My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady
Original Broadway Poster by Al Hirschfeld
Music	Frederick Loewe
Lyrics	Alan Jay Lerner
Book	Alan Jay Lerner
Basis	Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Productions	1956 Broadway 1957 US tour 1958 West End 1976 Broadway 1978 UK tour 1979 West End 1980 US tour 1981 Broadway 1993 US tour 1993 Broadway 2001 West End 2005 UK tour 2007 US tour 2018 Broadway 2019 US tour 2022 West End
Awards	1957 Tony Award for Best Musical 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion, 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. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her.

The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. 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. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews starred in both productions. Many revivals have followed, and the 1964 film version won the Academy Award for Best Picture.