![]() ![]() ![]() In My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner takes the legend one step further-the barrier is swept away and Higgins and Eliza are reunited as the curtain falls on one of the loveliest musical plays of our time-winning seven Tonys® for its original Broadway production, and seven Oscars® for its film adaptation. Shaw expected Eliza to end up with Freddy and run a flower shop. Pygmalion became Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, his statue an untutored flower girl from the streets of London, and the barrier between them is class. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion as his bride.Ĭenturies later, George Bernard Shaw captured the magic of this legend in his celebrated play, Pygmalion. The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. ![]() A play in two Acts based on Pygmalion by Shaw. Adaptation and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw s 1913 stage play Pygmalion. Then, in 1956, it was adapted into the definitive musical. See images for the condition of this Swedish book.īlurb: This book is in Swedish! Illustrated by Cecil Beaton with black & white drawings. Adapted from George Bernard Shaws Play and Gabriel Pascalss motion picture. For decades, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion looked like a play that could never be turned into a musical. Previous owner's name written inside front cover. Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and use. ![]()
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