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My Fair Lady is Lerner & Loewe’s most successful musical, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, boasts to his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can train any woman to speak properly. He chooses Eliza Doolittle, a poor girl with a strong Cockney accent, whom he encounters selling flowers in Covent Garden. This score is arranged for piano and voice.

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Camelot, the 1960 musical by Lerner and Loewe, is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from T. H. White's novel 'The Once and Future King'. The main conflict of the novel and the play is the affair between Arthur's wife, Guenevere, and his friend, Sir Lancelot. **Trinity College London selected piece (Singing 2010-2012): The Seven Deadly Virtues (Loewe)

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Sparkling with wit, wisdom and wonderful songs including, ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’, ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly’ and ‘Get Me To The Church On Time’, the musical play based on Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ has been delighting audiences since it was first performed in the 1950s.When overbearing Professor Higgins stumbles on flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, in Covent Garden he recognizes that her hideous vowels and forgotten consonants are all that separate her from the upper classes. Higgins wagers that he can pass her off as a Duchess in a matter of weeks. But what will become of Eliza when the bet is over? This edition of ‘My Fair Lady’ includes the complete script and a selection of black and white stills from the Oscar-winning film starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

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The libretto of Camelot, the 1960 musical play by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe. The musical is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel "The Once and Future King". The main conflict of the novel and the play is the affair between Arthur's wife, Guenevere, and his friend and First Knight, Sir Lancelot.

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My Fair Lady is Lerner & Loewe’s most successful musical, based on the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, boasts to his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can train any woman to speak properly. He chooses Eliza Doolittle, a poor girl with a strong Cockney accent, whom he encounters selling flowers in Covent Garden. This songbook of vocal selections from the popular musical is arranged for piano and voice with guitar chords.

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