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My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)


"My Fair Lady""); and others. Manne himself worked with arranger John Williams to present a different whole-album treatment of the musical in 1964, first issued as "My Fair Lady with the Un-Original Cast", and later reissued as "My Fair Lady Swings". This album was based on arrangements thoroughly worked out in advance, and some of the tunes were sung by Jack Sheldon and Irene Kral. Some of these albums were performed by small combos, others by big bands. Some
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My Fair Lady (film)


Bros. Studio Orchestra conducted by André Previn. Between brackets the singers." With a production budget of $17 million, "My Fair Lady" was the most expensive film shot in the United States up to that time. The film was re-released in 1971 and earned North American rentals of $2 million. It was re-released again in 1994 after a thorough restoration. "My Fair Lady" currently holds a 96% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 50 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10
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The Lyric Stage Company of Boston


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My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)


(1959), all issued on the Contemporary label. "My Fair Lady" itself was redone over the years by other jazz artists, starting very soon after the Manne hit. Billy Taylor and Quincy Jones brought out "My Fair Lady Loves Jazz" in 1957, and this was followed by albums of "My Fair Lady" music by Nat King Cole ("Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady") ; Wild Bill Davis; Dick Hyman with Ruby Braff; Oscar Peterson ("The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays
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My Fair Lady (film)


films are as magical as musicals, and few musicals are as intelligent and lively as "My Fair Lady." It's a classic not because a group of stuffy film experts have labeled it as such, but because it has been, and always will be, a pure joy to experience." "My Fair Lady" won eight Oscars: "My Fair Lady" won three Golden Globe Awards: The film was restored in 1994 by James C. Katz and Robert A. Harris, who had restored "Spartacus" three
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My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast


My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast is an album by drummer Shelly Manne with Jack Sheldon and Irene Kral and musical direction by Johnny Williams, recorded in 1964 and released on the Capitol label. The album, featuring Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's music from the Broadway musical "My Fair Lady", sought to capitalize on Manne's previously successful "My Fair Lady" album and on the contemporaneous film adaptation. The Allmusic review stated: "An interesting but not essential release". "All compositions by
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My Fair Lady


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. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success. It set a record for the longest run of any show on
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Royal Artillery Mounted Band


the Guard', 'Fiddler on the Roof', 'Carousel', 'Patience', and 'My Fair Lady' among others, with further musicals to accompany at the Garrison Theatre, Dortmund, including 'My Fair Lady'. The Orchestra travelled regularly throughout the British Army of the Rhine area, and frequently across European borders, to perform at military bases, embassies, and also for civilian private hires. The orchestral library was almost as extensive as that of the military band. The Mounted Band was the
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My Fair Laddy


"My Fair Laddy" is the twelfth episode of "The Simpsons"' seventeenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 26, 2006. This is the first episode that centers on Groundskeeper Willie. The title and plot are based on the Broadway musical and film "My Fair Lady". When Mrs. Pummelhorst (the school gym teacher) announces that she will be leaving to undergo gender reassignment surgery and will come back as the shop teacher "Mr. Pummelhorst," Coach Krupt,
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My Fair Lady (2016 TV series)


My Fair Lady () is a South Korean television series starring Heo Jung-eun in the title role, with Oh Ji-ho, Park Jin-hee and Oh Yoon-ah, based on the award-winning screenplay by Jun Ho-sung. It aired every Wednesday and Thursday from November 16, 2016 to January 5, 2017 on KBS2 at 22:00 KST. A story about a con-man (Oh Ji-ho) and his daughter (Heo Jung-eun) who suffers from Niemann–Pick
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My Bare Lady


2006. The show's name is a pun that recalls the "Pygmalion"-inspired musical "My Fair Lady" by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, popularized in a film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn. Based on the success of the debut season a second series was launched called "My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business." The series debuted on Fox Reality Channel on Saturday, November 8, 2008 and was divided into eight half-hour episodes. The show placed four adult entertainment stars in the same house for a month
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My Fair Lady (film)


My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical drama film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak "proper" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film stars Audrey Hepburn
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Pygmalion (play)


new sequences he had added for the film script were published in 1941. The scenes he had noted in "Note for Technicians" are added. "Pygmalion" remains Shaw's most popular play. The play's widest audiences know it as the inspiration for the highly romanticized 1956 [[My Fair Lady|musical]] and 1964 film [[My Fair Lady (film)|"My Fair Lady"]]. "Pygmalion" has transcended cultural and language barriers since its first production. The British Museum contains "images of the Polish production
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My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)


My Fair Lady, recorded by "Shelly Manne & His Friends" and released in 1956 by Contemporary Records, is the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical. It was an instant hit and became one of the best-selling jazz albums of its day. Shelly Manne & his Friends* (*André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar): modern jazz performances of songs from My Fair Lady, as the full name appeared on the 12-inch LP jacket (Contemporary Records C3527),
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The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits


