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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 the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw 's 1913 play Pygmalion , 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 ...
Professional ratings. The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits is the fifteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in September 1964 by Columbia Records, [3] one month before the premiere of the film version of My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn. [4]
Eliza Doolittle. Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle on the set of the 1964 movie musical My Fair Lady. Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw 's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady . Eliza (from Lisson Grove, London) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor ...
Lyricist (s) Alan Jay Lerner. " Get Me to the Church on Time " is a song composed by Frederick Loewe, with lyrics written by Alan Jay Lerner for the 1956 musical My Fair Lady, where it was introduced by Stanley Holloway . It is sung by the cockney character Alfred P. Doolittle, the father of one of the show's two main characters, Eliza Doolittle.
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.
Shelly Manne & his Friends* (*André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar): modern jazz performances of songs from My Fair Lady, as the full name appeared on the 12-inch LP jacket (Contemporary Records C3527), was begun when drummer Shelly Manne, pianist André Previn, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions ...
This is a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M–Z alphabetic range. (See also List of notable musical theatre productions , List of operettas , List of Bollywood films , List of rock musicals .)