One of Shaw's most beloved plays, the basis for the musical, My Fair Lady. Professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility; the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. Written by Bernard Shaw.
1914 | Broadway |
Broadway |
1926 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1938 | Broadway |
Broadway |
1945 | Broadway |
Broadway |
1987 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1991 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
2004 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
2005 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
2007 | Broadway |
Roundabout Revival Broadway |
2018 | Off-Broadway |
Project Shaw One Night Only Production Off-Broadway |
2018 | Off-Broadway |
Bedlam Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
2023 | West End |
West End |
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