<Tr> <Th> Productions </Th> <Td> 1956 Broadway 1957 US Tour 1958 West End 1976 Broadway 1978 UK Tour 1979 West End 1980 US Tour 1981 Broadway 1993 US Tour 1993 Broadway 2001 West End 2005 UK Tour 2007 US Tour 2016 / 7 Australia Tour </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Tony Award for Best Musical </Td> </Tr> <P> My Fair Lady is a musical based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe . The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady . The original Broadway, London and starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews . </P> <P> The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success . It set a record for the longest run of any show on Broadway up to that time . It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals . My Fair Lady has frequently been called "the perfect musical". </P>

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