My Fair Lady

Cultural

An American musical comedy of 1956, with words by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. My Fair Lady is based on the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, about a professor in London who teaches a low-born flower girl how to speak and act like the nobility. The songs “On the Street Where You Live” and “I Could Have Danced All Night” come from My Fair Lady.

Example Sentences

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“London bridge is falling down, my fair lady.”

From Literature

Just a small sampling of the musicals that have remained popular in the U.S. and abroad would include Frank Loesser’s “Guys and Dolls” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”; Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot”; Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun”; Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate”; Jule Styne’s “Gypsy”; Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story”; and John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret” and “Chicago.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Holland had also been in the audience for My Fair Lady at the same venue in 2024.

From BBC

Ms Montgomery was starring as Eliza Doolittle in a school production of My Fair Lady.

From BBC

In my senior year I was Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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