The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits is the fifteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in September 1964 by Columbia Records, one month before the premiere of the film version of "My Fair Lady" starring Audrey Hepburn. The album made its first appearance on "Billboard" magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated September 26 of that year and remained on the album chart for 33 weeks, peaking at number five. The album received Gold certification from the
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The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits


26, 2001. "Billboard" magazine wrote, "A sure-fire winner results from the combination of Andy Williams and selections from "My Fair Lady" during the season when the Warner Bros. film treatment of the Broadway hit musical will go into national release. This is further buttressed with a half dozen top tunes from other Broadway shows." Songs from "My Fair Lady": "Begin the Beguine" had its most successful chart performance as an instrumental recording by Artie Shaw & His Orchestra that spent six weeks
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Allan Sherman


nightclub musical show called "My Fairfax Lady", a parody of "My Fair Lady" set in the Jewish section of Los Angeles that was performed at Billy Gray's Band Box. Sherman then wrote his own song parodies of "My Fair Lady", which appeared as a bootleg recording in 1964, and were only officially released in 2005 on "My Son, the Box". Alan Jay Lerner did not approve of having the parody being performed; however, he reluctantly settled to allow the performances of "Fairfax
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My Fair Laddy


a new sign on the inside wall reading "Home Sweet Home." Willie, acting very grateful for the gift, asks to be alone. Lisa understands and promptly exits the shack. Upon her leaving, Willie takes the sign and smashes it on the ground, declaring that he liked his shack "the way it was". The episode's plot is based on "My Fair Lady" and also features parodies of songs from the play such as "Wouldn't It Be Loverly", "The Rain in Spain
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Mad (magazine)


hear it, thus allowing the decision to stand. This precedent-setting 1964 ruling established the rights of parodists and satirists to mimic the meter of popular songs. However, the "Sing Along With "Mad"" songbook was not the magazine's first venture into musical parody. In 1960, "Mad" had published "My Fair Ad-Man", a full advertising-based spoof of the hit Broadway musical "My Fair Lady". In 1959, "If Gilbert & Sullivan wrote "Dick Tracy"
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Filipe La Féria


Ruy de Carvalho. In 2002, he staged the musical "My Fair Lady" ("Linda My Lady"), adapted from Bernard Shaw, giving it a Golden Globe for Best Performance of the Year. La Féria's latest productions have been "The Queen of Ferro Velho", by Garçon Kanin (2004), "A Girl of the Sea of Sophia" by Mello Breyner (2005), "Alice in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll (2005), "The Song of Lisbon" based on
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My Fair Lady (2009 TV series)


My Fair Lady (; lit. "Take Care of the Young Lady" or "Take Care of Agasshi") is a 2009 South Korean television series, starring Yoon Eun-hye, Yoon Sang-hyun, Jung Il-woo and Moon Chae-won. It aired on KBS2 from August 19 to October 8, 2009, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. Kang Hye-na, the only successor of Kang-san Group, is the owner of the ‘Lady Castle’ and lives a
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My Fair Lady


give them to us." For five months Lerner and Loewe wrote, hired technical designers, and made casting decisions. The bank, in the end, granted them the musical rights. Lerner settled on the title "My Fair Lady", relating both to one of Shaw's provisional titles for "Pygmalion", "Fair Eliza", and to the final line of every verse of the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down". Recalling that the Gershwins' 1925 musical "Tell Me More" had been
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London Bridge Is Falling Down


or the remnant of a distinct game. In one version the first two verses have the lyrics: poemWho has stole my watch and chain, Watch and chain, watch and chain; Who has stole my watch and chain, My fair lady? Off to prison you must go, You must go, you must go; Off to prison you must go, My fair lady./poem Similar rhymes can be found across Europe, pre-dating the records in England. These include "Knippelsbro Går Op og Ned" from Denmark,
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Lolita, My Love


Lolita, My Love was an unsuccessful musical by John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner, based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita". It closed in Boston in 1971 while on a tour prior to Broadway. "Lolita, My Love" was initiated by Lerner, the well-known lyricist of "My Fair Lady" and other major hits, who recruited Barry to write the score. Nabokov, who had several times refused to allow adaptations of his novel, stated that "Mr. Lerner is a most talented and excellent
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Victorian china fairing


" and "Champagne Charlie is my name". Others commemorate notable people or buildings such as Ladies of Llangollen (relating to the scandalous affair of Lady Eleanor Butler and Lady Sarah Ponsonby) or "The Model of Laxey" (the Laxey Wheel on the Isle of Mann, the largest metal water wheel in the world). The captions on some fairings are a little more obscure, such as "How's business?" (on one fairing) and "Slack!" (on its partner). These were
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I Saw My Lady Weepe


as a song. Leech-Wilkinson also asserts that it is possible that "I saw my Lady weepe" is in some ways a continuation of the dedication of the "Second Booke" to the Countess of Bedford. However, it seems unlikely given that "I Saw My Lady Weepe" is dedicated to Anthony Holborne. I saw my lady weep, And Sorrow proud to be advanced so, In those fair eyes where all perfections keep. Her face was full of woe, But such a woe believe me as wins
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Robert Russell Bennett


