My Fair Lady Adapted from Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" Produced on the Screen by Gabriel Pascal... Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner Production staged by Moss Hart Choreography and Musical Numbers by Hanya Holm Production Designed by Oliver Smith Costumes Designed by Cecil Beaton Musical Director Franz Allers Musical Arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett and Phil Lang Lighting by Feder Dance Music Arranged by Trude Rittman... (Edited by Franz Allers). [Piano-vocal score]

[New York]: Chappell [PN 4093-252], 1956. Folio. Original publisher's decorative pink wrappers printed in dark blue. [1] (title), [2] (named cast list), [3] (scenes), [4] (musical numbers), 5-256 pp.

Wrappers slightly worn and faded; previous owner's name in blue to corner of upper wrapper. First Edition, later issue.

"After [Loewe and Lerner's] less successful next collaboration, Paint Your Wagon (1951)... they wrote My Fair Lady (1956), an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the longest-running show of its era and one of the most highly regarded of all musicals..."

"... Loewe's successful evocation of Scottish melodies in Brigadoon, Western folk songs in Paint Your Wagon (the only Lerner and Loewe musical with an American locale), and British music hall and French cabaret tunes in My Fair Lady and Gigi, respectively, camouflaged a distinctive personal style, which demonstrated a predilection, even in the Western Paint Your Wagon, for a European rather than an American vernacular musical language." Geoffrey Block in Grove Music Online. (Inventory #: 27353)