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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.
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
As discussed in Lerner's 1978 book, The Street Where I Live, Frederick Loewe, who initially had no interest in the project, agreed to write music, with the understanding that if things went badly, it would be his last score. [2] After the tremendous success of My Fair Lady, expectations were high for a new Lerner and Loewe musical. However, the ...
"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, [1] published in 1956. The song is sung by the musical's heroine, Eliza Doolittle , expressing her exhilaration and excitement after an impromptu dance with her tutor, Henry Higgins, in the small hours of ...
In his preface to "Pygmalion," the funny, wickedly insightful play from 1913, that inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved musical "My Fair Lady," Shaw made the claim that his work ...
Lerner and Loewe, c. 1962 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. [1] Spanning three decades and nine musicals from 1942 to 1960 and again from 1970 to 1972, the pair are known for being behind the creation of critical on stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi.
The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records, [2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording. [2]
"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady. [1] The song is sung by Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life.