Clear Day You Can See Forever", and "Funny Girl", as well as extended “symphonic picture” settings of "The Sound of Music" and "My Fair Lady". His concert band medleys include those of "Porgy and Bess", "The King and I", "Carousel Waltzes", "Me and Juliet", "Silk Stockings", "My Fair Lady", "Gigi", "The Sound of Music", "Funny Girl", and "Do I Hear
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History of film


more old-fashioned films that produced the studios' biggest successes. Productions like "[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]" (1964), "[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]" (1964) and "[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]" (1965) were among the biggest money-makers of the decade. The growth in independent producers and production companies, and the increase in the power of individual actors also contributed to the decline of
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22nd Golden Globe Awards


The 22nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1964 films, were held on February 8, 1965. "' "Becket" "' "My Fair Lady" "' Peter O'Toole – "Becket" "' Anne Bancroft – "The Pumpkin Eater" "' Rex Harrison – "My Fair Lady" "' Julie Andrews – "Mary Poppins" "' Edmond O'Brien – "Seven Days in May" "' Agnes Moorehead – "Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte" "' George Cukor
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Lerner and Loewe


continuously play until a musical moment appeared that they were both overjoyed with. It wasn't until the tail end of the process with previews looming that Lerner and Loewe finally decided on a name for the musical, Loewe's vote was for "Fanfaroon", Lerner believed that bared too close of a resemblance to "Brigadoon", and he along with the rest of the creative team decided out of all of their options, they disliked "My Fair Lady" the least. The year it opened "My Fair Lady"
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Peter Howard (conductor)


other shows, “Harrigan ’n Hart,” “Barnum,” “How Now, Dow Jones,” “Subways Are for Sleeping,” “I Can Get It for You Wholesale,” “The Sound of Music” and “My Fair Lady.” For “My Fair Lady,” Mr. Howard was assistant to the conductor, Franz Allers, with an unusual assignment. He spent many hours in a hotel room with the British actor and nonsinger Rex Harrison, coaching him to speak resonantly through six songs
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Karin Hübner


; that same year she made her film debut in the title role of Martin Hellberg's production of Lessing's work "Emilia Galotti". Her most famous role was as Eliza Doolittle in the musical play "My Fair Lady". She starred in the German-language premiere of the musical, in 1961, at the Theater des Westens (Theatre of the West) in Berlin. Berlin was then in the depths of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall had just been erected, and "My Fair Lady" was
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Audrey Hepburn


in an era of the exaggerated curve". Hepburn's second film released in 1964 was George Cukor's film adaptation of the stage musical "My Fair Lady", which premiered in October. "Soundstage" wrote that "not since "Gone with the Wind" has a motion picture created such universal excitement as "My Fair Lady"", although Hepburn's casting in the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle was a source of dispute. Julie Andrews, who had originated the role on stage, was not offered
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Rex Harrison


in the musical "My Fair Lady", where he appeared opposite Julie Andrews. Later appearances included Pirandello's "Henry IV", a 1984 appearance at the Haymarket Theatre with Claudette Colbert in Frederick Lonsdale's "Aren't We All?", and one on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre presented by Douglas Urbanski, at the Haymarket in J. M. Barrie's "The Admirable Crichton" with Edward Fox. He returned as Henry Higgins in the revival of "My Fair Lady" directed by Patrick Garland in 1981,
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Rex Harrison


of "My Fair Lady", the style of headware was often named "The Rex Harrison." Seth MacFarlane, creator of the animated series "Family Guy", modelled the voice of the character Stewie Griffin after Harrison, after seeing him in the film adaptation of "My Fair Lady". According to Jonna Mendez, former Chief of Disguise at the CIA, Rex Harrison's aluminium facial props mold was used as a baseline for over-the-head masks that the agency would create and use operationally. The
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Jonathan Pryce


Stigmata" (1999) and, for Comic Relief, the Master in the "Doctor Who" special, "Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death". About this time Pryce sang at the Hollywood Bowl alongside opera singer Lesley Garrett in highlights from "My Fair Lady" and in 1998, he performed in Cameron Mackintosh's gala concert "Hey, Mr Producer!", also as Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady" and reprising his role as the Engineer from "Miss Saigon". During the
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Julie Andrews


to her. In 1956, she appeared on stage in "My Fair Lady" as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews' talent that concurrent with her run in "My Fair Lady" she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, "Cinderella". "Cinderella" was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and had an estimated 107 million viewers. The show was broadcast in colour from CBS Studio 72, at 2248
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Lauren Ambrose


" directed by Bartlett Sher, but the production was indefinitely postponed due to financial concerns. In March 2018 Ambrose started appearing as Eliza Doolittle in a new Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady" directed by Sher, a performance for which she was nominated for the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical and won the 2018 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. In October 2018, Ambrose left the "My Fair Lady" cast to take a role in the thriller series "Servant" produced by
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My Fair Lady


