$5 Off Tix: Hit Broadway Classic “My Fair Lady” Live in SF (Final Night)

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Based on the film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is a beautiful musical about transformation, patronage, gender politics and class. Acclaimed phonetician Henry Higgins makes a wager that in six months he can pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as a duchess at an embassy ball. But through arduous training, day and night, this innocuous bet turns into something much more.

My Fair Lady
San Francisco Playhouse
July 3 – September 13, 2025
450 Post St., SF
Tickets starts at $58 $63 – including side orchestra tickets!

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Winner of 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical

“One of the gleaming artifacts and loveliest scores of the Golden Age of American musical theater.” – The New York Times

About the Creators

ALAN JAY LERNER, (born Aug. 31, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died June 14, 1986, New York, N.Y.), American librettist and lyricist who collaborated with composer Frederick Loewe on the hit Broadway musicals Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960) and the film Gigi (1958).

Lerner, whose parents were prosperous retailers (Lerner Stores, Inc.), was educated at Bedales School, Hampshire, Eng.; Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.; the Juilliard School of Music, New York City; and Harvard University (B.S., 1940), where he contributed lyrics to Hasty Pudding shows. He wrote more than 500 radio scripts between 1940 and 1942, the year he met Loewe (who had been composing theatrical songs with little success) at The Lambs theatrical club in New York City. One Lerner and Loewe Broadway production failed, and a second had a five-month run before the 1947 success of Brigadoon.

My Fair Lady, their fifth musical, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, was an unprecedented triumph in American musical theatre. Produced by Columbia Broadcasting System, it set a record at the time for the longest original run of any musical production in London or New York City, was mounted in more than 20 countries, translated into 11 languages, toured the United States for several years, and was revived several times. The film version (1964) won seven Academy Awards. Brigadoon (1954), Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Camelot (1967) were also made into popular motion pictures. Gigi, Lerner and Loewe’s collaboration directly for film, received nine Academy Awards.

FREDERICK LOEWE (born June 10, 1901, Berlin, Germany—died February 14, 1988, Palm Springs, California, U.S.) German-born American composer and collaborator with Alan Jay Lerner on a series of hit musical plays, including the phenomenally successful My Fair Lady (1956; filmed 1964).

Loewe, whose father was a Viennese actor and operetta tenor, was a child prodigy, playing the piano at age 5, composing for his father’s presentations at 7, and at 13 becoming the youngest soloist to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He received advanced musical instruction from Ferruccio Busoni and Eugène d’Albert. Loewe wrote a popular song, “Katrina,” at age 15, and more than 1,000,000 copies of the sheet music for it were eventually sold.

Loewe arrived in the United States in 1924 and worked in a variety of odd jobs for the next 10 years. In 1934 he contributed music to the Broadway play Petticoat Fever, and by 1936 he was writing music for Broadway revues, but he received little acclaim. Loew collaborated with lyricist Earle Crooker on the musical plays Salute to Spring (1937) and Great Lady (1938), but they similarly failed to gain attention.

 

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