Lincoln Center Theater has announced an online ticket lottery for its new production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady, beginning with the musical's first preview Thursday, March 15 at 8pm at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). Opening night for My Fair Lady, considered the most beloved musical of all time, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, directed by Bartlett Sher, is Thursday, April 19.

A limited number of tickets priced at $42 will be sold each day to the winners of the lottery. Entries will be accepted online (http://myfairladylottery.com/) and will allow entry the day of the performance.

Winners will be chosen at random and will be notified by email and text message by 9:05 AM for matinees and 2:05 PM for evening performances on the day of the performance. Limit one entry per person and two tickets per winner.

Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady features a cast of 37 headed by Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Norbert Leo Butz, Diana Rigg, Allan Corduner, Jordan Donica, Linda Mugleston, and Manu Narayan. Harry Hadden-Paton and Diana Rigg are appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association.

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, premiered on Broadway on March 15, 1956. The legendary original production won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical and ran for 2,717 performances making it, at the time, the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Boasting a score that contains such now-classic songs as "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Get Me to the Church on Time," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "On the Street Where You Live," "The Rain in Spain," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," My Fair Lady was hailed by The New York Times as "one of the best musicals of the century," by the Christian Science Monitor as "a work of theatre magic," and by the NY Herald Tribune as "a miraculous musical."

Regularly priced tickets ranging from $87-$187 are available at the Vivian Beaumont Theater box office, by calling Telecharge at (212) 239-6200, online at telecharge.com or by visiting http://myfairladybway.com/.

The Jerome L. Greene Foundation is the Lead Sponsor of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady. Generous support for LCT's production is also provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Florence Kaufman, The New York Community Trust-Mary P. Oenslager Foundation Fund, and The Ted and Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Lincoln Center Theater is producing Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady in association with Nederlander Presentations, Inc.

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