My Fair Lady by Chatsworth Players - REVIEW
Spring 2024 My Fair Lady CHATSWORTH PLAYERS Background Professor Higgins of Walpole Street, London, teaches phonetics. He claims that he can identify where people are from and where the influences originate in regard to the quirks of speech and language they have adopted. Therefore, when Higgins meets the young, Eliza Doolittle, a flower seller with a strong Cockney accent, he treats her like a social experiment. He believes that he can raise her position in London society if she were to lose the dialect and pronounce her vowels and enunciate her use of English language 'properly'. My Fair Lady is a hugely popular musical first performed in 1956 with music composition by Loewe and book/lyrics by Lerner (Lerner & Loewe), a long running Broadway show also a famous Warner Bros. film (1964). This story of Eliza and Professor Higgins however, originates from the play Pygmalion (published 1912) written by playwright George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion for all intents and purposes i