The tangled history of the ending to George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" and Lerner and Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady". Should Higgins and Eliza get together at the end?
Sources and further reading:
Shaw's recollections of "Pygmalion" rehearsals, including a hilarious anecdote about Tree getting beaned in the face with the slippers which I had to cut for time: archive.org/details/herbertbe...
"The Ending of 'Pygmalion': A Structural View", by Stanley J. Solomon: www.jstor.org/stable/3204379
The news article about Pascal getting the rights to "Pygmalion": trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
Alan Jay Lerner on "Pygmalion" and "My Fair Lady": www.jstor.org/stable/40681399
Shaw's original ending for the 1938 "Pygmalion": www.jstor.org/stable/40682253
Pygmalion script with postscript: www.gutenberg.org/files/3825/...
Full, public domain 1938 movie: • PYGMALION (1938) - Ful...
00:00 Intro
01:34 Pygmalion's Metamorphoses
03:18 Shavian Pygmalion
12:26 Pascal's Wager
15:00 What The Americans Did
20:35 What's To Become Of Me?
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