I Could Have Danced All Night

"I Could Have Danced All Night"

Julie Andrews (Eliza), Rex Harrison (Higgins) in My Fair Lady

From the musical My Fair Lady performed by Julie Andrews (Broadway)

Audrey Hepburn (film-

dubbed by:) Marni Nixon

Published

1956

Genre

Musical theatre

Writer(s)

Composer: Frederick Loewe
Lyricist: Alan Jay Lerner

Chronology

Act I
"Overture" Add: Chubby Checker did a version on his 1961 album Your Twist Album. "Busker Sequence" "Why Can't the English?" "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" "With a Little Bit of Luck" "I'm an Ordinary Man" "With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise)" "Just You Wait" "The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)" "The Rain in Spain" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Ascot Gavotte" "On the Street Where You Live" "Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz"

Act II
"You Did It" "Just You Wait (Reprise)" "On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)" "Show Me" "The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "A Hymn to Him" "Without You" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" "I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale"

Act I
"Overture" Add: Chubby Checker did a version on his 1961 album Your Twist Album. "Busker Sequence" "Why Can't the English?" "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" "With a Little Bit of Luck" "I'm an Ordinary Man" "With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise)" "Just You Wait" "The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)" "The Rain in Spain" "I Could Have Danced All Night" "Ascot Gavotte" "On the Street Where You Live" "Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz"

Act II
"You Did It" "Just You Wait (Reprise)" "On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)" "Show Me" "The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)" "Get Me to the Church on Time" "A Hymn to Him" "Without You" "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" "I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale"

"Overture" Add: Chubby Checker did a version on his 1961 album Your Twist Album. "Busker Sequence"

"Why Can't the English?"

"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"

"With a Little Bit of Luck"

"I'm an Ordinary Man"

"With a Little Bit of Luck (Reprise)"

"Just You Wait"

"The Servants' Chorus (Poor Professor Higgins)"

"The Rain in Spain"

"I Could Have Danced All Night"

"Ascot Gavotte"

"On the Street Where You Live"

"Eliza's Entrance/Embassy Waltz"

"You Did It"

"Just You Wait (Reprise)"

"On the Street Where You Live (Reprise)"

"Show Me"

"The Flower Market/Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Reprise)"

"Get Me to the Church on Time"

"A Hymn to Him"

"Without You"

"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"

"I Could Have Danced All Night (Reprise) / Finale"

"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, published in 1956. The song is sung by the musical's heroine, Eliza Doolittle, expressing her exhilaration and excitement after an impromptu dance with her tutor Henry Higgins - in the small hours of the morning. In a counterpoint during the second of 3 rounds, two maids and the housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce, urge Eliza to go to bed, but she ignores them.

It was first performed by Julie Andrews in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. In the 1964 film adaptation of the musical, the song was sung by Marni Nixon, dubbing the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn, who played Eliza Doolittle. In 2004, Nixon's version finished at #17 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

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