My Fair Lady / O.S.T. - My Fair Lady Soundtrack - Music & Performance - CD

The facts on My Fair Lady can be easily stated. About [forty years] ago, Alan Jay Lerner, writer, and Frederick Loewe, composer, decided to make a musical play out of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. To some people this might not have seemed like a promising idea. The musical stage is a sensuous medium with an orchestra, singers, scenery and other aids to festivity, but Shaw was a puritanical intellectual who despised the mating routines of the popular theater. He saw a sociological kind of romance in the skill with which a professor of phonetics could transform a guttersnipe into a lady by refining her speech, and he rejected the kind in which the theater traditionally luxuriates.