My Fair Lady: Overview

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My Fair Lady

To mark the seventieth anniversary of the New York premiere KEVIN COXHEAD documents the original Broadway, West End and record-breaking J.C. Williamson Australian production of the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe musical My Fair Lady (adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion), illustrated with numerous on-stage and behind-the-scenes photos; plus the 1964 movie version and the various available cast recordings of the score.

 

Productions

  • My Fair Lady: Broadway

    My Fair Lady: Broadway

    The most anticipated Broadway musical at the time. Attempts at obtaining the rights, getting George Bernard Shaw's permission to turn his highly successful play, Pygmalion, into a stage musical, the task of actually turning his play into a musical and having it turned down by the best writers of...

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  • Original London Production and Movie

    Original London Production and Movie

    Higgin's study - London production (Elisabeth Kumm collection) My Fair Lady opened at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on April 30, 1959, playing for 2,281 performances, running for over six years, beaten only by the British musical, Salad Days, which clocked up 2,283 performances, just two more than...

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  • Original Australian Production

    Original Australian Production

    My Fair Lady (Original Australian Production) With the Show-curtain down, Musical Director Gabriel Joffe on the conductor's podium, with baton poised to lead the J. C. Williamson Orchestra into "God, Save the Queen", an announcement was made to the audience. "Ladies and Gentlemen. Due to the...

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Additional Info

  • My Fair Lady Recordings

    1956 Original Broadway Cast. Franz Allers conducting the Mark Hellinger Theatre My Fair Lady Orchestra. Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway, Robert Coote, John Michael King, Philipa Bevans. The recording was made just two weeks after the show's opening, March 1956. Audio from the above...

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