JULIE BENKO TO STAR IN “MY FAIR LADY” IN CONCERT AT THEATRE ASPEN
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
THEATRE ASPEN
AND
THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL
TO PRESENT
LERNER AND LOEWE’S
“MY FAIR LADY” IN CONCERT
IN THE MICHAEL KLEIN MUSIC TENT ON
TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2025
DIRECTED BY
MAGGIE BURROWS
STARRING
JULIE BENKO
CONDUCTED BY
ANDY EINHORN
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON
TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 AT 12PM MT
Aspen, CO (April 16, 2025) – The Aspen Music Festival and School (Alan Fletcher, President and CEO) and Theatre Aspen (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) announced today their sixth annual co-production: the 6-time Tony Award®-winning Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady in Concert, for a one-night only performance directed by Maggie Burrows, starring Julie Benko as ‘Eliza Dolittle,’ and conducted by Andy Einhorn on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 PM in the Michael Klein Music Tent.
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture “Pygmalion,” My Fair Lady in Concert builds upon the success of Fiddler on the Roof in Concert (2024), Master Class (2023), The Sound of Music in Concert (2022), The Sweetest Sounds: The Music of Richard Rodgers (2021), and South Pacific in Concert (2019).
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“Working with AMFS, and collaborating on this wonderful Aspen tradition, is always a treat. And a chance to hear My Fair Lady with the magnificent Festival Orchestra and a raft of theatre stars is a rare opportunity indeed,” stated Bernstein.
Broadway’s Julie Benko, who skyrocketed to fame in Funny Girl, will star as Eliza Doolittle. Maggie Burrows makes her directorial debut in Aspen; she previously directed the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady in 2018. Andy Einhorn returns to the AMFS stage for his fifth season to conduct the Aspen Music Festival and School’s orchestra.
“We are pleased to continue our immensely popular partnership with Theatre Aspen, bringing My Fair Lady to life this summer. This beloved musical is a classic of Broadway’s Golden Age. Our collaboration is not only wonderful for Aspen’s community cultural life but also provides our students with a unique opportunity to perform alongside top Broadway talent” stated Alan Fletcher, President & CEO of The Aspen Music Festival and School.
Final casting will be announced shortly.
My Fair Lady in Concert is the beloved classic with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. This timeless tale follows Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower seller, as she transforms into a refined lady under the tutelage of the sharp-tongued Professor Henry Higgins. Featuring iconic songs like “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “On the Street Where You Live,” this concert version brings the sweeping romance and wit of My Fair Lady to life with a stunning cast and orchestra led by Broadway conductor Andy Einhorn. Don’t miss this enchanting evening of musical theater!
Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supported by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Tickets go on sale Wednesday, April 16th at 12 PM MT via the Aspen Music Festival and School’s box office. To purchase, please visit https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/buy-tickets/.
ABOUT THEATRE ASPEN
Aspen’s 42nd Summer Season will run from June 12 – August 23 and will include three mainstage productions; Pulitzer Prize winner Driving Miss Daisy, the ninth-longest running Broadway musical MAMMA MIA! and the Tony Award-winning Million Dollar Quartet: followed by the 6th annual Solo Flights the organization’s developmental one-person show festival.
Theatre Aspen continues to rekindle a sense of discovery in audiences who live in and visit the Roaring Fork Valley by producing big theatre in a small space with intimate storytelling. Each season, Theatre Aspen promises to bring world-class theatre dramatically closer, with innovative and imaginative productions of both plays and musicals. These productions are complemented by an assortment of community events, including cabarets, educational programs and performances, collaborations with other Aspen arts organizations, and new works presentations. Theatre Aspen also boasts an impressive Apprentice Program, one of the largest in the country, devoted to training the next generation of theatrical artists and administrators. For more information on Theatre Aspen, visit TheatreAspen.org or call (970) 925-9313.
