My Fair Lady
Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Play and Gabrial Pascal’s motion picture “Pygmalion”
source: MTI
Performances at
Elm Street Auditorium
November 15-17, 1974
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Synopsis of Scenes and Musical Numbers
The Place is London
The Time 1912
Act One
Scene I Outside Covent Garden -- a cold March night
Why Can’t the English Higgins
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? Eliza & Ensemble
Scene II Tottenham Court Road Tenements -- immediately following
With A Little Bit of Luck Doolittle & Cockneys
Scene III Higgins’ Study -- the following morning
I’m An Ordinary Man Higgins
Scene IV Tenements -- several weeks later
With A Little Bit of Luck Doolittle & Cockneys
Scene V Higgins’ Study -- later that day
Just You Wait Eliza
The Servants Chorus Mrs. Pearce & Servants
The Rain in Spain Higgins, Eliza & Pickering
I Could Have Danced All Night Eliza & Mrs. Pearce
Scene VI Ascot -- a July afternoon
Ascot Gavotte Royalty Chorus
Scene VII Outside Higgins’ House, Wimpole Street -- late afternoon
On The Street Where You Live Freddy
Scene VIII Higgins’ Study -- six weeks later
Scene IX Transylvanian Embassy Ballroom -- that night
The Embassy Waltz Higgins, Eliza, Pickering, Karpathy and Ensemble
Act Two
Scene I Higgins’ Study -- 3 a.m. the following morning
You Did It Higgins, Pickering, Mrs. Pearce & Servants Chorus
Just You Wait Eliza
Scene II Outside Higgins’ House -- immediately following
On The Street Where You Live Freddy
Show Me Eliza & Freddy
Scene III Covent Garden Flower Market -- 5 a.m. that morning
Get Me To The Church On Time Doolittle & Cockneys
Scene IV Higgins’ Study -- 11 a.m. that morning
Scene V Mrs. Higgins’ House -- later that day
Without You Higgins & Eliza
Scene VI Higgins’ Study -- immediately following
I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face Higgins
