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  2. Jan 17, 2025The play My Fair Lady, adapted by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) from the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, opened on Broadway in 1956 and won six Tony Awards, including best musical.The production, starring Harrison as Higgins, Julie Andrews as Eliza, and Holloway as her father, ran for 2,717 performances, until September 1962.
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  3. …plays, including the phenomenally successful My Fair Lady (1956; filmed 1964). Read More; example of stage musical. In theatre music: Stage musicals …the most successful specimens is My Fair Lady, with music by Frederick Loewe, a Viennese-born American composer. This musical had first runs of 2,717 performances in New York (from 1956) and ...
  4. Jan 16, 2025From the late 1940s through most of the '50s, Harrison spent much of his time on the New York stage. Harrison won a Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days (1948-49). His greatest stage triumph came during the 1956-59 seasons with his portrayal of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
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  5. Henry Higgins, fictional character, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet that he can teach Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle how to speak proper English, in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (performed 1913). The story was filmed in 1938, starring Leslie Howard as Henry Higgins, and was
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  6. Frederick Loewe (born June 10, 1901, Berlin, Germany—died February 14, 1988, Palm Springs, California, U.S.) was a German-born American composer and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series of hit musical plays, including the phenomenally successful My Fair Lady (1956; filmed 1964).. Loewe, whose father was a Viennese actor and operetta tenor, was a child prodigy, playing the piano at ...
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  7. Jan 31, 2025Pygmalion, romance in five acts by George Bernard Shaw, produced in German in 1913 in Vienna.It was performed in England in 1914, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle.The play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system. Henry Higgins, a phonetician, accepts a bet that simply by changing the speech of a Cockney flower seller he will be able, in six months, to pass her ...
  8. Alan Jay Lerner (born Aug. 31, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 14, 1986, New York, N.Y.) was an American librettist and lyricist who collaborated with composer Frederick Loewe on the hit Broadway musicals Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960) and the film Gigi (1958).. Lerner, whose parents were prosperous retailers (Lerner Stores, Inc.), was ...
  9. Jan 23, 2025Emily Davison (born October 11, 1872, Roxburgh House, Greenwich, Kent [now part of Greater London], England—died June 8, 1913, Epsom, Surrey [now part of Greater London]) was a British activist who became a martyr to the cause of women's suffrage when she entered the racetrack during the 1913 Epsom Derby and moved in front of King George V's horse, which struck her while galloping at ...
  10. Feb 7, 2025Dr. Seuss (born March 2, 1904, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 24, 1991, La Jolla, California) was an American writer and illustrator of immensely popular children's books noted for their nonsense words, playful rhymes, and unusual creatures.. Early career and first Dr. Seuss books. After graduating from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1925), Geisel did postgraduate studies at ...
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