My Fair Lady Chicago Tickets

My Fair Lady

Lerner and Loewe’s beloved Cinderella story, My Fair Lady, comes to Chicago’s Lyric Theatre of Opera to enchant theatergoers who cherish timeless tunes such as “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly,” “Get Me to the Church on Time,” “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.”

Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, this long-running musical blends comedy, musical styles, memorable characters and touching drama with social themes that are as relevant today as they were in Pygmalion’s 1912.

About the Show

Street urchin Eliza Doolittle struggles to make ends meet for herself and her philandering father selling flowers on the streets of London. One rainy evening, she bumps into three men who will her change life—Professor Henry Higgins, Colonel Pickering and Freddy Eynsford-Hill.

Higgins and Pickering, authorities on dialects, recognize in Eliza the opportunity to do something never done before - pass off a rough, lower-class cockney girl as an upper-crust society lady.  Which of her teachers will win the bet, can Eliza’s training pass the test in public? Young aristocrat Freddy becomes smitten as soon as he meets the newly emerging Eliza. Does Eliza accept Freddy’s marriage proposal and guarantee herself a life of leisure? What happens to a lowly girl who has tasted the life of the upper-class?

My Fair Lady made its Broadway debut on March 15, 1956 and has since enjoyed numerous revivals on Broadway, London and touring productions.

Chicago Tickets

Purchase tickets on StubHub today to see My Fair Lady at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, located at 20 N Upper Wacker Drive in Chicago at the corner of Madison and Wacker. One of the country’s most renowned performing arts venues, the Lyric Opera of Chicago plays host to a variety of performances both classic and contemporary at its Civic Opera House. A gorgeous and historic building, the Civic Opera House was built in 1929 and beautifully restored in 1996. A striking, Art Deco interior features 3,563 seats—one of the largest opera auditoriums in North America.

My Fair Lady Trivia

My Fair Lady’s Broadway cast recording enjoyed 15 weeks as Billboard’s No. 1 album in 1956. It stayed on the Top 200 for nearly 500 weeks.

Actor Rex Harrison starred in all original Broadway and London versions, as well as the movie version of My Fair Lady.

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