My Fair Lady
Alvin Theatre
Previews Began: August 14, 1981
Opening Night: August 18, 1981
Closing Night: November 29, 1981
Music: Frederick Loewe
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Book: Alan Jay Lerner
Eliza Doolittle, a rough Cockney girl, meets Colonel Pickering and Henry Higgins in Covent Garden where she’s selling flowers. When Higgins remarks that he could help Eliza speak properly and raise her status in the community, Pickering challenges him to do so and Eliza takes him up on the offer. Though difficult and frustrating for both Eliza and Higgins at first, the lessons soon begin to work wonders, and produce results that neither predict.
Musical Numbers
Act One
Overture……………………………………………Orchestra
Busker Sequence……………………………….Orchestra
Why Can’t the English?………….Professor Higgins
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?……….Eliza, Male Quartet
With a Little Bit of Luck…..Alfred Doolittle, Harry,
Jamie, Company
I’m an Ordinary Man………………Professor Higgins
With a Little Bit of Luck
(Reprise)……………………Alfred Doolittle, Ensemble
Just You Wait…………………………………………….Eliza
The Servants’ Chorus (Poor Professor
Higgins)……………………………Mrs. Pearce, Servants
The Rain in Spain………….Professor Higgins, Eliza,
Colonel Pickering
I Could Have Danced All Night…………………..Eliza,
Mrs. Pearce,
Servants
Ascot Gavotte……………………………………..Ensemble
On the Street Where You Live………………..Freddy
Eliza’s Entrance/Embassy Waltz……….Orchestra
Act Two
You Did It….Colonel Pickering, Professor Higgins,
Mrs. Pearce, Servants
Just You Wait (Reprise)………………………………Eliza
On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)….Freddy
Show Me……………………………………….Eliza, Freddy
The Flower Market/Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?
(Reprise)………………………………Eliza, Male Quartet
Get Me to the Church on Time…..Alfred Doolittle,
Ensemble
A Hymn to Him………………………Professor Higgins,
Colonel Pickering
Without You………………….Eliza, Professor Higgins
I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her
Face……………………………………….Professor Higgins
I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise)/
Finale………………………………………………..Orchestra
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