The title comes from the song Get Me To The Church On Time from the Lerner and Loewe musical/movie My Fair Lady (1964) which was adapted from he G.B. Shaw play Pygmalion. The original Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York on March 15, 1956, and ran for 2717 performances, which was, at the time, the longest run a Broadway show had ever had. The original production is still the eighteenth-longest-running production in Broadway history. The show won the 1957 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Musical.