“MY FAIR LADY”

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29713, 5 January 1962, Page 8

“MY FAIR LADY”

2000 Letters For Tickets

The first applicants for tickets to the Christchurch season of the musical, “My Fair Lady,” should receive them in this morning’s mail. Seven secretaries at the box office are working through more than 2000 letters which have been received since the postal reservations were first advertised 10 days ago. The show will open at the Theatre Royal on February 8 after the 22-week Wellington season ends on January 27.

As the musical will not appear elsewhere in the South Island the producers, J. C Williamson Theatres, are promoting the show widely and.arrangements are in hand for long-distance transport to bring parties from as far as Invercargill People will come by railcar and bus from Dunedin and Invercargill, which is regarded by Williamsons as one of the two best smaller centres for theatre business The other is Palmerston North. Another party will come by air from Central Otago. Williamsons are not undertaking arrangements to bring people to the theatre from towns nearer to hand. They have found in the North Island that local organisations and agents promote their own visits. There will be three or four days of rehearsal for the cast before the show resumes in Christchurch. Later this month technical staff will come from Australia to prepare the theatre, though preliminary work has already been done on stage lighting The revolving stage which was used in Auckland will be set up here. As part of the preparations the Theatre Royal is also getting a new coat of paint.