Broadway up to that time. It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and many revivals. "My Fair Lady" has been called "the perfect musical". In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a Cockney flower girl with a thick, unintelligible 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
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Sid Caesar


to midweek." Comedy star Carol Burnett, who later had her own hit TV show, remembers winning tickets to see "My Fair Lady" on Broadway: "I gave the tickets to my roommate because I said, "Fair Lady's" gonna be running for a hundred years, but Sid Caesar is live and I'll never see "that" again." After nearly 10 years as a prime-time star of television comedy with "Your Show of Shows" followed by "Caesar's Hour"
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Yoon Eun-hye


and Park Jin-hee to win the coveted Best Actress award, becoming the youngest actress ever to win the award. Riding the big success of "Coffee Prince" and "Goong", Yoon became one of the highest-paid actresses in the industry. In 2009, Yoon starred in KBS' romantic comedy "My Fair Lady", playing an arrogant, strong-headed heiress of a rich business family. Although "My Fair Lady" was a moderate success, Yoon was harshly criticized for her unnatural speech and
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Pygmalion (mythology)


manners in social situations. This play in turn inspired the film "Pygmalion", as well as the play "My Fair Lady" and the film "My Fair Lady". The film "Lars and the Real Girl" tells the story of a man who designs a doll and treats her as a real person in order to reconnect with the rest of the world. Although she never comes to life, he believes she is real, and in doing so develops more connections to his community. When he no longer
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Tottenham Court Road


classic movie "Withnail and I". Mrs. Eysnford-Hill, Freddy's mother, lives in Tottenham Court Road, according to Professor Henry Higgins ("My Fair Lady"). Also it is where one person becomes victim to the werewolf's rampage in "An American Werewolf In London". In the Lerner-Loewe musical "My Fair Lady", Tottenham Court Road is mentioned as the place where Eliza Doolittle sells her flowers. Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" references the area in the song "
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The Princess Diaries (film)


must ... remake the gawky girl into a vision of regal grace" in "true Henry Higgins fashion", a character from "My Fair Lady". "The Seattle Times" film critic Moira Macdonald joked that Andrews "play[s] Henry Higgins to young Anne Hathaway's Eliza". Also writing for "The Washington Post", Michael O'Sullivan similarly observed that "Most of the comedy mileage comes from the "My Fair Lady" scenario, in which Mia's initially frumpy appearance and klutzy manner are eliminated through a regime
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Gabriel Pascal


surfacing from a coma, Pascal's last words were, "I see". Within two years of his death, the musical "My Fair Lady", which Pascal had managed to retain an option on by borrowing $7,000 from a Baba follower named Margaret Scott, opened on Broadway. Soon after his death, his estate, which had been worth nothing at his death, increased to an estimated value of $2,000,000, as the movie rights for "My Fair Lady" (which was filmed in 1964) were
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Recurring features in Mad (magazine)


/ That will make them think they're / Seeing something great!"), as well as Warner Brothers' decision to replace Andrews with Audrey Hepburn in its movie adaptation of "My Fair Lady". Andrews had been a great success as Eliza Doolittle in the original Broadway production, but she was passed over for the film role. Despite the high-profile snub, Andrews made an Oscar-winning debut in "Mary Poppins" – released four months before "My Fair Lady" – and solidifying her big screen
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My Fair Lady


titled "My Fair Lady" in its out-of-town tryout, and also had a musical number under that title, Lerner made a courtesy call to Ira Gershwin, alerting him to the use of the title for the Lerner and Loewe musical. Noël Coward was the first to be offered the role of Henry Higgins, but he turned it down, suggesting the producers cast Rex Harrison instead. After much deliberation, Harrison agreed to accept the part. Mary Martin was an early choice for the role of Eliza Doolittle
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My Fair Lady


the first preview Rex Harrison, who was unaccustomed to singing in front of a live orchestra, "announced that under no circumstances would he go on that night...with those thirty-two interlopers in the pit". He locked himself in his dressing room and came out little more than an hour before curtain time. The whole company had been dismissed but were recalled, and opening night was a success. "My Fair Lady" then played for four weeks at the Erlanger Theatre in Philadelphia, beginning on February 15,
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My Fair Lady


, "Opening night critics immediately recognized that "My Fair Lady" fully measured up to the Rodgers and Hammerstein model of an integrated musical...Robert Coleman...wrote 'The Lerner-Loewe songs are not only delightful, they advance the action as well. They are ever so much more than interpolations, or interruptions.'" The musical opened to "unanimously glowing reviews, one of which said 'Don't bother reading this review now. You'd better sit right down and send for those tickets...' Critics praised
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My Fair Lady


casting of Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and that the film was shot in its entirety at the Warner Bros. studio rather than, as he would have preferred, in London. Despite the controversy, "My Fair Lady" was considered a major critical and box office success, and won eight Oscars, including Best Picture of the Year, Best Actor for Rex Harrison, and Best Director for George Cukor. Columbia Pictures announced a new adaptation in 2008. The intention was to shoot on location in Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham
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Capital Repertory Theatre


the company moved to Albany and became Capital Repertory Theatre. The producing artistic director of Capital Rep is Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill. According to the website, the mission of Capital Rep is "to create a meaningful theatre generated from an authentic link to the community." Fred Rose, a Broadway veteran, has done several shows with Capital Rep, including performing as Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady" in the 2009-10 season. Shear Madness by Paul Portner The Seafarer by Conor McPherson My Fair Lady by Alan Lerner
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Columbia Masterworks Records


