Wouldn't It Be Loverly

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"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a popular show tune from the musical My Fair Lady, known for expressing Eliza Doolittle’s dreams of a better, more comfortable life.

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Wouldn't It Be Loverly canonical 1
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf song
associatedWith Broadway NERFINISHED
West End theatre NERFINISHED
basedOn Pygmalion NERFINISHED
cataloguedIn My Fair Lady song list
characterPerspective working-class flower girl
composer Frederick Loewe NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
fictionalContext Covent Garden NERFINISHED
filmAdaptation My Fair Lady (1964 film) NERFINISHED
firstPerformanceYear 1956
form solo song
fromMusical My Fair Lady NERFINISHED
genre Broadway song
show tune
hasInfluenceOn popular culture depictions of aspiration
hasRefrain "Wouldn't it be loverly?" NERFINISHED
hasTitleVariant Wouldn't It Be Lovely NERFINISHED
includedOn My Fair Lady original Broadway cast recording NERFINISHED
My Fair Lady original motion picture soundtrack NERFINISHED
language English
lyricalTheme desire for comfort
dreams of a better life
escape from poverty
lyricist Alan Jay Lerner NERFINISHED
lyricsBy Alan Jay Lerner NERFINISHED
musicBy Frederick Loewe NERFINISHED
notableFeature use of Cockney accent in lyrics
notablePerformer Audrey Hepburn NERFINISHED
Julie Andrews NERFINISHED
Marni Nixon NERFINISHED
originalBroadwayOpeningDate 1956-03-15
originalCharacter Eliza Doolittle NERFINISHED
originalPerformer Julie Andrews NERFINISHED
originalProduction My Fair Lady (1956 Broadway production) NERFINISHED
partOf My Fair Lady NERFINISHED
performedIn My Fair Lady (1964 film) NERFINISHED
performedInAct Act I of My Fair Lady NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1956
recordedBy Audrey Hepburn (dubbed singing voice by Marni Nixon) NERFINISHED
Julie Andrews NERFINISHED
setting London, England
surface form: London
style romantic ballad
sungByCharacter Eliza Doolittle NERFINISHED
tempo moderate

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My Fair Lady (film) notableSong Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Eliza Doolittle musicalNumber Wouldn't It Be Loverly
this entity surface form: Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?