Heartbeat of Broadway

The Story Behind the Story

My Fair Lady

English · Radio, Performing Arts

Heartbeat of Broadway offers a radio look at the stories behind Broadway productions. This installment is identified with My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

The program’s focus is the background to a stage work: the ideas and creative choices that shape a Broadway story and bring it to the theater. Here, the title points listeners toward the making and context of My Fair Lady, whose transformation of Shaw’s tale of Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins became one of Broadway’s best-known musicals.

Its appeal lies in hearing a celebrated production considered not just as a collection of songs, but as a story with literary roots and a life on stage. The result is a glimpse into Broadway’s creative world, centered on the history and character of a landmark musical.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.