And in 1964, Columbia Masterworks would release a complete album of the 1964 Broadway revival of "Hamlet", starring Richard Burton and directed by John Gielgud—the longest-running "Hamlet" in Broadway history to date. Columbia Masterworks' most successful Broadway album was the original cast recording of "My Fair Lady" (OL-5090, 1956), starring Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway and Robert Coote. This first album was issued only in mono, but the first stereo recording of "My Fair Lady"—featuring the
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Alan Jay Lerner


from "My Fair Lady" was written with Rex Harrison in mind to complement his very limited vocal range. Lerner said of writing: In a 1979 interview on NPR's "All Things Considered", Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for "My Fair Lady". Professor Henry Higgins sings, "Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue." Lerner
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My Fair Lady (1958 TV series)


My Fair Lady was an Australian television series which aired from 1958 to 1962 on Wednesdays on Melbourne station HSV-7. Little information is available on this series. It was originally part of a line-up titled "Home", which featuring various segments including "Cooking", "Home Decorator" and "Shopping Guide". Later, it appears the "Home" branding was dropped. For part of its run it aired at 2:30PM. At one point in 1959 it was the first show on the station schedule for the
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My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)


impressed with the Lerner and Loewe songs for the show, that they decided to record more of them. They ended up filling the entire album with "My Fair Lady" tunes. Koenig brought in the complete score, and that evening Manne and Previn, between them, worked out the arrangements and recorded the entire album in one session, with Vinnegar providing the third "very important musical voice in the trio." Lively and appealing, and clearly aimed at popular taste, the music also showed some daring, in the
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My Fair Lady (film)


. The consensus states: "George Cukor's elegant, colorful adaptation of the beloved stage play is elevated to new heights thanks to winning performances by Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison." Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" opened his contemporary review: "As Henry Higgins might have whooped, 'By George, they've got it!' They've made a superlative film from the musical stage show 'My Fair Lady'—a film that enchantingly conveys the rich endowments of the famous stage production in a fresh and flowing cinematic
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With a Little Bit of Luck


sparkles with style and verve. A fine side for deejays." To accept the requests from customers and radio stations, Columbia Records released "The Rain in Spain" backed with "With a Little Bit of Luck" in 1956 (Columbia 4-40696) from Percy Faith's My Fair Lady album (Columbia CL-895) as an instrumental single record of My Fair Lady music. Both of Faith's tunes were the first single versions. When the original cast album already sold more than 250,000 copies, "Billboard" anticipated
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My Fair Lady (Broadway cast recording)


The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was released as an album on April 2, 1956. The songs were composed by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and conducted by Franz Allers, while the cast included stars Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. The album became a massive seller, topping the charts on the US "Billboard" 200 for fifteen weeks at different times in 1956 (eight consecutive weeks), 1957, 1958 and 1959. In the UK, upon its release in 1958, the album
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Eliza Doolittle


use of the word "bloody" - as a scripted intensive - caused a sensation when Campbell delivered it. For the 1938 film "Pygmalion", George Bernard Shaw personally requested the young English actress Wendy Hiller play Doolittle, a part she had previously played on stage opposite Leslie Howard as Higgins. Her performance served as the definitive film portrayal until Audrey Hepburn played the role in the highly successful 1964 film musical "My Fair Lady". Julie Andrews originated the musical version of Doolittle on stage in "My Fair Lady"
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London Bridge Is Falling Down


one of the best known in the world and has been referenced in a variety of works of literature and popular culture. There is considerable variation in the lyrics of the rhyme. The most frequently used first verse is: poemLondon Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady./poem In the version quoted by Iona and Peter Opie in 1951 the first verse is: poemLondon Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down. London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady./poem
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My Fair Lady


Sarah Gabriel / Christine Arand (Eliza Doolittle), Alex Jennings (Henry Higgins), Margaret Tyzack (Mrs. Higgins), Nicholas Le Prevost (Colonel Pickering), Donald Maxwell (Alfred Doolittle), and Jenny Galloway (Mrs. Pearce). A new production of "My Fair Lady" opened at Sheffield Crucible on December 13, 2012. Dominic West played Henry Higgins, and Carly Bawden played Eliza Doolittle. Sheffield Theatres' Artistic Director Daniel Evans was the director. The production ran until January 26, 2013. The
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My Fair Lady (2003 TV series)


My Fair Lady () is a 2003 South Korean television drama produced and first broadcast by SBS. It has a total of 16 episodes, and is a remake of the 2000 Japanese drama "Yamatonadeshiko" (), which aired on Fuji Television. Min-kyung,is a fresh high school graduate. She has worked in a liquor restaurant to pay off her father's gambling debt. However, Min-kyung borrowed some money and ran away, hoping to find a rich man as her spouse. Meanwhile, Young
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Rex Harrison


