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Why My Fair Lady, a 70-year-old American musical based on a century-old British play, matters
Hubristic Henry Higgins, callow Eliza Doolittle, roles that have been performed thousands of times around the world. But in a slick, richly rendered new version of My Fair Lady, actors Craig Urbani ...
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My Fair Lady turns misogyny and classism on their head
On the face of it, the character first created by George Bernard Shaw for his 1912 play Pygmalion is not only a misogynist but also a bully who uses his superior vocabulary and proper diction to put ...