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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:

TH 17/31/41/12: Redgrave’s Diary for 1955

CREDITS
 

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

INDEX
 

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

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