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Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Eliza (from Lisson Grove , London ) is a Cockney flower seller, who comes to Professor Henry Higgins asking for elocution lessons, after a chance encounter at Covent Garden .
My Fair Lady conta a história de Eliza Doolittle, uma mendiga que vende flores pelas ruas escuras de Londres em busca de uns trocados. Em uma dessas rotineiras noites, Eliza conhece um culto professor de fonética Henry Higgins e sua incrível capacidade de descobrir muito sobre as pessoas apenas através de seus sotaques.
- Plot
- Characters and Original Broadway Cast
- Background
- Productions
- Critical Reception
- Principal Roles and Casting History
- Awards and Nominations
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Act I
In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. The noted phonetician Professor Henry Higgins encounters Eliza at Covent Garden and laments the vulgarity of her dialect ("Why Can't the English?"). Higgins also meets Colonel Pickering, another linguist, and invites him to stay as his houseguest. Eliza and her friends wonder what it would be like to live a comfortable life ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"). Eliza's dustman father, Alfred P. Doolittle, stops by the n...
Act II
The ball is a success; Karpathy has declared Eliza to be a Hungarian princess. Pickering and Higgins revel in their triumph ("You Did It"), failing to pay attention to Eliza. Eliza is insulted at receiving no credit for her success, packing up and leaving the Higgins house. As she leaves she finds Freddy, who begins to tell her how much he loves her, but she tells him that she has heard enough words; if he really loves her, he should show it ("Show Me"). Eliza and Freddy return to Covent Gard...
The original cast of the Broadway stage production: 1. Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flowerseller – Julie Andrews 2. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics – Rex Harrison 3. Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's father, a dustman – Stanley Holloway 4. Colonel Hugh Pickering, Henry Higgins's friend and fellow phoneticist – Robert Coote 5. Mrs. Higgins, H...
In the mid-1930s, film producer Gabriel Pascal acquired the rights to produce film versions of several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, Pygmalion among them. However, Shaw, having had a bad experience with The Chocolate Soldier, a Viennese operetta based on his play Arms and the Man, refused permission for Pygmalion to be adapted into a musical. Aft...
Original Broadway production
The musical had its pre-Broadway tryout at New Haven's Shubert Theatre. At the first preview Rex Harrison, who was unaccustomed to singing in front of a live orchestra, "announced that under no circumstances would he go on that night...with those thirty-two interlopers in the pit". He locked himself in his dressing room and came out little more than an hour before curtain time. The whole company had been dismissed but were recalled, and opening night was a success. My Fair Lady then played fo...
Original London production
The West End production, in which Harrison, Andrews, Coote, and Holloway reprised their roles, opened on April 30, 1958, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, where it ran for five and a half years (2,281 performances). Edwardian musical comedy star Zena Dare made her last appearance in the musical as Mrs. Higgins. Leonard Weirplayed Freddy. Harrison left the London cast in March 1959, followed by Andrews in August 1959 and Holloway in October 1959.
1970s revivals
The first Broadway revival opened at the St. James Theatre 20 years after the original, on March 25, 1976, and ran there until December 5, 1976; it then transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, running from December 9, 1976, until it closed on February 20, 1977, after a total of 377 performances and 7 previews. The director was Jerry Adler, with choreography by Crandall Diehl, based on the original choreography by Hanya Holm. Ian Richardson starred as Higgins, with Christine Andreas as Eliza...
According to Geoffrey Block, "Opening night critics immediately recognized that My Fair Lady fully measured up to the Rodgers and Hammerstein model of an integrated musical ... Robert Coleman ... wrote 'The Lerner-Loewe songs are not only delightful, they advance the action as well. They are ever so much more than interpolations, or interruptions.'...
Notable replacements
Broadway (1956–1962) 1. Eliza: Sally Ann Howes 2. Higgins: Michael Allinson, Bramwell Fletcher, Tom Hellmore, Larry Keith, Edward Mulhare 3. Pickering: Melville Cooper, Reginald Denny West End (1958–1963) 1. Eliza: Anne Rogers 2. Higgins: Alec Clunes, Charles Stapley 3. Alfred P. Doolittle: James Hayter West End (2001–2003) 1. Eliza: Joanna Riding, Laura Michelle Kelly 2. Higgins: Alex Jennings, Anthony Andrews 3. Freddy: Michael Xavier Broadway revival (2018–2019) 1. Eliza: Laura Benanti 2....
Original Broadway production
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1976 Broadway revival
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1979 London revival
Source: Olivier Awards
1964 film
George Cukor directed the 1964 film adaptation, with Harrison returning in the role of Higgins. The casting of Audrey Hepburn as Eliza created controversy among theatregoers, both because Andrews was regarded as perfect in the part and because Hepburn's singing voice was dubbed (by Marni Nixon). Jack L. Warner, the head of Warner Bros., wanted "a star with a great deal of name recognition", but since Andrews did not have any film experience, he deemed success more likely with an established m...
Cancelled 2008 film
Columbia Pictures planned a new adaptation in 2008. By 2011, John Madden had been signed to direct the film, and Emma Thompsonhad written a new screenplay, but the studio had shelved it by 2014.
Citron, David (1995). The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508386-5Garebian, Keith (1998). The Making of My Fair Lady, Mosaic Press. ISBN 0-88962-653-7Green, Benny, Editor (1987). A Hymn to Him : The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0-87910-109-1Jablonski, Edward (1996). Alan Jay Lerner: A Biography, Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 0-8050-4076-5My Fair Lady at the Internet Broadway DatabaseBudget. $17 million [2] Box office. $72.7 million [2] 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. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named ...
Drama Family Musical. In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society. Director. George Cukor. Writers. Alan Jay Lerner. George Bernard Shaw. Stars. Audrey Hepburn. Rex Harrison. Stanley Holloway. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY.
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- 1964-12-25
Higgins must take Eliza in and endeavor to turn her into a proper lady in six months by teaching her to speak well– so well that she could be mistaken for a princess. Personality… blunt, practical, and responsible.
17 de fev. de 2010 · Subscribed. 16K. 1.8M views 14 years ago. Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in the witty musical "My Fair Lady". The story unfolds as Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) makes a bet...
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