My Fair Lady Tour — Page 3

The fact that someone wrote she exits through a wall just proves that the ending doesn’t work on tour. 
 

and def curious how this plays Non-Eq. Without the house revolve it’s a pretty lame production. 

dan94 said: "I saw the tour a couple weeks ago. The cast was good. The production fine. I just don't think the show has aged well at all.

I enjoyed the movie a lot as a kid. Watching the tour I was aghast at how mean everyone was to Eliza. It never seems like she's fully mentally aware of what she's going through. I was watching a child on stage being turned into a dress up doll for Higgins. This is an interesting dynamic, but you're left at the end of the show with Higgins singing a love song, which is confusing and not precipitated. It didn't seem to me like Lerner and Loewe were telling the same story as Shaw.

 

If I may -- I don't see it that way at all. Eliza has agency and a voice and intelligence and a fierce will of her own. When people push her, she pushes back. She knows what she wants and she goes for it. 

We all view plays and movies in our own way. I get that. But I just had to say that it's so alien to me to ever think of Eliza as a child or a doll or someone mentally unaware of anything, when she's one of the fictional characters who taught me something about how to be strong.

You raise some good points. I think what happens is that she starts out with a stated goal -- she wants to learn to talk well so she can work in a florist's shop -- and then the goal shifts on her, leaving her unsure of what she can do and what she wants to do. So much changes for her over the course of the show, and she learns so much about herself and others and her society, that she doesn't know if the old goal still is or should be her goal. But she has a toughness and a self-reliance that lead me to think she will figure it out.