My Fair Lady: A Musical Play In Two Acts Based On Pygmalion By Bernard Shaw
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
One of the most beloved musicals ever staged, My Fair Lady transforms George Bernard Shaw's sharp-tongued comedy Pygmalion into a glittering celebration of language, class, and the stubborn human heart. The story chronicles the audacious wager of Professor Henry Higgins — a pompous phonetics expert who bets he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a sharp-witted Cockney flower girl, as a duchess at the Embassy Ball, simply by refining her speech and manners. Alan Jay Lerner's brilliant adaptation retains every ounce of Shaw's biting wit while infusing the narrative with unforgettable lyrics that have become cornerstones of the American musical canon, from I Could Have Danced All Night to On the Street Where You Live. This illustrated edition, with artwork by the legendary Cecil Beaton — the very designer who brought the original 1956 Broadway and subsequent London productions to life — presents the complete book and lyrics of the musical in a form that is both a literary document and a visual artefact. Lerner's writing illuminates the tensions between power and transformation, pride and vulnerability, as Eliza's journey forces both student and teacher to confront what they truly value. Published by Max Reinhardt & Constable in London, this edition stands as a handsome testament to a production that defined an era of musical theatre — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final curtain, who truly changed whom.
Author: Alan Jay Lerner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Max Reinhardt : Constable, London
Genre: Plays
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
One of the most beloved musicals ever staged, My Fair Lady transforms George Bernard Shaw's sharp-tongued comedy Pygmalion into a glittering celebration of language, class, and the stubborn human heart. The story chronicles the audacious wager of Professor Henry Higgins — a pompous phonetics expert who bets he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a sharp-witted Cockney flower girl, as a duchess at the Embassy Ball, simply by refining her speech and manners. Alan Jay Lerner's brilliant adaptation retains every ounce of Shaw's biting wit while infusing the narrative with unforgettable lyrics that have become cornerstones of the American musical canon, from I Could Have Danced All Night to On the Street Where You Live. This illustrated edition, with artwork by the legendary Cecil Beaton — the very designer who brought the original 1956 Broadway and subsequent London productions to life — presents the complete book and lyrics of the musical in a form that is both a literary document and a visual artefact. Lerner's writing illuminates the tensions between power and transformation, pride and vulnerability, as Eliza's journey forces both student and teacher to confront what they truly value. Published by Max Reinhardt & Constable in London, this edition stands as a handsome testament to a production that defined an era of musical theatre — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final curtain, who truly changed whom.