MY FAIR LADY COMING TO AMERICA!

The recent Nation Theatre/Trevor Nunn (which transfered to Theatre Royal Drury)revival of MY FAIR LADY will tour the UK from Autumn and then transfer to America for its 50th Anniversary.

Whether the transfer will be a tour i dont know, but obviously Broadway is the plan.

So Watch out Broadway, My Fair Lady is back!

The new revival is fantastic! Superb.

I am in love with My Fair Lady, as you can tell by my username!

^^ It's a period piece -- from top to bottom. Any sexism that's there exists purely because of the Edwardian time frame. It's never bothered me in the slightest.

Shaw's purpose of writing Pygmalion was to promote proper usage of the English language. Period.

In myproduction, we were allowed to pick the ending for whether Eliza would come back or not. We wanted her to come back so we would have a happy ending. I'm sort of a feminist and I dont' think the message is anti-feminist at all. Eliza had nothing left. She spoke too well to work in a flower shop and she didn't love Freddy. She wanted to go back to Higgins because she loved him too.

not really trypguy, because if it was then he would be criticizing the working class, which he wasnt. he was criticizing the upper class for being so self righteous when in fact the working class ended up having more morals. this is a very strong theme in england in the 19th century- dickens wrote about the same thing in Hard Times

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Updated On: 6/21/05 at 12:40 PM

This show does nothing for me.

Arishmoof-I guess you're right, you would be happy that Eliza kept her dignity. But in my production, our Higgins played his character so pathetically at the end that everyone was happy when Eliza came back so he could stop groveling.

my fair lady- that is a very good way of dealing with the discrepency, i like the idea of higgins being played that way, ive never seen it.
ryanwoods- just writing it off as "thats the way it happened back then" is just the kind of thinking that keeps you from thinking critically and moving forward. sexism still happens majorly today (just look at the gap in payment for the same jobs between the sexes) and needs to be fought with positive messages. just look at the positive message La Cage put out there for the gay family community.

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arish, Shaw and Ibsen didn't really like women all that much. Get over it.

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L&L wrote the music for Higgins' songs around the fact that he has a gross lack of range...not pitch. They explain this in detail on a bonus track on the most recent release of the cast album.

I LOVE this show. I love the unconventional love story. It reminds me so much of my favorite Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing. In all honesty, both characters are terrible towards each other, but they get over it.

I love how Higgins is so bent on people speaking proper English. It makes me ridiculously happy.

And one of my favorite songs in the history of musical theatre is "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face". It's so in character and so well written and perfectly performed. I love it. The whole score is freaking awesome, actually.

And now I'm gonna stop gushing.

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Updated On: 6/21/05 at 01:53 PM

They were not male feminists at all. Do some research or I guess my BFA means nothing?

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Correction on the Ibsen statement, I don't have enough evidence to back it up. However Shaw felt women were "Foolish Creatures" and the term Chauvinist comes from the man's last name. Any other questions?

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