(1945), "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946), "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947), and "The Foxes of Harrow" (1947). He was best known for his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 film version of "My Fair Lady", based on the eponymous Broadway production (which in turn was based on George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion"), for which Harrison won a Best Actor Oscar. He also starred in 1967's "
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With a Little Bit of Luck


in Sonoda racecourse. Sometimes My Fair Lady music is used for figure skating programs. The US ice dance team Meryl Davis & Charlie White used it for their short dance during the 2013–14 figure skating season, including the Sochi Olympics where they were ranked #1. They studied the 1964 film of My Fair Lady. Davis said: "Our characters very much interact in a way that resembles Eliza Doolittle and Professor Higgins, but we've taken some liberties". White said: "The songs ("I Could Have Danced
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My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)


was begun when drummer Shelly Manne, pianist André Previn, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions of miscellaneous show tunes. (The three, having already recorded together as "Shelly Manne and His Friends", had some experience performing as a trio.) Previn and Manne were exchanging ideas with producer Lester Koenig, who suggested they do some tunes from the current Broadway musical "My Fair Lady". Manne and Previn were so
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Capiz


, Sep. 22 Parish priest: Gregorio Posadas Parochial vicar: John Marlon Bordo, Joedol Dorado 4. Our Lady of Snows Parish (F-1581) Population: 35,692 Catholics: 34,742 Titular: Our Lady of Snows, Aug. 5 Parish priest: Ramón Hontiveros 5. Our Lady of Fatima Parish Brgy. Dacuton, Dumarao 5812 Capiz Population: included in Dumarao Titular: Our Lady of Fátima Parish priest: Josel Faraon 6. St. Jerome Parish (F-1874) Population: 44,286 Catholics: 41,466 Titular: Saint Jerome, Sep. 30 Parish priest
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My Fair Lady


Linda Mugleston as Mrs. Pearce. Rosemary Harris replaced Rigg as Mrs. Higgins from September 11, 2018. Laura Benanti replaced Ambrose as Eliza from October 23, 2018, extending her engagement to July 7, 2019. Danny Burstein replaced Butz as Alfred P. Doolittle from January 8 to April 28, 2019. Alexander Gemignani replaced Burstein on April 30, 2019. The revival closed on July 7, 2019, after 39 previews and 509 regular performances. A German translation of "My Fair Lady" opened on October 1, 1961,
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TOSY


TOSY is a Vietnamese robots manufacturer which is based in Hanoi, Vietnam. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing robots and smart toys. Its current commercial products are DiscoRobo, TOOP and AFO. Technology – Originality – Satisfaction – Yearning Feb: TOPIO 2.0 made an impression at Spielwarenmesse Toy Trade Fair – world’s largest toy trade fair – held at Nuremberg, Germany; also introduced other smart toys like: BallRobo, TyreRobo & AFO. Sep: Opened its second factory at Cau Giay Industrial Zone. Nov: Made its second
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Pygmalion (1938 film)


Pygmalion is a 1938 British film based on the George Bernard Shaw play of the same name, and adapted by him for the screen. It stars Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations. The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical "My Fair Lady", which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name. The Hungarian producer Gabriel Pascal wished to create a set of films based on Shaw's
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Shelly Manne


for popular consumption. Manne made contributions here too. Best known is the series of albums he recorded with pianist André Previn and with members of his groups, based on music from popular Broadway shows, movies, and television programs. (The first and most successful of these was the "My Fair Lady" album based on songs from the musical, recorded by Previn, Manne, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar in 1956.) The recordings for the Contemporary label, with each album devoted to a single musical, are in a
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Mary Sands


(Earl Brand)," "The House Carpenter (The Daemon Lover)," "My Sad Overthrow (The Sheffield Apprentice)," "The Handkerchief (The Suffolk Miracle)," "Lady Marget (Fair Margaret and Sweet William)," "The Boatsman and the Chest," "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender," "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight," "Jimmy Randall (Lord Randall)," and "Your Sins Will Find You Out." "Your Sins Will Find You
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Sep Smith


maker of all-time behind Graham Cross. Smith mentored former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie during his time at Leicester. Revie, who dedicated an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled "What I Owe to Sep Smith" claimed "I'm proud now to think of how much time Sep spent passing on his Soccer knowledge to me. He played a big part in my shaping my career." He also referred to Smith as "an extraordinary footballer," saying "he could place the ball within an inch
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Man Pasand


film is inspired by "My Fair Lady".. This film is based on Marathi drama " Ti Fulrani" penned by P L Deshpande, which is in-turn based on George Bernard Shaw' famous play "Pygmalion". Best friends and musicologists Pratap (Dev Anand) and Kashinath (Girish Karnad) make a bet that Pratap can transform any unpolished girl into a graceful and talented singer in only six months' time. Kashinath agrees that he will marry the girl if Pratap is successful. One night they accidentally take
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Lady Frederick


saying "you've not seen my cards yet," produces love-letters from Charles's late father to a singer at the Folies Bergère. She invites Paradine to burn them, but he declines, saying "It's not fair to take an advantage over me like that. You'd bind my hands with fetters." Captain Montgomerie asks Lady Frederick to marry him; Gerald later tells her that it was because he is in debt to Montgomerie. The same scene as Act I. Lady Frederick has found that her creditor
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The Rain in Spain


dropping the leading 'H'. The phrase does not appear in Shaw's original play "Pygmalion", on which "My Fair Lady" is based, but it is used in the 1938 film of the play. According to "The Disciple and His Devil", the biography of Gabriel Pascal by his wife Valerie, it was he who introduced the famous phonetic exercises "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" and "In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen" into the
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Pygmalion (play)


