Musical based on Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and the film by Gabriel Pascal / Harztheater
Book and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Music: Frederick Loewe
German by Robert Gilbert
According to an ancient Greek legend, the sculptor Pygmalion created a statue of a woman who was so beautiful that he fell in love with her. The goddess of love, Aphrodite, brought the statue to life and gave it to Pygmalion as his wife. The writer George Bernard Shaw turned the sculptor into the eccentric and eccentric phonetician Professor Henry Higgins, who takes in the poor London flower girl Eliza Doolittle and molds her according to his ideas.
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe created what is probably the greatest musical classic of all time from this plot: after six Tony Awards, three Golden Globes and eight Oscars, "My Fair Lady" has rightly become an integral part of the German musical stage.
