Every day is opening night.

RAÚL ESPARZA AND MORE JOIN THEATRE ASPEN’S “MY FAIR LADY” IN CONCERT ON JULY 15

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Toni Case
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Jessica Moore
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

FOUR-TIME TONY AWARD® NOMINEE
RAÚL ESPARZA
SHULER HENSLEY
AND
ANNE L. NATHAN
JOIN
JULIE BENKO
IN
“MY FAIR LADY” IN CONCERT
IN A COLLABORATION WITH THEATRE ASPEN
AND THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL
ON TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2025

To download cast headshots, click here.

Aspen, CO (May 22, 2025) – Joining the previously announced Julie Benko, The Aspen Music Festival and School (Alan Fletcher, President and CEO) and Theatre Aspen (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) are proud to announce four-time Tony Award® nominee Raúl Esparza, Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley and Anne L. Nathan will join the company of Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady in Concert on Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30 PM in the Michael Klein Music Tent.

Marking their sixth annual co-production, this one-night only performance directed by Maggie Burrows and conducted by Andy Einhorn stars Julie Benko as ‘Eliza Dolittle,’ Raúl Esparza (Company) as ‘Professor Henry Higgins,’ Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma!, The Music Man) as ‘Alfred P. Doolittle,’ and Anne L. Nathan (Thoroughly Modern Millie), returning to Theatre Aspen for a second concert, as ‘Mrs. Pearce.’

Shuler Hensley, returning to Theatre Aspen after last year’s successful Fiddler on the Roof in Concert, said, “I’m so excited to be singing again at the tent! Aspen has a special place in my heart as a singer and performer, from singing opera at the Wheeler Opera House, meeting John Denver as a child there, and of course being able to sing as ‘Tevye’ in concert last year with one of the finest student orchestras in the world. I’m ready and excited to make more memories with this amazing piece of theatre!”

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).

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.

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

To purchase tickets, please visit https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/buy-tickets/.

ABOUT THEATRE ASPEN

Theatre 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.

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