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
Elvis (name) Elvis (name) Elvis is a male given name. It is an anglicisation of the Irish name of Saint Ailbe. However, Ailbe may itself be a gaelicisation of an Ancient British name such as Eilfyw or Eilfw, and the saint was also a popular figure in medieval Wales, where he was claimed to be of Ancient British descent. Most commonly, the name refers to American singer Elvis Presley (1935–1977). It may also be the first name of people who were born before Presley became a household name, as in the case of the former U.S. administrator Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr. (1916–1998,