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My Fair Lady

Opening date
February 4, 1956
Comments
Musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady.

The first performance of the show was as part of a pre-Broadway tryout run at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. It opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, on March 15, 1956. It is one of Broadway's most successful shows, running for 2,717 performances.

The original cast recording was recorded on March 25, 1956.

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Performances

Title Performer Written by Info
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (10 artists)
Originally by Rex Harrison REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (129 artists)
Originally by Stanley Holloway, Gordon Dilworth, Rod McLennan REC,REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (253 artists)
Originally by Julie Andrews, Philippa Bevans REC,REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (19 artists)
Originally by Rex Harrison REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (383 artists)
Originally by Rex Harrison REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (16 artists)
Originally by Julie Andrews REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (407 artists)
Originally by John Michael King REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (92 artists)
Originally by Julie Andrews, John Michael King REC
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (52 artists)
Originally by Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Robert Coote REC,REL
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (67 artists)
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (157 artists)
Originally by Julie Andrews REL
 PRF Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe Covered by (11 artists)
Originally by Rex Harrison, Robert Coote, Philippa Bevans REC,REL