Beerbohm-Tree, the founder RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1904), is commemorated in an official blue plaque on his former home 31 Rosary Gardens, South Kensington. The first person to play the character of Henry Higgins was actor-director-impresario Herbert Beerbohm-Tree, who was a close friend of Shaw. Written in 1913, Pygmalion premiered in Vienna on 16 October 1913 and then in London on 11 April 1914 at His (now Her) Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket. My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, which has a virtually identical plot and lead characters. Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket Grade II* listed In celebration, here we present a series of listed sites in England associated with My Fair Lady. This 20 th of May is especially significant, as it falls in the 60 th anniversary year of the play’s stage premiere on Broadway in New York in March 1956. Written by Joe Flatman, Head of Central Casework and Programmes at Historic Englandįor those who love the musical play and film My Fair Lady, the 20 th May is celebrated annually as Eliza Doolittle Day: a light-hearted commemoration of all things musical-related.
Next week on the twentieth of May, I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day’. ‘One evening the King will say ‘Oh, Liza, old thing, I want all of England your praises to sing.
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