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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 My Fair Lady - The Musical
Alan Jay Lerner. One of the 'Daddies' of lyric writers. He took hold of cockney London and made it his own. Likewise, the command of the English language and the use of rhyme in 'Why Can't A Woman' is unsurpassed.
| The character Doolittle, Eliza's father, is very rarely mentioned by his christian name. Can you tell me what it is? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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Alfred P. He is, as I have been informed, called Alfred, twice! Once by Eliza when she berates him for asking for beer money. Once in the song 'I'm Getting Married In The Morning' when his mates try to get him out of the pub!
| Eliza is at the races in Ascot in all her finery. As the race comes to its exciting climax, what does Eliza shout out to the horse she has picked? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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'Move yer bloomin' arse!'. Having had a fresh strawberry tea with Duchesses, mixed with the upper class and dressed like a Princess, she forgets herself for one brief moment to cry out to the horse, 'Move yer bloomin' arse!'. I mean, what else could one say !
| What is the name of the Colonel who partners Professor Higgins in his 'experiment' with Eliza? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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Hugh Pickering. The delightful Wilfrid Hyde-White played Pickering as Prof. Higgins was to always call him. Pickering was an absolute gent. He was very British, very 'Club Tie' and always charming.
False. Although not a singer, Rex Harrison sang every note of his songs. Stout Fellow!
| Which of the songs features the lines '...are second nature to me now. Like breathing out and breathing in'? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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'I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face'. Lerner's lyric fill this song with such warmth.
| Freddy pines for the love of Eliza and waits outside the house of Professor Higgins, where he sings 'On The Street Where You Live'. What street in London is where she lives? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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Wimpole St.. Wimpole St. is today, still the area of professors, lawyers, doctors and specialists. But I don't think you'd find a Professor Higgins.
| 'Lot's of chocolate for me to eat, lot's of coal makin' lot's of 'eat. Warm face, warm hands, warm feet'. What comes next? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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'Oh, Wouldn't It Be Loverly'. Easy, but can't you taste the chocolate and feel the '(h)eat.
Pygmalion. George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play 'Pygmalion' was first made into a film by Gabriel Pascal in 1938, starring Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. Then there was a stage show in 1956, and then the movie as we know it in 1964.
| And finally, in what year did the movie version of 'My Fair Lady' starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn open? | 'My Fair Lady' Vol. 1
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1964. The show is as fresh today as it was all those years ago.
27A Wimpole Street. London's Wimpole Street remains a highly respectable address to this day.
18d. Eliza's friend took French lessons for eighteen pence an hour from a real French gentleman . . .
Wales. I'm waiting to tell you, I'm willing to tell you, I'm wanting to tell you - that's the Welsh strain (according to Higgins anyway!).
Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and India.. Pickering had recently returned from military service in India - where he has taken a great interest in Indian dialects.
The Carlton. Upon being told this, Higgins replies, "No you're not; you're staying at 27A Wimpole Street."
Gotterdammerung. "By George," exclaims Pickering, "that's a rackety one!"
Brighton. The only thing we learn about the outing is that Higgins bought a ring for Eliza while there.
Brewster Budgin. Pickering's friend at the Home Office.
In the library. Henry is already in the house so she can't have the two of them in the same room.
7244. Such long, complicated telephone numbers in those days . . . Pickering 'phones the Home Office to seek advice on Eliza's disappearance from Wimpole Street.
Yorkshire. According to Zoltan Kaparthy, Dr Stephanos was the son of a Yorkshire watchmaker who "speaks English so villainously that he dare not utter a word of it without betraying his origin".
Over 200. Higgins himself only has records of over fifty . . .
Ezra D. Wallingford. Higgins informs Wallingford that Alfred P. Doolittle, a common dustman, is one of the most original moralists in England. Wallingford, a keen 'moral reformer' then dies and leaves Doolittle a healthy income . . .
Her birdcage and her Chinese fan.. "But, she says, never mind about sendin' any clothes!" reports a gleeful Mrs Hopkins.
Five pounds.. Doolittle refuses to take the offered ten pounds on the grounds that it would make him "feel prudent-like; and then goodbye to happiness." He is more than happy to accept five pounds in order to provide "one good spree for myself and the missus, givin' pleasure to ourselves and employment to others, and satisfaction to you to know it ain't been throwed away."
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