Though Mrs Pearce, the housekeeper, insists that Eliza go to bed, she declares she is too excited to sleep (' I Could Have Danced All Night').įor her first public tryout, Higgins takes Eliza to his mother's box at Ascot Racecourse ('Ascot Gavotte'). Just as Higgins is about to give up on her, Eliza suddenly recites one of her diction exercises in perfect upper-class style (' The Rain in Spain'). Higgins's servants lament the stressful atmosphere ('The Servants' Chorus'). Frustrated, she dreams of different ways to kill him ('Just You Wait'). Eliza endures Higgins's tyrannical speech tutoring. Though Higgins sees himself as a kindhearted man who merely cannot get along with women ('I'm an Ordinary Man'), to others he appears self-absorbed and misogynistic. Higgins wagers Pickering that, within six months, by teaching Eliza to speak properly, he will enable her to pass for a proper lady.Įliza becomes part of Higgins's household. Soon after, Eliza comes to Higgins's house, seeking elocution lessons so that she can get a job as an assistant in a florist's shop. Doolittle, stops by the next morning searching for money for a drink (' With a Little Bit of Luck'). Eliza and her friends wonder what it would be like to live a comfortable life (' Wouldn't It Be Loverly?').Įliza's father, Alfred P. Higgins also meets Colonel Pickering, another linguist, and invites him to stay as his houseguest. The noted phonetician Professor Henry Higgins encounters Eliza at Covent Garden and laments the vulgarity of her dialect ('Why Can't the English?'). In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. 5.7.2 2007 New York Philharmonic concert and US tour.5.6 2018 Broadway and 2022 London revival.5.5 2001 London revival 2003 Hollywood Bowl production.2 Characters and original Broadway cast.Many revivals have followed, and the 1964 film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London production. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins falls in love with her. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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