Word: pygmalion
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...western with an awkward book and a rousing score. Lerner, meanwhile, had been moonlighting on his partnership with Loewe, won an Oscar for the movie, An American in Paris. The partners came together again in 1954 to see if a musical could be made from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. The answer, 19 months later, was My Fair Lady the best and most successful American musical ever written. It has grossed $40 million so far, is now in its fifth year on Broadway, its third in London, and shows no signs of slowing down...
...composers. In Germany the modernists use the voice as another instrument, seldom giving importance to the word. Italians want to under stand what's going on." The biggest hit of the festival last week was the world première of a 143-year-old one-acter titled Pygmalion, composed not by a modern twelve-toner but by a talented local boy named Gaetano Donizetti. Written in 1817, when Donizetti was 19, the forgotten opera was rediscovered by Missiroli in an orchestrated version in a box of manuscripts found in Donizetti's house in Bergamo. Equipped with...
...title suggests, Getting Married is about men and women and the relations that subsist between them as such, Man and Superman and Pygmalion show what Shaw could sometimes do with this theme; here he treats it so as to expose one of his most celebrated deficiencies. I do not, like certain critics, hold a personal grudge against Shaw for not being D. H. Lawrence; but I do think it was a mistake to contrive a dramatic discussion of marriage in which the sexual urge is ignored almost as resolutely as in a Victorian novel...
...Campbell could be impossible, but tough Playwright Shaw could at times seem inhuman. These were love letters without a love affair; as Stella Campbell said, she and G.B.S. were two "lustless lions at play." And for every coo there was a not-always-brilliant snarl. When she first read Pygmalion, she sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less than his turn for didacticism. Where she was always losing her temper...
...suffers from is less Shaw as lover than Shaw as letter writer, a role in which he falls far short of the dramatist. Things perk up when the stars can get their teeth into something theatrical rather than into each other, as when they go over a scene from Pygmalion. But the stars are not quite wedded to their parts. Unfailingly gracious, Actress Cornell seems too gentle and Actor Aherne seems somehow too jaunty...