip.

Having already filled two coaches for this year’s production, we have a second opportunity to see this summer blockbuster of a show. Lauded by The Telegraph, Daily Mail, and WhatsOnStage with 5* reviews, remaining tickets are likely to disappear fast at the theatre, so confirm your places as soon as you can to avoid missing out.