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MY FAIR LADY LOEWE, Frederick and LERNER, Alan Jay. "MY FAIR LADY, " based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Opened in New York, 15 March 1956. Production staged by Moss Hart, starring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway and Catherine Nesbitt. Cinema version released 1964.
LERNER & LOEWE SONGS OMITTED FROM THEIR "MY FAIR LADY": ALL UNPUBLISHED AND UNPERFORMED
Frederick Loewe's personal archive of manuscript music from the creation of My Fair Lady, which is widely regarded as the best musical-theatrical work of its type, a show which originally ran for a remarkable 2,717 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York and enjoys worldwide popularity even now. My Fair Lady remains the only show ever to be voted unanimously the best musical, by the New York Drama Critics Circle and won no fewer than 6 Tonys. This group of Loewe's manuscripts consists of numbers composed for but not used in the show; all are entirely unpublished and have never been performed or recorded. (performance rights of course, remain with the agents of the composer and lyricist). The Library of Congress possesses the only other manuscripts of My Fair Lady, an apparent fair copy, presented by the composer in the 1960s. No other manuscripts are known to survive from this, certainly the most successful collaboration of Lerner and Loewe and these songs, not used in the production, are otherwise unknown and have never been published.
Present are early drafts of at least 7 numbers, three of which are fully worked out in piano-vocal score ; all are in the hand of Frederick Loewe as are the cover sheets. Totalling 36 < pages, folio, consisting of 5 handwritten title-sheets (4 on music staff paper), 30 1/4 pages of music, mostly in pencil a few as noted in mechanical copy with corrections and revisions, and one page of typescript lyrics.
Contents:
"The Pygmalion Waltzes," mechanical copy of Loewe's working piano score, with pencilled notes and deletions by Loewe, 4 pages (incomplete at end?)
"Come to the Ball," mechanical copy of Loewe's working piano-vocal score, 10 pages, with pencilled label by Loewe: "from 'My Fair Lady,' never used," signed "Fritz," and with his handwritten note that it was to be sung by the character "Higgins"; other deletions and revisions in score by Loewe
"Please Don't Marry Me" (Higgins), autograph melody and lyrics by Loewe, 3 pages
"Shy," piano-vocal score, 3 pages
"Shy" (Liza), piano-vocal score, 3 pages
"There's a Thing Called Love" (Liza), melody and lyrics, 2 pages,
"Dear Little Fool" (Higgins), melody, 1 page
"Lady Liza" (Higgins, Pickering), melody and lyrics, 1 page
"Liza - Counter" (Higgins, Pickering, etc). melody (duet), 2 pages
"What Is A Woman," melody, 1 page, title "Lady Liza" on verso in Loewe's hand.
[With:] "There's A Thing Called Love," typescript lyrics (4 verses) , 1 page.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
LERNER & LOEWE SONGS OMITTED FROM THEIR "MY FAIR LADY": ALL UNPUBLISHED AND UNPERFORMED
Frederick Loewe's personal archive of manuscript music from the creation of My Fair Lady, which is widely regarded as the best musical-theatrical work of its type, a show which originally ran for a remarkable 2,717 performances at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York and enjoys worldwide popularity even now. My Fair Lady remains the only show ever to be voted unanimously the best musical, by the New York Drama Critics Circle and won no fewer than 6 Tonys. This group of Loewe's manuscripts consists of numbers composed for but not used in the show; all are entirely unpublished and have never been performed or recorded. (performance rights of course, remain with the agents of the composer and lyricist). The Library of Congress possesses the only other manuscripts of My Fair Lady, an apparent fair copy, presented by the composer in the 1960s. No other manuscripts are known to survive from this, certainly the most successful collaboration of Lerner and Loewe and these songs, not used in the production, are otherwise unknown and have never been published.
Present are early drafts of at least 7 numbers, three of which are fully worked out in piano-vocal score ; all are in the hand of Frederick Loewe as are the cover sheets. Totalling 36 < pages, folio, consisting of 5 handwritten title-sheets (4 on music staff paper), 30 1/4 pages of music, mostly in pencil a few as noted in mechanical copy with corrections and revisions, and one page of typescript lyrics.
Contents:
"The Pygmalion Waltzes," mechanical copy of Loewe's working piano score, with pencilled notes and deletions by Loewe, 4 pages (incomplete at end?)
"Come to the Ball," mechanical copy of Loewe's working piano-vocal score, 10 pages, with pencilled label by Loewe: "from 'My Fair Lady,' never used," signed "Fritz," and with his handwritten note that it was to be sung by the character "Higgins"; other deletions and revisions in score by Loewe
"Please Don't Marry Me" (Higgins), autograph melody and lyrics by Loewe, 3 pages
"Shy," piano-vocal score, 3 pages
"Shy" (Liza), piano-vocal score, 3 pages
"There's a Thing Called Love" (Liza), melody and lyrics, 2 pages,
"Dear Little Fool" (Higgins), melody, 1 page
"Lady Liza" (Higgins, Pickering), melody and lyrics, 1 page
"Liza - Counter" (Higgins, Pickering, etc). melody (duet), 2 pages
"What Is A Woman," melody, 1 page, title "Lady Liza" on verso in Loewe's hand.
[With:] "There's A Thing Called Love," typescript lyrics (4 verses) , 1 page.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady