Shows · My Fair Lady · Mark Hellinger Theatre, 1956
My Fair Lady, 1956
Opened March 15, 1956
Closed September 29, 1962
2,717 performances
Original
Broadway
6 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1950s, this had the 1st longest run.
Other stagings of My Fair Lady 5 more
Who was in it122 named
Philippa Bevans
Thatcher Clarke
Melisande Congdon
Cathy Conklin
Margaret Cuddy
Pat Diamond
Gordon Dilworth
Pat Drylie
David Evans
Gordon Ewing
Lola Fisher
Rosemary Gaines
Maribel Hammer
Carl Jeffrey
Glenn Kezer
William Krach
Vera Lee
Nancy Lynch
Rod Mclennan
James Morris
Barton Mumaw
Gene Nettles
Colleen O Connor
Olive Reeves Smith
Viola Roache
Joe Rocco
Fernando Schaffenburg
Muriel Shaw
Patti Spangler
Herb Surface
David Thomas
Gloria van Dorpe
James White
Judith Williams
Pamela Charles
Margot Moser
Reginald Denny
Helen Ahola
Christian Alderson
Michael Allinson
Lynn Barrett
Gretl Bauer
Lindsey Bergen
Maxine Berke
Mary Sue Berry
Leta Bonynge
Leo Britt
Margaret Broderson
Regina Burger
Ann Casey
Diana Chase
Hilda Clarke
Joan Cory
Robin Craven
Joan Darby
Bill Diehl
Joan Diehl
Lee Dougherty
Christopher Edwards
Susan Fellows
Bramwell Fletcher
Janet Gaylord
Katia Geleznova
Don Grilley
Kim Hayward
Tom Hellmore
Ray Hyson
John H Jones
Robert Karl
Lawrence Keith
Kay Kendall
James Kenny
Dieter Klos
Ronnie Lee
David Lober
Jean Maggio
Iva March
Margery Maude
Svetlana Mclee
Linda Mcnaughton
Kiki Minor
Dale Moreda
Edward Mulhare
Priscilla Mullins
Glenn Olson
Paul Olson
Robert Price
Ronald Radd
Charlotte Ray
Bill Reilly
Dan Resin
Ronald Rosanoff
Bentley Roton
Dorothy Scott
Karen Shepard
Barbara Siman
Guy Spaull
Robert St Clair
Tom Vaughan
Regina Wallace
Marc West
Beverly Weston
Harry Woolever
Joyce Worsley
Creative team
- Director
- Moss Hart
- Choreographer
- Hanya Holm
- Producer
- Herman Levin
Tony Awards 6 from 9 nominations
Recordings 5 released while this run was on
41 more exist for other runs of this show: see My Fair Lady for all of them.
Around this production
Rex Harrison insisted on singing live with the orchestra rather than pre-recording, because his speak-singing style was never exactly the same twice. This drove the sound engineers mad.
My Fair Lady. Stanley Holloway, with cronies Gordon Dilworth and Rod McLennon, singing “With A Little Bit of Luck.” (Friedman-Abeles) My Fair Lady. Robert Coote, Julie Andrews, and Rex Harrison in “The Rain in Spain” number. (Friedman-Abeles)
Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 165“A fortune wouldn’t reward you for the thrill of being there the night ‘My Fair Lady’ opened. Or many others—too many to mention—but there are the eight clinkers you have to sit through before you finally come up with ‘Death of a Salesman’ or ‘A Man for All Seasons.’ ”
Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 366Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.