Opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956. Closed September 29, 1962 after 2,717 performances — 6.5 years. 6 Tony Awards in 1957, including Best Musical My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her. Wiki link