My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw 's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady. The original Broadway and London shows starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.
who wrote the musical score for my fair lady
book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe