My Fair Lady (1981)

Music by Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Directed by Patrick Garland
Cast: Rex Harrison, Jack Gwillim, Cathleen Nesbitt, Milo O'Shea, Nancy Ringham, Nicholas Wyman, Eric Alderfer, Richard Ammon

In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. The noted phonetician Professor Henry Higgins encounters Eliza at Covent Garden and laments the vulgarity of her dialect ("Why Can't the English? Higgins also meets Colonel Pickering, another linguist, and invites him to stay as his houseguest.

Theater

Gershwin Theatre · Broadway

Closed

November 29, 1981