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21. Zinsser, Easy to Remember, 229.

22. Lerner himself said that “Luck” was intended to be “an English music hall song.” Alan Jay Lerner, “Creation of a Lady,” Alpha RHO Journal 1, no. 2 (Fall, 1960): 7.

23. Ibid., 10.

24. Ibid., 11.

25. Lerner once wrote an article mentioning “the deep and true influence of Oklahoma! … [S]ince that spring of 1943, no musical could ever again aspire to success with a sketchbook foundation, and no amount of unrelated choreographic virtuosity could rescue a raggedy second act.” Alan Jay Lerner, “Oh What a Beautiful Musical,” New York Times Magazine, May 12, 1963, 29–33. When he later wrote a book on the history of the genre, Lerner devoted an entire chapter to the importance of Oklahoma! Alan Jay Lerner, The Musical Theatre: A Celebration (London: Collins, 1986), 150–53.

26. Margaret Landon’s part-novel, part-biography Anna and the King of Siam was published in 1944 and filmed in 1946. The novel was based on Anna Leonowens’s two memoirs, The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870) and Romance of the Harem (1872).

27. Page numbers in parentheses refer to the published script. Ultimately, of course, the fact that Eliza’s desire to better herself has been over-satisfied—because she is fit to be “a consort to a king” (again Higgins’s words, 147)—means that this ambition is now too modest, and perhaps impossible now that she has entered high society. One of the tensions of the story, indeed, is that Eliza’s ambition to become a lady is realized by the end of act 1. The remainder of the story concerns the resolution of the Eliza-Higgins relationship, but in truth Eliza’s question to Higgins—“What’s to become of me?” (110)—is never really answered.

28. Hobe Morrison, review of “My Fair Lady, ” Variety, March 21, 1956.

29. John Beaufort, “My Fair Lady from Pygmalion,” Christian Science Monitor, March 24, 1956.

30. Letter of March 2, 1959, Levin to Kenneth Allen, ed., Tribune, HLP, 33/6. The exact same wording is used in numerous letters to similar journalists and editors contained in this folder, which is marked “Editorial Campaign.”

31. Swain, Broadway Musical, 199.

32. Ibid., 197.

33. Ibid., 200.

34. Block, Enchanted Evenings, 231 and 234.

35. Ibid., 242.

36. Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 284–93.

37. Lerner, “Creation of a Lady,” 9.

38. Ibid., 12.

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