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    My Fair Lady is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It opened on Broadway in 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, with Julie Andrews starring as Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl who is taught to speak properly by professor Henry Higgins. The document recommends the songs "Just You Wait" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the show's repertoire and discusses how the author's mother once played Eliza Doolittle.

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    My Fair Lady is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It opened on Broadway in 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, with Julie Andrews starring as Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl who is taught to speak properly by professor Henry Higgins. The document recommends the songs "Just You Wait" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the show's repertoire and discusses how the author's mother once played Eliza Doolittle.

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    Wagon, Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi

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    My Fair Lady is a musical with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. It opened on Broadway in 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, with Julie Andrews starring as Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl who is taught to speak properly by professor Henry Higgins. The document recommends the songs "Just You Wait" and "I Could Have Danced All Night" from the show's repertoire and discusses how the author's mother once played Eliza Doolittle.

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    Musical: My Fair Lady


    2. Composer: Frederick Loewe
    Lyricist/Librettist: Alan Jay Lerner
    Director: Moss Hart
    3. Other Works: Whats Up, The Day Before Spring, Paint Your
    Wagon, Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi
    4. Source of the Story: George Bernard Shaws play Pygmalion
    5. When and Where it Opened: it opened on March 15, 1956 at the
    Mark Hellinger Theatre
    6. Appropriate Roles:
    Eliza Doolittle played by Julie Andrews, Christine
    Andreas, Nancy Ringham, and Melissa Errico, a
    cockney flower girl
    7. Songs for the Repertoire: Wouldnt It Be Loverly?, Just You Wait,
    and I Could Have Danced All Night
    8. My mother played Eliza Doolittle so I grew up with this show but I
    hadnt really examined it till now. Just You Wait is a great
    character song, there are a lot of things that can be done with
    the acting, thats a song I would love to work on this year.
    9. Song Recommendations:
    Bella I Could Have Danced All Night
    Heather Just You Wait

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