Stanley Holloway was a magnificent Alfred P Doolittle!

My community chorus does about four concerts a year, and the Spring one is not infrequently a reprise of Broadway hits, anywhere from the Gay Nineties forward. It was startling to me the first time I realized how many chorus members weren't even familiar with the old hits I had always considered universally-known classics - Oklahoma, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, and, yes, My Fair Lady.

(Never assume anything, I concluded; there's a reason they are called "old." I just didn't think _I_ was.)