Music by
Frederick Loewe
Book and Lyrics by
Alan Jay Lerner
Adapted from
George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion'
Orchestrations by
Robert Russell Bennett and Phillip J. Lang
Cast List
Alec McCowen
Tinuke Olafimihan
Michael Denison
Dulcie Grey
Henry Wickham
and
Bob Hoskins
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards
My Fair Lady, one of the worlds favourite musicals, is given
a sparkling first complete recording starring an exemplary cast
headed by the great Alec McCowen as Professor Higgins. The wonderful
and versatile opera star Tinuke Olafimihan takes on the role of
Eliza Doolittle and that of Alfred Doolittle by international
film star Bob Hoskins.
This star studded complete recording won the prestigious 1997
Gramophone Award in the Music Theatre category.
It is unusual for any works in the canon of the Broadway Musical
Theater to be brilliant in every aspect of the work, My Fair Lady
is one of those rare creatures and this recording is also one
of them in that every second of it is brilliantly recorded especially
the orchestrations of Robert Russell Bennett and Phillip J. Lang.