Shows · My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
Opened 1956
2,717 performances
Musical, Golden Age
Tony Award for Best Musical, 1957
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.
"Lerner and Loewe’s masterpiece broke the OKLAHOMA! [Rod- gers: March 31, 1943] long-run record at a time when six-year r": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Frederick Loewe
- Lyrics
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Book
- Alan Jay Lerner
Productions6 productions: 5 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Songs12 songs
I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, The Rain in Spain, Why Can’t the English?, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, I’m an Ordinary Man, Show Me, Get Me to the Church on Time, A Hymn to Him, Without You, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Recordings 46 recordings
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. |
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.