My Fair Lady
by Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lernerplay· published 1986
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My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London production. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions.
Adaptations (1)
My Fair Lady was adapted into a 1964 film.
My Fair Lady1964 · film · 170 min · dir. George Cukor · IMDb ↗A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
