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Moviefone.com is reporting that Keira Knightley is hoping that studio bosses to put pen to paper and cast her as the lead in the big screen remake of My Fair Lady, because as she tells Moviefone she's been preparing for the part for two years.

Of the few songwriting teams known as one word we have Rodgers & Hart, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb and...Lerner & Loewe. These two men created many of America's most well-known musical theater scores. They weren't nearly as prolific as those others mentioned, but in listing their works together, there's not one clinker among them. Their first hit was Brigadoon in 1947, then came Paint Your Wagon in 1951, My Fair Lady in 1956, the film Gigi for MGM in 1958 and finally Camelot in 1960.

The Open Fist Theatre Company presents Moss Hart's classic and timeless comedy, LIGHT UP THE SKY which will be directed by Bj?rn Johnson. LIGHT UP THE SKY will preview on Saturday, January 10 at 8pm; Sunday, January 11 at 3pm and Thursday, January 15 at 8pm and will open on Friday, January 16 at 8pm and run through Saturday, March 7 at The NEW Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. (former home of The Actor's Gang) in Hollywood.

The Open Fist Theatre Company presents Moss Hart's classic and timeless comedy, LIGHT UP THE SKY which will be directed by Bj?rn Johnson. LIGHT UP THE SKY will preview on Saturday, January 10 at 8pm; Sunday, January 11 at 3pm and Thursday, January 15 at 8pm and will open on Friday, January 16 at 8pm and run through Saturday, March 7 at The NEW Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. (former home of The Actor's Gang) in Hollywood.

The Open Fist Theatre Company presents Moss Hart's classic and timeless comedy, LIGHT UP THE SKY which will be directed by Bj?rn Johnson. LIGHT UP THE SKY will preview on Saturday, January 10 at 8pm; Sunday, January 11 at 3pm and Thursday, January 15 at 8pm and will open on Friday, January 16 at 8pm and run through Saturday, March 7 at The NEW Open Fist Theatre, 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. (former home of The Actor's Gang) in Hollywood.

Pioneer Theatre Company proudly presents 'My Fair Lady,' the classic tale about a draggle-tailed guttersnipe who learns to talk like a lady.

Transport Group, the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and a 2007 Obie Award, has announced its 2008-09 season: Bury the Dead, written by Irwin Shaw and directed by Joe Calarco, and Being Audrey, music and lyrics by Ellen Weiss, book by James Hindman, additional book and lyrics by Cheryl Stern, developed with Jack Cummings III and Adam R. Perlman, and directed by Jack Cummings III.

Experience the passion, romance and excitement of the most electrifying music ever written for Broadway, when Pittsburgh CLO proudly presents West Side Story August 5 through August 17 at the Benedum Center. This classic musical is filled with jet-propelled dancing, melodious songs and the poignancy of youthful heartbreak.

Broadway Star and BTP Alum Ashley Brown, currently playing Mary Poppins in the Broadway hit Mary Poppins, Rob Fisher and Joan Lader will be teaching at Broadway Theatre Project in Tampa Week Two.

In this weekends Parade magazine Kelli O'Hara says if she were offered the role of Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY she'd take it.

Columbia Pictures has entered into an agreement with CBS Films to create a new motion picture of the Lerner and Loewe classic musical My Fair Lady, to be produced by Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh. The new film will use the original songs of the much-loved Broadway show...

A dazzling new production of Lerner and Loewe's Broadway classic relights the long dark main stage at Toronto Centre for the Arts. * * * * * (OUT OF 5)

Cameron Mackintosh and the National Theatre of Great Britain bring award-winning production to Boston, featuring dazzling costumes and sets, creative choreography, outstanding direction and performances - the complete package!

Hollywood blogger Army Archerd, powered by Variety.com, reports that Julie Andrews will return to Broadway as a director in the musical stage-adaptation of her book 'The Great American Mousical,' which she co-wrote with daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.

Screen star Claire Danes, most recently seen on screen in the all-star cast of Evening, will play Eliza Doolittle to Jefferson Mays' Henry Higgins in the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, directed by David Grindley at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway

Variety.com reports that Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays (I am My Own Wife) will star in the fifth Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

Trevor Nunn's hit 2001 West End production of My Fair Lady is finally headed to Broadway.

More stars have signed on to The New York Philharmonic's presentation of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, which will play four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007.

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.

Rob Fisher will conduct the N.Y. Philharmonic in four performances of 'My Fair Lady' this March at Avery Fisher Hall.

FRONT ROW CENTRE, a weekly program featuring original cast performances of Broadway's greatest hits returns to the Toronto airwaves starting Sunday November 12.

Broadway's Sally Murphy and DC theatre veteran Andrew Long will headline Signature Theatre's upcoming production of the Lerner and Loewe classic My Fair Lady, running from September 26th through November 19th