Pygmalion and My Fair Lady

By George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner,

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This Greek legend is presented in two different formats--the original by Shaw and the musical play by Lerner.

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Elyce Helford

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I once played Henry Higgins' mother in a local theatrical production of My Fair Lady. I delighted in the music and in portraying (in a white wig and wrinkled make-up) the stern, wise Mrs. Higgins, even as I also wondered whether Higgins and Pickering were perhaps secretly a couple and if Eliza was asexual.

This made me want to read the play on which My Fair Lady is based, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. I did not get answers to my somewhat whimsical questions about sexuality, but I did see in even greater relief the turning of women into…

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