I loved to perform, with my brother and sister, to the sound tracks of The Music Man or My Fair Lady or Windjammer.
It was named in reference to the Broadway musical My Fair Lady.
She played the part of Henry Higgins' mother in Canterbury High School's 2004 production of My Fair Lady.
He is best known for his work on Broadway, and especially for conducting the original Broadway productions of My Fair Lady and Camelot, for each of which he won the Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director, in 1957 and 1961.
:For the fictional character Henry Higgins, see Pygmalion or My Fair Lady.
Later in life, she had no trouble moving in upper class circles and appears to have been the model for the heroine in the 1884 novel Miss Brown by Vernon Lee upon which was based Mrs Higgins in Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1914) and the later film My Fair Lady.
Other later large-format and/or high-profile films Dunn's company did opticals for are My Fair Lady (1964), The Great Race (1965), Hawaii (1966), The Bible: In the Beginning (1966), Darling Lili (1970), and Airport (1970).
Since 1992 Mikkel Rønnow has been Musical Director for more than 20 Danish musical productions, including Chess (Danish premiere), West Side Story, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Copacabana (Scandinavian premiere), Grease, Cabaret, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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From 2006 - 2007 he ran his own production company, Pygmalion, which produced a criticcally acclaimed international version of My Fair Lady.
Their principal work has been in theatre, she worked under choreographs Carmen Senra & Denisis Perdikidis' orders, being their first performances on musicals Jesucristo Superstar & My Fair Lady.
The movie is a Bengali reworking of the story of Pygmalion, heavily drawing upon the hit British musical My Fair Lady.
In 1957 he conducted the national road company performances of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.
Among the many notable properties handled by the company are Kiss Me, Kate; My Fair Lady; Gypsy; Bye Bye Birdie; Hello, Dolly!; Oliver!; Cabaret; Man of La Mancha and A Chorus Line.
Another murder is presumed when the director of a musical, My Fair Lady, reports that his wife has gone missing.
In 1949, he became first trumpet with the MGM film studio orchestra, playing on all the major MGM soundtracks from the Golden Age of Hollywood including An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain, Gigi, West Side Story (at United Artists), My Fair Lady (at Warner Bros.), Two for the Seesaw and Bye Bye Birdie (at Columbia Pictures), along with many others.
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American Princess is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's My Fair Lady in a modern setting, where twenty American women who are average, plain, and rather ill-mannered, are taken to London, England to master the finer arts of British society and be crowned "American Princess" and earn valuable prizes.
She appeared on television on Art Linkletter's Hollywood Talent Scouts, and on stage in the productions of My Fair Lady and Blythe Spirits, and in the movie version of MY FAIR LADY at the request of André Previn, the composer and orchestra conductor.
Another famous voice role of his was an uncredited role as the singing voice of Freddy Einsford-Hill (played by Jeremy Brett) in My Fair Lady.
The school has been known for its great musical and theatrical ability and has staged many productions, musicals and musical, from Hobson's Choice, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and most recently in 2006 one of the first, if not the first, comprehensive school to perform the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.
This followed as a musical director for a number of major West End shows, including the first London production of My Fair Lady, and at the London Palladium the hit shows The Sound of Music and The King and I starring Yul Brynner.
Dan Almagor (born 1935) is an Israeli playwright who has adapted and translated over a hundred plays for the Hebrew stage, including Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors", "Fiddler on the Roof," "The King and I," "My Fair Lady" and "Guys and Dolls".
In print and media actor Rex Harrison was spokesman for the Aspen, whose advertising campaign was inspired by the "Ascot Gavotte" scene in Harrison's My Fair Lady.
Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character who appears in the play Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw, 1912) and the musical version of that play My Fair Lady.
He alternated between stage musicals and both comic and dramatic plays, including his role as Bob Baker in the original production of Wonderful Town (1953), Jupiter in the Cole Porter musical Out of This World, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and as Henry Higgins in the 1964 US tour of My Fair Lady.
For example, 1991's Blame It On My Youth, covered songs by Tom Waits ("Purple Avenue," aka "Empty Pockets"), Lyle Lovett ("God Will"), includes show tunes such as "If I Were a Bell" (from Guys and Dolls) and "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady), and even remakes "Trust In Me," from Disney's The Jungle Book, into a strikingly sultry and sinister song of seduction and death.
Smaller hits like "What's So Good About Goodbye" and "I've Been Good To You" are included, plus three covers of the easy listening standards "I've Got You Under My Skin" written by Cole Porter, "On the Street Where You Live" from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and "Speak Low" by Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill, on which both Smokey and Claudette Robinson sing lead.
Van Dreelen also enjoyed an international stage career and starred in a Dutch staging of My Fair Lady as well as the original American touring production of The Sound of Music.
Performances by the school have included "My Fair Lady", "Our Town", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Guys and Dolls" (2009).
She also had roles in The Maid of the Mountains, Call Me Madam, A Little Night Music, Nunsense, My Fair Lady and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as well as appearing in the non-musical plays Arsenic and Old Lace and Straight and Narrow.
Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as such works as The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Of Thee I Sing, My Fair Lady, Candide, and A Little Night Music.
His regional directing credits include My Fair Lady (Opera Pacific), The Pirates of Penzance (San Bernardino Civic Light Opera and Light Opera Works of Chicago), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Hollywood Cinegrill), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Fullerton Civic Light Opera), Ragtime (Light Opera Works of Chicago), and Candide (Light Opera Works of Chicago).
Solters worked on promotion of some 300 plays and musicals, such as the original Broadway theatre productions of Camelot, Funny Girl, Guys and Dolls, The King and I and My Fair Lady.
Stewie's giving lessons to Eliza to combat her Cockney accent is a direct reference to the play and later film My Fair Lady, in which the girl in question is also named Eliza.
In addition to operas and operettas, Cleveland Opera presented several musical theatre favorites, such as West Side Story, Man of La Mancha and My Fair Lady.
She also starred in highly acclaimed Madrid productions of Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady and Victor/Victoria.
In 1959 Bailey was engaged by the Australian theatrical producers J.C. Williamson Limited to play the part of Professor Henry Higgins in their production of the Lerner & Lowe musical My Fair Lady.
often appeared as a supporting actor in films with Chow Yun-fat including A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Tiger on Beat, Prison on Fire, God of Gamblers and The Greatest Lover (a Hong Kong adaption of the Pygmalion/My Fair Lady plot).
Her many significant roles at the National include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady by Lerner and Loewe and Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, also contributing to several stage productions of comedy and farce, such Ray Cooney’s Two for One and in Michael Frayn's Noises Off as the misfortunate actress Dotty Otley.
On her return to Australia in the mid 1990s she performed in shows including 42nd Street, The Pirates of Penzance and My Fair Lady.