Musical in two acts after the theatre play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw, on the music of Frederick Loewe Presented for the first time on Broadway, in 1956, My Fair Lady tells the story of Eliza Doolittle - a poor simple flower girl from the streets of London, and Henry Higgins – an acclaimed linguistic Professor, and expert in the art of phonetics, dared by his friend, Colonel Pickering, in ...