Read Loverly:The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies) Online
Authors: Dominic McHugh
Tags: #The Life And Times Of My Fair Lady
26/4: Pascal arbitration correspondence
26/5: Protection of Rights correspondence
26/6: Oliver Smith correspondence
26/7: Summer tent theaters correspondence
26/8: Supporting actors correspondence
26/8–27/11: Financial Statements
26/9, 27/12–29/11: Legal records
30/1: Vocal score (ann.)
30/2: Voice parts, printed score
30/3–32/3: Payroll
32/5: Publicity correspondence
32/6: Editorial campaign
33/1: Letters from the public
33/2: Richard Maney correspondence
33/3: Thank You letters
33/4: Publicity miscellany
33/5–33/11: Royalties
34/2: Early script outlines
34/3: Mimeographed script by Lerner
34/4–6: Mimeographed scripts (ann.)
34/7: Rehearsal script
34/8: Unused/cut lyric sheets
34/9: Stage manager’s script
35/1: Technical script
35/2: Bus and truck script
35/3: Taxes 35/4–9: Technical production
60/1: Piano-conductor score
60/2–5: Act I instrumental parts
61: Act 2 instrumental parts
62/2: Light plots and hanging plots by Abe Feder
Moss Hart Collection:
12/5:
My Fair Lady
typescript, personal copy
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Theatre Guild Collection:
Box 83: Correspondence (Alan Jay Lerner)
Box 59: Correspondence (Rex Harrison)
Box 62: Correspondence (Theresa Helburn)
Box 137: Correspondence (George Bernard Shaw)
Harold Rome Papers:
MSS 49: 65/85 and 79/57: Script and correspondence for
Saints and Sinners
New York Public Library
Hanya Holm Papers:
Series 4, 21/518: Choreographic notation and correspondence on
My Fair Lady
Library of St John’s College, Cambridge
Cecil Beaton Papers:
Vol. 98: Diary, 1954–45.
Harvard University Library
Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library:
MS Thr 225:
My Fair Lady
“script prepared for publication”
Theatre Museum Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum
Michael Redgrave Papers:
CREDITSTH 17/31/41/12: Redgrave’s Diary for 1955
The following songs are excerpted with permission:
“What Is a Woman” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Please Don’t Marry Me” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Lady Liza” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Come to the Ball” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
Dress Ballet (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Why Can’t the English” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“English, The” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“A Hymn to Him” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“On the Street Where You Live” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Son of the Wooden Soldier, The”
Lyrics by JOHN W. BRATTON Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1941 (Renewed) BELWIN-MILLS PUBLISHING CORP.
All Rights Assigned to and Controlled by ALFRED MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., INC.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“You Did It” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Say a Prayer” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
Pygmalion Waltzes (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“Shy” (from
My Fair Lady
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1956 (Renewed) CHAPPELL & CO.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
“What Do the Simple Folk Do?” (from
Camelot
)
Words by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE
Copyright © 1960 (Renewed) ALAN JAY LERNER and FREDERICK LOEWE
Publication and Allied Rights Assigned to CHAPPELL & CO., INC.
All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
Adler, Jerry
as director of 1976 revival, 183
as stage manager of original production, 179
Adler, Richard, 13
Allegro
, 7, 24
Allen, Gene, 181
Allers, Franz
as conductor of 1976 revival, 183
as conductor of original production, 39, 96, 121, 129
as conductor of Russian tour, 179
Andreas, Christine, 183
Andrews, Anthony, 189
Andrews, Julie
acting problems of, 46
billing of, 29–30
Broadway run, 175, 206
casting as Eliza, 25, 27, 30
contract signing, 39
Equity problems of, 33–34
and film version, 181
hair color of, 43
Home
, 41
late arrival to rehearsals of, 41–42
London transfer, 177–78
memories of “Shy,” 102, 104
as potential star of 1976 revival, 183
“Say a Prayer for Me Tonight,” 121
whistling prowess of, 36
Annie Get Your Gun
, 8, 9, 201, 206
Anything Goes
, 9, 201
Arlen, Harold, 7, 14
“The Ascot Gavotte”
derived from “Lady Liza,” 101
Freddy’s participation in, 155–57
interpretation in 1993 revival, 186
interpretation in 2001 revival, 189
manuscript sources for, 161–62
in movie adaptation, 182
musical style of, 198
original lyric, 216
in outlines of show, 58–61, 70–71, 77
scene in show, 56, 57, 75
structural position, 88, 89, 91, 93, 204
“Ballroom Intro,” 163
Barber, Elizabeth, 11
Barer, Marshall, 176
Beaton, Cecil
contract of, 40
design ideas, 35
diaries of, 3, 40
fees of, 33
film designs of, 181
hiring of, 11, 12, 21–22, 28, 30
production of Harrison’s costumes in London, 41, 43, 46
reproduction of original costumes for 1976 revival, 183
Beaumont, Hugh
as producer of
Bell, Book and Candle
, 32–33, 36–39
as producer of London
My Fair Lady
, 177
Bell, Book and Candle
, 28, 30–32, 36–39, 177
Bennett, Robert Russell, 96, 122, 169
“The Ascot Gavotte” orchestrations, 162
“Bridge after Prayer” orchestrations, 121
“Dress Ballet” orchestrations, 109, 116, 117
“The Embassy Waltz” orchestrations, 164
“Entr’acte” orchestrations, 165
“Get Me to the Church on Time” orchestrations, 153
hiring of, 40, 46
“I Could Have Danced All Night” orchestrations, 130, 131
“I’m an Ordinary Man” orchestrations, 143
“I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” orchestrations, 147–49
“Just You Wait” orchestrations, 129
“On the Street” orchestrations, 132–33, 157
Overture orchestrations, 123
“The Rain in Spain” orchestrations, 161
“The Servants’ Chorus” orchestrations, 160
“Why Can’t the English?” orchestrations, 142
“With a Little Bit of Luck” revision to orchestrations, 152
“Without You” orchestrations, 133
“Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” orchestrations, 125, 126
“You Did It” orchestrations, 165–66
Bernstein, Leonard, 14, 132, 196, 201
Block, Geoffrey, 159–60, 163, 182, 196, 203–4
Bock, Jerry, 12
Boy Friend, The
, 26, 27, 33, 34, 41–42
Bratton, John W., 161
Brigadoon
genesis of, 7, 8, 10, 16, 39
musical style of, 95, 192, 196
similarity of name to
Fanfaroon
, 44
storyline of, 191, 201
Trude Rittmann’s association with, 42
Britton, Tony, 187
Brook, Peter, 12
Burton, Richard, 181
Busoni, Ferruccio, 197
Cahn, Sammy, 183
Call Me Madam
, 8, 9, 15
Call Me Mister
, 15
Callow, Simon, 187