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About the Play
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.
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
- Director
- David Grindley
- Producer
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- Scenic Design
- Jonathan Fensom
- Costume Design
- Jonathan Fensom
- Lighting Design
- Jason Taylor
- Sound Design
- Gregory Clarke
1938 Film Version
- Movie Name
- Pygmalion
- Type
- Hollywood Feature Film
- Director
- Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
- Screenplay
- George Bernard Shaw
- Starring
- Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson
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1987 Tony Award Nominations
Best Actress In A Play - Amanda Plummer
Best Revival
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