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Shaw's classic romance; the basis for My Fair Lady

Story:

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

: Playwright
George Bernard Shaw

Broadway Premiere

Theatre: Park Theatre, Liberty Theatre, Wallack's Theatre

Opening Night: Oct 12, 1914

Total Performances: 72

Original Cast: E. J. Ballantine, Dallas Cairns, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Olive Wilmot Davies, Moira Greegan, Algernon Grieg, Edmund Gurney, Mrs. Edmund Gurney, Philip Merivale, Nellie Mortyne, Maud Phillips, Herbert Ranson

Producer: Liebler & Co.

1926 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Guild Theatre

Opening Night: Nov 15, 1926

Total Performances: 143

Original Cast: J. W. Austin, Charles Cardon, Phyllis Connard, Charles Courtneidge, Dorothy Fletcher, Lynn Fontanne, Winifred Hanley, Edward Hartford, Leigh Lovel, Reginald Mason, Thomas Meegan, Beryl Mercer, Bernard Savage, Henry Travers, Helen Westley, Kitty Wilson

Director: Dudley Digges

Producer: The Theatre Guild

1938 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Maxine Elliott's Theatre

Opening Night: Jan 25, 1938

Total Performances: 4

Original Cast: Charles Berre, Douglas Campbell, Lee Carney, Victor Casmore, Harry Clifton, Joan Croydon, Allan Dailey, Frank Daly, Norma Downey, Willard Foster, Erford Gage, John Giasi, Edward Hankel, Louise Huntington, Harry Jenkins, J. Harry Jenkins, May Kelly, Murray Lindsley, Ruth Masters, George McSweeney, W. O. McWatters, Rose Morison, Henry Pemberton, Sonia Shands, George Shields, Wayland Strong, Irene Taylor, Jay Velie, Gene Webber, Robert Youmans

Director: Charles Hopkins

Producer: Charles Hopkins and Federal Theatre Project of The WPA

Scenic Design: Ben Edwards

Costume Design: >Ben Edwards

Lighting Design: Feder

1945 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Opening Night: Dec 26, 1945

Total Performances: 179

Original Cast: Gertrude Lawrence, Raymond Massey, Melville Cooper, Cecil Humphreys, Wendy Atkin, Jay Black, Anita Bolster, John Cromwell, Katherine Emmet, Hazel Jones, Walter Kapp, John Parks, Barbara Pond, Frieda Smith, Lucy Storm, Myrtle Tannehill, Rudolph Watson, J. P. Wilson

Director: Cedric Hardwicke

Producer: Theatre Incorporated

Scenic Design: Donald Oenslager

Costume Design: Motley

1987 Broadway Revival

Theatre: Plymouth Theatre

Opening Night: Apr 26, 1987

Total Performances: 113

Original Cast: Dora Bryan, Lionel Jeffries, John Mills, Peter O'Toole, Amanda Plummer, Joyce Redman, Osmond Bullock, Mary Peach, Kirstie Pooley, Ivar Brogger, Selena Carey-Jones, Edward Conery, Robertson Dean, Wendy Makkena, Lucy Martin, Richard Neilson, Angela Thornton

Director: Val May

Producer: The Shubert Organization, Jerome Minskoff and Duncan C. Weldon

Scenic Design: Douglas Heap

Costume Design: Terence Emery

Lighting Design: Martin Aronstein

2007 Broadway Revival

Theatre: American Airlines Theatre

Opening Night: Oct 18, 2007

Total Performances: 69

Original Cast: Claire Danes, Boyd Gaines, Jefferson Mays, Jay O. Sanders, Jennifer Armour, Kerry Bishé, Kieran Campion, Helen Carey, Tony Carlin, Jonathan Fielding, Brad Heikes, Robin Moseley, Sandra Shipley, Curtis Shumaker, Doug Stender, Karen Walsh, Brenda Wehle