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Pygmalion (play)


a glance the various dialects and [[sociolect]]s of Danish. [[File:Pygmalion-Fontanne-1926.jpg|thumb|[[Lynn Fontanne]] as Eliza Doolittle in the [[Theatre Guild]] production of "Pygmalion" (1926)]] [[File:Julie Andrews Rex Harrison My Fair Lady.JPG|thumb|[[Julie Andrews]] as flower girl Eliza Doolittle meets [[Rex Harrison]] as Professor Henry Higgins in the 1956 musical adaptation of "Pygmalion", "[[My Fair Lady]]".]] [[File
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Radley Metzger


1975) and "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" (1976), and are generally critically celebrated. Some historians assess "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), as attaining a mainstream level in storyline and sets and is considered, by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age of Porn. Some of the adult erotic "Henry Paris" films, including "
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Pornographication


, "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), and directed by Radley Metzger, was released theatrically and is considered, by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age of Porn. After the Internet was invented in the 1990s, more people could express themselves sexually online, and anyone could post pictures or videos if they chose to. Pornography in the West is generally
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Robert A. Harris


Robert A. Harris is an American film historian and preservationist, and owner of The Film Preserve Ltd, a New York-based company which specializes in the restoration and reconstruction of classic films. In collaboration with James C. Katz, he has restored several films, including "Lawrence of Arabia" (1989), "Spartacus" (1991), "My Fair Lady" (1994), "Vertigo" (1996), and "Rear Window" (1998). In 2006, he was involved in the restoration
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Alan Jay Lerner


the "Gigi" score for a musical stage adaptation. The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of "The Little Prince", based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This film was a critical and box office failure, but it has gained a modern following. Lerner's autobiography, "The Street Where I Live" (1978), was an account of three of his and Loewe's successful collaborations, "My Fair Lady", "Gigi", and "
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Art film


, which features an eccentric housewife slowly descending into madness. Also in the 1970s, Radley Metzger directed several adult art films, such as "Barbara Broadcast" (1977), which presented a surrealistic "Buñellian" atmosphere, and "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" (1976), based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), which was considered, according to award-winning author Toni Bentley, to be the "crown jewel" of the
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The Voice from the Minaret


The Voice from the Minaret is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, and Winter Hall. The film is based on the play of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens (London, Sep 1919). The film is considered lost. Lady Adrienne Carlyle (Norma Talmadge) leaves Mumbai, where her tyrannical husband, lord Leslie Carlyle, is the governor, heading off to England. On board, Lady Adrienne meets Andrew Fabian (Eugene O'Brien), who studies
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Alma Cuervo


Fair Lady". She was replaced by Barbara Tirrell. After "My Fair Lady", she returned to the tour of "Wicked" from November 14, 2007 through July 14, 2008, and was replaced by Myra Lucretia Taylor. In 2011, she originated the role of Hilary in Susan Charlotte's "The Shoemaker", directed by Antony Marsellis and co-starring Danny Aiello and Lucy Devito. In 2015, she originated the role of Gloria Estefan's grandmother, Consuelo, in the Broadway musical "On Your
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List of My Fair Princess characters


This article lists characters in the popular Chinese-language television series "My Fair Princess" (1998–1999) and "My Fair Princess III" (2003). Based on a true-life emperor of the Qing dynasty, Qianlong Emperor in this series is portrayed as a benevolent and caring but often short father. Part of the Aisin-Gioro ruling family, Qianlong is of Manchu descent. Like the real-life Qianlong, the emperor in "My Fair Princess" is a lover of arts and literature. Besides his
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John Williamson (singer)


that year, he issued "Fair Dinkum J.W.", featuring traditional Australian ballads, "With My Swag upon My Shoulder", "Botany Bay" and "Brisbane Ladies"; as well as originals, "Country Football", "Kill the Night", "Wrinkles" and "(You've Gotta Be) Fair Dinkum", a duet with Karen Johns. In 1983 Williamson released his first solo live album, "Singing in the Suburbs" and another live album, "The Smell of Gum Leaves
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Blue Movie


throughout the world. In 1976, "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), and directed by Radley Metzger, was released theatrically and is considered, by award-winning author Toni Bentley, the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age of Porn. "Blue Movie" was publicly screened in New York City in 2005, for the first time in more than 30 years. Also in New York City
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Academy Award for Best Picture


