My Fair Lady
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About the show
- Written by: Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe
- Premiered: 1956
- Categories: 1950s, Comedy, Romance, Social Class, Two Act
- Setting: Early 20th Century, England, London
My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.
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Synopsis
The story is set in Edwardian London and follows the transformation of Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins, a phonetics expert.
Higgins makes a bet that he can teach Eliza to speak like a proper lady and thus be accepted in high society.
The musical explores themes of social class, gender, and transformation, and features classic songs such as The Rain in Spain and I Could Have Danced All Night.
Songs from My Fair Lady
- Overture
- Why Can’t the English?
- Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
- With a Little Bit of Luck
- I’m an Ordinary Man
- Just You Wait
- The Rain in Spain
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- Ascot Gavotte
- On the Street Where You Live
- You Did It
- Show Me
- Get Me to the Church on Time
- A Hymn to Him
- Without You
- I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face