The run closed July 7, 2019
- Opened
- April 19, 2018
- Closed
- July 7, 2019
- Performances
- 553
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 44th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of My Fair Lady 5 more that season
| 1956 | Mark Hellinger Theatre Original · Moss Hart | 2,717 perf. |
| 1958 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1976 | St James Theatre Revival · Jerry Adler | 377 perf. |
| 1981 | Uris Theatre Revival · Patrick Garland | 119 perf. |
| 1993 | Virginia Theatre Revival · Alan Jay Lerner | 165 perf. |
Who was in it43 named
Manu Narayan
Cameron Adams
John Treacy Egan
Rebecca Eichenberger
Suellen Estey
Steven Trumon Gray
Adam Grupper
Michael Halling
Joe Hart
Sasha Hutchings
Liz Mccartney
Justin Lee Miller
Rommel Pierre O Choa
Keven Quillon
Blair Ross
Christine Cornish Smith
Paul Slade Smith
Samantha Sturm
Matt Wall
Lee Zarrett
Rosemary Harris
Christian Dante White
Mark Aldrich
Becca Ayers
Barbara Jo Bednarczuk
Hannah Florence
Kaitlyn Frank
Todd A Horman
Maryann Hu
Mary Claire King
13 of these 43 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Bartlett Sher
- Choreographer
- Christopher Gattelli
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her. The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a notable critical and popular success, winning six Tony Awards, including Best Musical. It set a record for the longest run of any musical on Broadway up to that time and was followed by a hit London product…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for My Fair Lady at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.