ABOUT THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL
The AMFS is the United States’ premier classical music center for performance and education, presenting nearly 300 musical events during its eight-week summer season in Aspen. Under the leadership of President and CEO Alan Fletcher and Music Director Robert Spano, the organization draws top classical musicians from around the world for a rich combination of performances of orchestral works, opera, chamber music, recitals, contemporary music, works by new or previously unrecognized voices, popular genres, family events, and talks, competitions, and classes.
More than 450 music students from 40 U.S. states and 40 countries come each summer to play in four orchestras, sing, conduct, compose and study with more than 100 artist-faculty members who come from the orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, the Metropolitan Orchestra, and the leading conservatories and music schools like The Juilliard School, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and The Colburn School. Students represent the field’s best talent; many have already begun their professional careers, and others are on the cusp.
Renowned alumni include violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Robert McDuffie; pianists Joyce Yang, Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Yuja Wang, and Wu Han; conductors Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Leonard Slatkin and Joshua Weilerstein; composers William Bolcom, Philip Glass, David Lang, Augusta Read Thomas, Bright Sheng and Joan Tower; singers Isabel Leonard, Jamie Barton, Sasha Cooke, Danielle de Niese, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Tamara Wilson; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; guitarist Sharon Isbin; bassist Edgar Meyer; and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
BIOGRAPHIES
JULIE BENKO joined the annals of theatrical legend and lore for her sensational understudy-to-star trajectory as Fanny Brice in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl, for which she received Theatre World’s Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theatre, was named the 2022 “Breakout Star for Theater” by The New York Times, one of “10 Broadway Stars to Watch for 2023” by Variety, and honored as one of “40 Under 40” for Crain’s New York Business, among other accolades. Other Broadway credits include Harmony (Ruth), Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Misérables. She has starred in numerous off-Broadway and regional productions, including Jane Eyre, Once (Wilde Award), The Fantasticks (BroadwayWorld Nomination), Our Town, Rags (SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area Awards Nominations), and more. She will make her screen acting debut in the upcoming feature film “Caravan.” Benko has released 3 albums with her pianist-composer spouse, Jason Yeager, and enjoys a vibrant concert career, having headlined sold-out solo shows at venues around the country such as the San Francisco’s Venetian Room and New York’s Café Carlyle, as well as performing as a guest artist with numerous symphonies. Visit her website, www.JulieBenko.com, or follow her on TikTok/Instagram @Jujujuliebee to discover more!
MAGGIE BURROWS is a theater director living in New York City. She received her B.A. from Yale University, where she was a nominee for the Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Maggie is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the inaugural 2018-2019 BOLD Resident Director at Northern Stage, and the recipient of the 2018 Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival. In 2020, in collaboration with the Roald Dahl Story Company, Maggie co-conceived and produced James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends to benefit Partners in Health. Theater credits include Man of God (Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Geffen Playhouse), Legally Blonde (The MUNY), Trayf (Geffen), On Your Feet! (The MUNY), Indecent (Juilliard), Man of God (Geffen), Damsels (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Sound of Music (Northern Stage), Spacebar (Wild Project). Film work includes her short Condolences and a GOTV video for Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote organization. Upcoming: The Janeiad (Old Globe, World Premiere), Zack Zadek’s new musical Satellites and Mark Sonnenblick’s new musical Devotion.
ANDY EINHORN. Broadway: Music Supervisor/Conductor: Gypsy (Audra McDonald), Hello, Dolly! (Bette Midler), Carousel (Renée Fleming), Holiday Inn. Music Director/Conductor: Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Brief Encounter, Sondheim on Sondheim. Music director and conductor for Audra McDonald since 2011 including two albums. Touring: Music Supervisor: Peter Pan, Sound of Music. Regional: George Street Playhouse, PaperMill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. TV: HBO’s “Six by Sondheim,” PBS “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy,” Academy Awards 2019, “Eat Sh*t Bob” for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” starring John Oliver. Faculty: Juilliard, Aspen Music Festival, Brevard Music Festival. Rice University, summa cum laude.
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