When Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering take a common flower girl off the streets and attempt to pass her off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party, the comic hi-jinks ensue in this poignant masterpiece by George Bernard Shaw that led to the smash Broadway success, "My Fair Lady. Pygmalion sees Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle turned into a society lady A theatre has put a coercive control trigger warning on the play that inspired musical romance My Fair Lady. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion / My Fair Lady. Reworked and set in the Mad Men style of 1960, this fun and funny retelling of the conversion of Eliza Doolittle from draggletailed guttersnipe to elegant lady is sure to delight. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another. Based upon the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion who fell in love with his own statue of a woman, George Bernard Shaws.
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