Broadway History: The Golden Age of the American Book Musical, Part 6 My Fair Lady
…be the most perfect book musical to ever grace the Broadway stage. Source Material Playwright George Bernard Shaw. The source material for My Fair Lady was George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Shaw, a world-class playwright who created intellectual comedies, first saw the play produced in 1912. The play takes the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion, which is the story of a sculptor named Pygmalion who falls in love with one of his creations. The 1938, wh…