My Fair Lady Cocktails – An Excuse To Drink

March 15, 1956: 60 years ago today, the musical My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews and Stanley Holloway, opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. The production would eventually transfer to the Broadhurst Theatre and finally to The Broadway Theatre, where it closed on September 29, 1962 after 2,717 performances, a record at the time.

 

My Fair Lady Cocktails

My aunt died of influenza – so they said, but it’s my belief they done the old woman in…Yes, Lord love you. Why should she die of influenza when she come through diptheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she was dead, but my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat…Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl off the spoon…Now what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it, and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in…Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat pin, let alone a hat…Gin was mother’s milk to her. Besides, he’d poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it…Drank! My word! Something chronic! –  Eliza Doolittle

 

My Fair Lady

Created by the late great, Joe Gilmore, the longest-serving  Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, to mark Julie Andrews’ first night in the musical ‘My Fair Lady.’

• 1 part Gin
• 1 part Lemon Juice
• 1 part Orange juice
• 1 part Sirop de Fraise/Strawberry Syrup
• 1 dash of egg white

Shake ingredients together with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass.

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