My Fair Lady
Shows · My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is the original studio cast recording of the 1956 Broadway musical of the same name, released by Columbia Records. The musical is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner, and introduced songs like "I Could Have Danced All Night", "The Rain in Spain" and "On the Street Where You Live" to a global audience.
- Opened
- 1956
- Performances
- 2,717
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 1957.
Productions6 on Broadway
| 1956 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Original. March 15, 1956 · Moss Hart | 2,717 performances · 6 Tony wins |
| 1958 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1976 | St James Theatre Revival. March 25, 1976 · Jerry Adler | 377 performances |
| 1981 | Uris Theatre Revival. August 18, 1981 · Patrick Garland | 119 performances |
| 1993 | Virginia Theatre Revival. December 9, 1993 · Alan Jay Lerner | 165 performances |
| 2018 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. April 19, 2018 · Bartlett Sher | 553 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 46 albums held
Licensing 3 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| US | Music Theatre International My Fair Lady matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor Another house is also on record for this work. |
Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.
40 passages naming My Fair Lady, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
During the 1958-1959 season, it was possible to see such major attractions as The Music Man for $2.50 and My Fair Lady for $2.30. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p13
The next musical treatment of a Shaw play, My Fair Lady , came along 47 years later. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p27
After trying out under the title Away We Go!, the show was renamed Oklahoma! for its Broadway engagement at the St. James Theatre (formerly Erlanger’s). It remained there five years nine months, thereby setting a long-run record for musicals that it held until overtaken by My Fair Lady 15 years later. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p120
Rex Harrison (who played Higgins), Julie Andrews (who won the part of Eliza after Mary Martin had turned it down), and Stanley Holloway (as Eliza’s roistering father, Alfred P. Doolittle) all became forever identified with their roles in My Fair Lady which, for over nine years, was the longest running musical in Broadw… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p164
Lerner and Loewe’s first Broadway undertaking following their spectacular success, My Fair Lady, was based on T.H. White’s retelling of the Arthurian legend, The Once and Future King. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p217
Most shows were lighhearted in nature, and it’s notable the critics often used such words as carnival, jubilee, fandango, hoedown, haymaker, and festival to describe not just a particular song or dance sequence but also to characterize their take-away, overall impressions of the musicals they reviewed. But if fun was t… book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p2
Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.