Costume designer Cecil Beaton reputedly created 1,500 costumes for My Fair Lady. In 2011, Eliza Doolittle's black-and-white royal ascot costume sold at auction for $4.5 million.

At age 65, "My Fair Lady" director George Cukor finally won his Oscar on his fifth nomination, setting a record as the oldest winner in that category, which held until 2003.

Barrios-Torres will be playing Eliza when "My Fair Lady," with with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, comes to The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the ...