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My Fair Lady is a hugely popular musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. In this wonderful story, Henry Higgins, a Professor of Phonetics, encounters Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, one cold March night at Covent Garden market. He declares to his friend Colonel Pickering that in three months he could transform Eliza into a duchess. She is beautiful, elegant and well-spoken and proves to be an enormous success particularly with the young gentleman Freddy Eynsford-Hill who falls desperately in love with her. The Musical's 1956 Broadway production was a momentous hit, setting the longest run of any major musical theatre production in history. It has be called "the perfect musical."
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