Overture to My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York on 15 March 1956 with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, and ran for 2,717 performances; Frederick Loewe wrote the music, Alan Jay Lerner the book and lyrics, after Shaw's Pygmalion, which Shaw's estate had long refused to release. The overture is a straightforward medley of the principal tunes — I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, the title of the show — orchestrated, like the rest of the score, by Robert Russell Bennett and Phil Lang.