My Fair Lady 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 Broadway up to that time. It was followed by
The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits spring of 1964, "The Academy Award-Winning "Call Me Irresponsible" and Other Hit Songs from the Movies". This same pairing was also released as two albums on one CD by Sony Music Distribution in 2000. The Collectables CD was included in a box set entitled "Classic Album Collection, Vol. 1", which contains 17 of his studio albums and three compilations and was released on June 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