. Several musical adaptations based on material previously filmed in non-musical form have won Best Picture, including "Gigi", "West Side Story", "My Fair Lady", "The Sound of Music", "Oliver!", and "Chicago". At the 1st Academy Awards, the Best Picture award then named "Academy Award for Outstanding Picture" was presented to the 1927 silent film "Wings". "The Artist" (with the exception of a single scene of dialogue, and dream
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1970s in film


by critics (like Roger Ebert), a development referred to, by Ralph Blumenthal of "The New York Times", as "porno chic", and later known as the Golden Age of Porn, began, for the first time, in modern American culture. According to award-winning author Toni Bentley, Radley Metzger 1976 film "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), and due to attaining
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Cinema of the United States


Blumenthal of "The New York Times", as "porno chic", and later known as the Golden Age of Porn, began, for the first time, in modern American culture. According to award-winning author Toni Bentley, Radley Metzger 1976 film "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"), and due to attaining a mainstream level in storyline and sets, is considered the "crown jewel"
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Monkey Brand


promote the Monkey Brand soap on both sides of the Atlantic. In George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the musical based on it ("My Fair Lady"), Henry Higgins tells his housekeeper to take Eliza Doolittle upstairs and clean her up, and to use "...Monkey Brand, if it wont come off any other way" (Act II). In the movie version, the line is changed to "...sandpaper, if it won't come off any other way." The advertising campaign
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Cameron Mackintosh


late teens, as a stagehand at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and then became an assistant stage manager on several touring productions. He began producing his own small tours before becoming a London-based producer in the 1970s. His early London productions included "Anything Goes" in 1969 (which closed after only two weeks), "The Card" (1973), "Side by Side by Sondheim" (1976), "My Fair Lady" (1978) and "Tomfoolery" (1980). In
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Lamplighters Music Theatre


Lamplighters Music Theatre is a semi-professional musical theatre company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as such works as "The Merry Widow", "Die Fledermaus", "Of Thee I Sing", "My Fair Lady", "Candide", and "A Little Night Music". The company's season usually comprises four productions: a fully staged production in
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Eliza (magazine)


Eliza is an American fashion magazine founded in 2007 by Summer Bellessa, who was a Ford Model at that time. The publication is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and began with a circulation (based on its print run) of 10,000 in 2007. The publishing schedule is now irregular and the magazine is only available digitally and by print-on-demand via HP MagCloud. The magazine's name is a reference to Audrey Hepburn's performance as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady". The magazine describes itself as
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Tams-Witmark Music Library


Tams-Witmark is an American company that provides to professional and amateur theaters license to Broadway musical scripts and scores. Among the many notable properties handled by the company are "Kiss Me, Kate"; "My Fair Lady"; ""; "Bye Bye Birdie"; "Hello, Dolly!"; "Cabaret"; "Man of La Mancha" and "A Chorus Line". The company has also acquired numerous properties often inspired by or based upon motion pictures or comic strips, such as 42nd
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William Caulfield


co-wrote and starred in 'It's William Caulfield- so it is' a sketch based comedy series for Radio Ulster, nominated for a PPI Radio Award , William Caulfield's Workers Party which was recorded in various factories around the province. and was Team Captain on the Comedy Panel Show ""Either/Or"" Caulfield is well established in theatre playing Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls", Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady", Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" and Frank in "Annie
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Hayden Tee


Man Walking" based on the film of the same name, in which he played the role of Father Grenville. Tee appeared as Freddy Einsford Hill in Opera Australia's production of "My Fair Lady" in 2009 in Auckland. The "Theatre Review" wrote, "Hayden Tee is in fine voice, and is deliciously sappy and gushy as the love-struck Freddy." He played Professor Bhaer in "Little Women" for Kookaburra, The National Musical Theatre Company, as part of their 2008/2009 subscription season. He
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The Opening of Misty Beethoven


Misty"s plot was more elaborate than most; it was based directly on George Bernard Shaw's play, "Pygmalion", as well as the Broadway and Hollywood success "My Fair Lady". Some historians assess "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" as attaining a mainstream level in storyline and sets. Author Toni Bentley called the film the "crown jewel" of the Golden Age. The film is also satirical, with many added comic touches and dialogue designed for laughs. It includes Mark Margolis's first role. "The
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Golden Age of Porn


used pseudonyms. Being outed as having appeared in porn usually put an end to an actor's hope of a mainstream career. An indication of the returns still possible was that a 1976 release, "Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Comedy", favorably reviewed by film critic Roger Ebert in 1976, reportedly grossed over $90 million globally. Some historians assess "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, "My Fair Lady"
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Anna O'Byrne


directed production of "My Fair Lady" for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House, touring in 2017 to Brisbane, Melbourne and back to Sydney. She is currently based in London and performs internationally. Her performance career includes opera, theatre, concert, and film. Anna O’Byrne was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at Elwood Primary School and St Michael's Grammar School. She played violin from the age of 5, and performed in school orchestras and sang with the Australian Girls Choir. As a seventeen
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