07.04.07
My Fair Lady
They just played “The Street where you live” on the radio, and I realised I couldn’t remember how it ends. Does the awful Henry Higgins propose? I assume he does and she says yes, but then what happened to the chap who hung outside her house being in love with her. Does he get his heart broken?
Leon said,
July 4, 2007 at 11:59 am
Can’t remember My Fair Lady but in Pygmalion she rejects Higgins marries the idiot boy and opens a flower shop. The army officer doesn’t try to marry her.
I think the idiot boy loses all his money at the end.
Sarah said,
July 4, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I didn’t know My Fair Lady was Pygmalion until I was 21. I still haven’t read or seen it. I am sure my parents or the state, or someone, is to blame for this level of ignorance.
Sarah said,
July 4, 2007 at 1:50 pm
wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady) doesn’t enlighten “But Higgins soon realizes his feelings for her–that he has “grown accustomed to her face.” When Eliza tentatively returns to him, the musical ends on an ambiguous moment of possible reconciliation between teacher and pupil.” Hardly satisfactory.
V said,
July 4, 2007 at 2:57 pm
She winds up with Higgins. Shaw went mental about the change of ending in the musical version. You can read the epilogue to the play here:
http://www.bartleby.com/138/6.html