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The Life and Times of My Fair Lady
Oxford Univ Press
May 2014
On Sale: May 1, 2014
288 pages ISBN: 0199381003 EAN: 9780199381005 Kindle: B008AVIRVK Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Few musicals have had the impact of Lerner and Loewe's
timeless classic My Fair Lady. Sitting in the
middle of an era dominated by such seminal figures as
Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, and Leonard
Bernstein, My Fair Lady not only enjoyed critical
success similar to that of its rivals but also had by far
the longest run of a Broadway musical up to that time. From
1956 to 1962, its original production played without a break
for 2,717 performances, and the show went on to be adapted
into one of the most successful movie musicals of all time
in 1964, when it won eight Academy Awards. Internationally,
the show also broke records in London, and the original
production toured to Russia at the height of the Cold War in
an attempt to build goodwill. It remains a staple of the
musical theater canon today, an oft-staged show in national,
regional, and high school theaters across the country.
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