Record Lady

Five years, four Elizas and three Higginses ago.* My Fair Lady opened in New York. This week the show passed Oklahoma's record of 2,212 performances to become the longest run musical in Broadway history. It is still remarkably crisp, thanks to production assistants, who appear regularly in the audience, advise cast and crew when the show lags. Director Moss Hart himself rehearses every major cast change, and Authors Lerner and Loewe check in occasionally. Lady has, to date, taken in some $50.2 million --$18 million on Broadway, $15.7 million from the traveling national company. $16.5 million from foreign productions. But there are still worlds to conquer. Although My Fair Lady's performance record will be up to Abie's Irish Rose in just 14 weeks, it will not pass Tobacco Road until November 1963, or Life with Father until January 1964.

*Julie Andrews, Sally Ann Howes, Pamela Charles, now Margot Moser; Rex Harrison, Edward Mulhare, now Michael Allinson.

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