Julie Andrews will return to the musical production that launched her career when she directs "My Fair Lady" at the Sydney Opera House in 2016.
The Oscar-winning actress starred in the original 1956 Broadway production and she was "thrilled to have been asked" to direct, according to BBC News. She will head to Australia this November to start casting and the show will premiere next August.
"I look forward to... beginning the process of bringing this great musical to life once again," Andrews told BBC News.
The musical revival will help celebrate Opera Australia's 60th birthday. The British actress will work with Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli and the Opera's director Lyndon Terrancini and producer John Frost.
"To think that Broadway's original Eliza Doolittle, Julie Andrews, will direct our new production at the Sydney Opera House 60 years later will, I'm sure, excite both Australian and international audience," Frost told BBC News.
"My Fair Lady" is based on the George Bernard Shaw novel, "Pygmalion." Alan Jay Lerner wrote the musical's book and lyrics while Frederick Loewe wrote the music. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, to become a more proper lady.
