Hirschfeld was commissioned to draw My Fair Lady for the movie’s re-release in 1971. Here, Hirschfeld has captured all the grandeur, the spectacle, the excitement of the opening of the Ascot Races. When the Broadway show was first conceived by Alan Jay Lemer and Frederick Loewe, these two geniuses enthusiastically told their friend Al Hirschfeld about their idea. As Hirschfeld recalled to me many a time, he advised them against such a venture. Thinking it was doomed from the start, Hirschfeld told them to “cut and run”: “Who in the world would go to see a musical version of Pygmalion?”!