Perhaps the best Broadway Music score ever (and I say that knowing the Sondheim scores well). The musical itself is showing its age, at least judging by a flabby revival at DC’s Arena stage last year. Odd that the original source, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is as tart as ever.
I think the Learner and Loewe score will be treasured as long as people remember musicals.
Here’s Rex Harrison and his famous Sprechstimme doing the whole scene:
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