September 29
MY FAIR LADY DAY
My Fair Lady closed on this day in 1962
after a run of 6½ years. At the time, the show
held the Broadway record for longest-running musical of all time. 3,750,000 people watched
the wonderful show and heard tunes like Wouldn’t it Be Loverly, Show Me,
Get Me to the Church on Time, I’m an Ordinary Man, I’ve Grown Accustomed
to Her Face and the Vic Damone/Robert Goulet standard, On the Street Where You
Live.
The team of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe turned George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, into a colorful, musical production. They gave a new life to the rough-around-the-edges, cockney, flower girl; the subject of a bet between Professor Higgins (Just You Wait, ’Enry ’Iggins) and a colleague. The Professor bet that he could turn Eliza Doolittle into a proper lady (The Rain in Spain). With a Little Bit of Luck he did it. Eliza, looking and acting very much like a princess, sang I Could Have Danced All Night. After its Broadway success, My Fair Lady was made into a motion picture (1964) and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. |
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