My Fair Lady

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

Like Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady," it must be transformed from basic to extraordinary with a little of this and a little of that—berries, syrups, coconut, toasted chopped nuts, whatever you like.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023

Taking over the role from Julie Andrews, she shone as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on New York's Broadway in 1958.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2021

Robert runs through a fine-dining etiquette lesson, which resembles scenes from the film My Fair Lady stitched together.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2021

She moved to New York and began a career on Broadway at 19, and she starred in the musical My Fair Lady.

From Fox News • Oct. 1, 2020

Some schoolchildren are singing a song from My Fair Lady, and my hand itches to turn up the volume.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan