The Street Where I Live

The Street Where I Live is a non-fiction work by Alan Jay Lerner.

In it, he describes the genesis of three of his most famous musicals: Gigi, My Fair Lady and Camelot. It is auto-biographical, but not strictly speaking an autobiography as he mentions his seven marriages only briefly, and refers to his other works only in passing. Lerner was generous to his collaborators, except for Stanley Donen, who directed the film version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story The Little Prince, and treated the music score with what Lerner felt was contempt. Lerner also expresses dissatisfaction with rock music, which he considered "a belch".

My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Lerner and Loewe)

Characters	Eliza Doolittle

Source	Pygmalion (1912 play) by George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion (1938 film) by George Bernard Shaw adapted by W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis

Films	My Fair Lady (1964 film) The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976) Man Pasand (1980)

Albums	My Fair Lady (1956 Broadway cast recording) My Fair Lady (1956 Shelly Manne album) My Fair Lady (1958 Oscar Peterson Trio album) Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady (1963 album) My Fair Lady Loves Jazz (1964 Billy Taylor album) The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits (1964 Andy Williams album)

Musical numbers	"Wouldn't It Be Loverly? " "With a Little Bit of Luck" "The Rain in Spain" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "On the Street Where You Live" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"

Television	"My Fair Laddy" "One If by Clam, Two If by Sea" Selfie

Related	The Street Where I Live

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