My Fair Lady V/S FM

Music by Frederick Loewe, lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Vocal Score. Lerner & Loewe's most successful musical, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. Synopsis: Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, boasts to his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can train any woman to speak properly. He chooses Eliza Doolittle, a poor girl with a strong Cockney accent, whom he encounters selling flowers in Covent Garden.