In the original play, they do not end up together, she goes off and SPOILER starts her own elocution school. In the movie (which Shaw wrote) and in the musical, they do.
As I also loathe Henry Higgins, I much prefer the original play.
I have seen four stage versions of Pygmalion, the Howard movie, and a stage version of My Fair Lady, but never the movie of MFL. The problem with stage versions is that they're there and gone forever, so there's no point me telling you about the amazing performance of Eliza's father in the 2004 version at the Dome, or the great Pickering in London in 1987, because hey, live, over. Last year there was a local production of Arcadia and I went three times, including on the last night in a blizzard and as they were dancing at the end I could have believed that they kept on dancing in and out of time every night somewhere.
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As I also loathe Henry Higgins, I much prefer the original play.
I have seen four stage versions of Pygmalion, the Howard movie, and a stage version of My Fair Lady, but never the movie of MFL. The problem with stage versions is that they're there and gone forever, so there's no point me telling you about the amazing performance of Eliza's father in the 2004 version at the Dome, or the great Pickering in London in 1987, because hey, live, over. Last year there was a local production of Arcadia and I went three times, including on the last night in a blizzard and as they were dancing at the end I could have believed that they kept on dancing in and out of time every night somewhere.