With a Little Bit of Luck With a Little Bit of Luck "With a Little Bit of Luck" is a popular song by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play "My Fair Lady". It was sung by Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Doolittle in both the original stage and film versions. It is sung by Eliza's bin man father, Alfred P. Doolittle and is about a list of everyday situations which one finds themselves in, and a desire to take the easy way out as "With a Little Bit of Luck" one's fate might change, thus avoiding any responsibility. The song
My Lady Molly Moore. It also enjoyed tours and had a brief Broadway run. "My Lady Molly" was the last successful English comic opera in the tradition of Alfred Cellier's "Dorothy" and Arthur Sullivan's "Haddon Hall", as distinguished from the style of the lighter Edwardian musical comedies of the period. A review in "The Daily Mail" stated: ACT I - The Courtyard at Coverdale Arms. "Morning." Act II - The Hall in Coverdale Castle. "Night." Notes My Lady Molly My Lady Molly is a 'comedy opera' in two acts with a libretto by George H. Jessop, with additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank and