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My Fair Lady

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  1. An American musical comedy of 1956, with words by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. My Fair Lady is based on the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, about a professor in London who teaches a low-born flower girl how to speak and act like the nobility. The songs “On the Street Where You Live” and “I Could Have Danced All Night” come from My Fair Lady.


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Holland had also been in the audience for My Fair Lady at the same venue in 2024.

From BBC

Ms Montgomery was starring as Eliza Doolittle in a school production of My Fair Lady.

From BBC

In my senior year I was Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.”

From The Wall Street Journal

She transported audiences to Edwardian London with a cheeky medley of songs from My Fair Lady, and scaled the heights with her rendition of Vilja Song – the nostalgic showpiece of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.

From BBC

He stage managed the original 1956 production of My Fair Lady, starring the then-20-year-old Julie Andrews, and 1969's Coco, in which Kathryn Hepburn played the founder of fashion house Chanel.

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