Replacing grey with a colour

I am working on an image with a dark grey area that I wish to replace with a somewhat different colour. I have tried using the color replacement tool, but — presumably because grey is a non-colour — it does not seem to work. Can anyone suggest a way of making it work? I should be most grateful.

Christoph, I did try it. I found that I could make changes to the area I am interested in, but only by making a very accurate mask around it, because if I only make a rough mask (unlike the color replacement mtool when working on an area that is not grey but coloured) the change is not confined to the area I want to change, but affects any other parts of the image within the rough mask that have neutral tones within them.
I had previously tried just making a duplicate layer, carefully selecting the area I want to change with the lasso tool and then using Image > adjustments > brightness; the difficulty being to make an accurate-enough selection. Using the selective colour adjustment layer, as you suggest, gives one more colour options, but still demands that accurate initial selection-process. The beauty of the color replacement tool is that (except, obviously, in the case of black or grey areas) it makes that selection-process unnecessary.
For the record, my image is of a person in front of a light background photographed from some distance away with flash during a ceremony. The flash has cast a very heavy shadow of the person's face onto the screen, which I want to lighten so as not to distract from the face. I attach a JPEG of the picture, much reduced in file-size to speed up transmssion, to illustrate this.
Thanks again though, Christoph, for pointing me in the direction of the selective color layer.

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