My Fair Lady (1993)

Music by Frederick Loewe
Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Directed by Howard Davies
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Melissa Errico, Glynis Bell, Edwardyne Cowan, Laurie Crochet, Alexander deJong, Sue Delano, Rebecca Downing

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

August Wilson Theatre · Broadway

Closed

May 1, 1994