#my fair lady
Michael Evans and Lola Fisher bring a production of My Fair Lady to Moscow
(Carl Mydans. 1960)
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The story of Pygmalion and Galatea has resonated down through centuries of art and storytelling, but at its core it was always a little creepy. A man who can’t seem to find a “perfect” woman carves one and then magically this statue comes to life and they get married. It’s the kind of story that makes me give it a lot of side-eye because it seems rather like this statue lacked the ability to make any meaningful choices. What do you mean of course she had to choose her sculptor when she came to life? He made her, therefore of course he was owed her love? Come on. Pull the other one.
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) are the interpretation of this relationship modernized up to a turn of the 20th century London. Eliza is molded by a bet that Henry makes with his friend Colonel Pickering (ugh to this concept out of the gate) that he could make a guttersnipe pass as a duchess with the right diction and a rather charming and catchy musical proceeds to unfold despite itself. I still find the plot sinister, as Henry is not the kind of character that experiences personal growth and he never treats Eliza well. Eliza may be transformed in the course of the movie but no matter if she is a poor flower seller or elevated to a society woman, every iteration of her is too good for Henry Higgins. That it’s implied they get together in the end is a travesty.
I have some solace in the fact that the author of the play on which the movie is based agreed with me. George Bernard Shaw was adamant that Eliza not have a happy ever after with Higgins in the play because it completely negated the point of her transformation. Freddy Eynsford-Hill, who is a bit of a sap, is still the better choice for Eliza. Fie on the movie for getting it wrong! Down with Henry Higgins!
As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations - key NT actors, writers and directors answer the same ten questions about the National in a series of special National Histories Platforms.
First up, Nancy Carroll and Alex Jennings reflect on the National’s history and talk about their favourite NT performances, what productions they wish they had seen and their unsung heroes.
Audrey HepburninCecil Beaton portraits for My Fair Lady. The bottom one is a commonly used picture and the one above it is an outtake from the shoot.
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My Fair Lady - Wouldn’t It Be Loverly
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Wouldn’t It Be Loverly❔☺️
[Full] 2018 Tony Award’s Red Carpet - Part 1:
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2018 Tony Awards Backstage with the Winners
Backstage interviews with the 2018 Tony Award winners.
All clips from The Tony Award’s Facebook.
Zoë Kravitz channeling Audrey Hepburn
MY FAIR LADY, 1964; CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)
Audrey Hepburn, 1963
There’ll be spring every year without you, England still will be here without you, There’ll be fruit on the tree and a shore by the sea. There’ll be crumpets and tea without you. Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you. And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain. Even that will remain without you. I can do.. without you. You, dear friend who talk so well, you can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire they can still rule the land without you. Windsor Castle will stand without you. And without much ado we can all muddle through, without you! Without your pulling it the tide comes in. Without your twirling it the earth can spin. Without your pushing them the clouds roll by. If they can do without you, Ducky, so can I. I shall not feel alone without you. I can stand on my own without you. So go back in your shell, I can do bloody well.
My Fair Lady (1964), a film by George Cukor.
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