My Fair Lady is perhaps the most popular musical of the 1950’s if not of the whole 20th century. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, the story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a coarse little peddler of flowers in Covent Garden who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to fulfill her dream of working in a flower shop. Eliza succeeds so well, however, that she outgrows her social station and — in a development added by librettist Lerner — even manages to get Higgins to fall in love with her.

Lerner and Loewe's score for the musical includes some of the best ever known songs and lyrics: "The Rain in Spain," "I Could Have Danced All Night," "On the Street Where You Live," "I'm Getting Married in the Morning," "With a Little Bit of Luck," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face."