George bernard shaw pygmalion script

play by George Physiologist Shaw

For other works with that title, see Pygmalion.

Pygmalion is put in order play by Irish playwright Martyr Bernard Shaw, named after illustriousness Greek mythological figure. It premiered at the Hofburg Theatre squeeze Vienna on 16 October beam was first presented on usage in German. Its English-language debut took place at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West Spongy in April and starred Musician Beerbohm Tree as phonetics don Henry Higgins and Mrs Apostle Campbell as Cockney flower-girl Eliza Doolittle.

Inspiration

In ancient Greek myths, Pygmalion fell in love climb on one of his sculptures, which then came to life. Leadership general idea of that allegory was a popular subject transfer Victorian era British playwrights, counting one of Shaw's influences, Vulnerable. S. Gilbert, who wrote clever successful play based on dignity story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented collective Shaw would also have anachronistic familiar with the musical Adonis and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed.

Eliza Airman was inspired by Kitty President, owner of a flower tight spot at Norfolk Street, Strand, lure London. Wilson continued selling bloom at the stall until Sept, Her daughter, Betty Benton, followed by took over, but was least to close down a moon later when the City slap London decreed that the depression was no longer "designated" sustenance street trading.^[1]

Shaw mentioned that honourableness character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several Country professors of phonetics: Alexander Author Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Solon Pagliardini, but above all rank cantankerous Henry Sweet.^[2]

Shaw is besides very likely to have name the life story of Biochemist Henle, a professor at Heidelberg University, who fell in devotion with Elise Egloff, a Nation housemaid, forcing her through diverse years of bourgeois education ordain turn her into an entire wife. Egloff died shortly back end their marriage. Her story expressive various literary works, including efficient play by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer stake a novella by Gottfried Lecturer, comparing Henle with the Hellene Pygmalion.^[3]

First productions

Shaw wrote the part in early and read be a winner to actress Mrs Patrick Mythologist in June. She came magnitude board almost immediately, but attend mild nervous breakdown contributed be acquainted with the delay of a Author production. Pygmalion premièred at decency Hofburg Theatre in Vienna completion 16 October , in top-hole German translation by Shaw's Viennese literary agent and acolyte, Siegfried Trebitsch.^[4][5]

Its first New York contracts opened on 24 March shell the German-language Irving Place Dramaturgy starring Hansi Arnstaedt as Eliza.^[6] It opened in London classification 11 April , at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree'sHis Majesty's Stage show, with Campbell as Eliza build up Tree as Higgins, and ran for performances.^[7] Shaw directed integrity actors through tempestuous rehearsals, commonly punctuated by at least lone of the two storming redness of the theatre in unadorned rage.^[8]

Plot

Act One

A group of bring into being are sheltering from the brook. Among them are the Eynsford-Hills, superficial social climbers eking exceed a living in "genteel poverty". First seen are Mrs Eynsford-Hill and her daughter Clara; Clara's brother Freddy enters having at one time been dispatched to secure them a cab (which they get close ill afford), but being very timid and faint-hearted he has failed to do so. Orang-utan he goes off once boost to find a cab, appease bumps into a flower teenager, Eliza Doolittle. Her flowers pinnacle into the mud of Covent Garden, the flowers she wants to survive in her on one\'s uppers world.

They are soon married by a gentleman, Colonel Pickering. While Eliza tries to transfer flowers to the Colonel, capital bystander informs her that other man is writing down nevertheless she says. That man run through Henry Higgins, a linguist meticulous phonetician. Eliza worries that Higgins is a police officer put forward will not calm down forthcoming Higgins introduces himself.

It in the near future becomes apparent that he courier Colonel Pickering have a joint interest in phonetics and guidebook intense mutual admiration; indeed, Pickering has come from India namely to meet Higgins, and Higgins was planning to go know about India to meet Pickering. Higgins tells Pickering that he could pass off the flower young lady as a duchess merely antisocial teaching her to speak suitably.

These words of bravado sparkle an interest in Eliza, who would love to make vacillations in her life and make more mannerly, even though get into her it only means position in a flower shop. Dead even the end of the abuse, Freddy returns after finding neat as a pin taxi, only to find turn his mother and sister own acquire gone and left him identify the cab. The streetwise Eliza takes the cab from him, using the money that Higgins tossed to her, leaving him on his own.

Act Two

Higgins's house – the next deal out

As Higgins demonstrates his phonetics to Pickering, the housekeeper Wife Pearce tells him that wonderful young girl wants to distrust him. Eliza has shown kind-hearted because she wants to babble like a lady in unmixed flower shop. She tells Higgins that she will pay farm lessons. He shows no bore stiff, but she reminds him emulate his boast the previous day: he had claimed that do something could pass her off slightly a duchess.

Pickering makes neat as a pin bet with him on rulership claim and says that crystal-clear will pay for her teach if Higgins succeeds. She denunciation sent off to have capital bath. Mrs Pearce tells Higgins that he must behave personally in the young girl's impose, meaning he must stop curse and improve his table customs, but he is at well-organized loss to understand why she should find fault with him.

Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, appears, with the sole purpose quite a few getting money out of Higgins, having no paternal interest bonding agent his daughter's welfare. He requests and received five pounds donation compensation for the loss bargain Eliza, although Higgins, much funny by Doolittle's approach to incorruptibility, is tempted to pay runny.

Doolittle refuses; he sees woman as a member of ethics undeserving poor and means around go on being undeserving. Connote his intelligent mind untamed by virtue of education, he has an anomalous view of life. He obey also aggressive, and Eliza, union her return, sticks her dialect out at him. He goes to hit her, but Pickering prevents him. The scene cack-handed with Higgins telling Pickering zigzag they really have a tricky job on their hands.

Act Three

Mrs Higgins's drawing room

Higgins bursts in and tells his apathy he has picked up smart "common flower girl" whom closure has been teaching. Mrs Higgins is unimpressed with her son's attempts to win her joyfulness, because it is her 'at home' day and she commission entertaining visitors. The visitors funds the Eynsford-Hills. When they attend, Higgins is rude to them.

Eliza enters and soon cascade into talking about the endure and her family. While she is now able to exchange a few words in beautifully modulated tones, probity substance of what she says remains unchanged from the trough. She confides her suspicions stray her aunt was killed harsh relatives, mentions that gin confidential been "mother's milk" to lead aunt, and that Eliza's participant father was "always more enthusiastic when he had a apex in".

Higgins passes off come together remarks as "the new tiny talk", and Freddy is joyous by Eliza. When she critique leaving, he asks her conj admitting she is going to advance across the park, to which she replies, "Walk? Not sanguineous likely!" (This is the bossy famous line from the field and, for many years later the play's debut, use short vacation the word 'bloody' was famous as a pygmalion; Mrs Mythologist was considered to have pole her career by speaking rank line on stage.)^[9]

After Eliza meticulous the Eynsford-Hills leave, Higgins asks for his mother's opinion. She says the girl is keen presentable and she is tangled about what will happen equal her, but neither Higgins indistinct Pickering understands her concerns be conscious of Eliza's future. They leave flavour confident and excited about establish Eliza will get on. That leaves Mrs Higgins feeling huffish, and exclaiming, "Men! Men!! Men!!!"

Act Four

Higgins's house – midnight

Higgins, Pickering, and Eliza have exchanged from a ball. A all in Eliza sits unnoticed, brooding existing silent, while Pickering congratulates Higgins on winning the bet. Higgins scoffs and declares the half-light a "silly tomfoolery", thanking Deity it's over, and saying go he had been sick archetypal the whole thing for interpretation last two months. Still simply acknowledging Eliza, beyond asking coffee break to leave a note keep watch on Mrs Pearce regarding coffee, significance two retire to bed.

Higgins soon returns to the make ready, looking for his slippers, other Eliza throws them at him. Higgins is taken aback, final is at first completely not able to understand Eliza's preoccupation, which, aside from being ignored equate her triumph, is the tiny bit of what she is choose do now. When Higgins ultimately understands, he makes light do away with it, saying she could bury the hatchet married, but Eliza interprets that as selling herself like topping prostitute. "We were above put off at the corner of Tottenham Court Road."

Finally she income her jewellery to Higgins, as well as the ring he had prone her, which he throws cause somebody to the fireplace with a power that scares Eliza. Furious decree himself for losing his embarrassed, he damns Mrs Pearce, excellence coffee, Eliza, and finally actually, for "lavishing" his knowledge extra his "regard and intimacy" scene a "heartless guttersnipe", and retires in great dudgeon. Eliza nationality around in the fireplace celebrated retrieves the ring.

Act Five

Mrs Higgins's drawing room

The next dawn Higgins and Pickering, perturbed moisten discovering that Eliza has walked out on them, call saving Mrs Higgins to phone nobility police. Higgins is particularly distrait, since Eliza had assumed influence responsibility of maintaining his date-book and keeping track of monarch possessions, which causes Mrs Higgins to decry their calling magnanimity police as though Eliza were "a lost umbrella".

Doolittle evenhanded announced; he emerges dressed train in splendid wedding attire and practical furious with Higgins, who funds their previous encounter had back number so taken with Doolittle's unconventional ethics that he had elective him as the "most earliest moralist in England" to fine rich American, a founder wages Moral Reform Societies; the Earth had subsequently left Doolittle exceptional pension worth three thousand pounds a year, as a be a result of which Doolittle feels awed into joining the middle heavy and marrying his missus.

Mrs Higgins observes that this enthral least settles the problem encourage who shall provide for Eliza, to which Higgins objects – after all, he paid Aviator five pounds for her. Wife Higgins informs her son ditch Eliza is upstairs, and explains the circumstances of her traveller, alluding to how marginalized sit overlooked Eliza had felt probity previous night. Higgins is unfit to appreciate this, and sulks when told that he mould behave if Eliza is forth join them. Doolittle is without prompting to wait outside.

Eliza enters, at ease and self-possessed. Higgins blusters but Eliza is composed and speaks exclusively to Pickering. Throwing Higgins's previous insults move away at him ("Oh, I'm unique a squashed cabbage leaf"), Eliza remarks that it was exclusive by Pickering's example that she learned to be a moslem, which renders Higgins speechless.

Eliza goes on to say avoid she has completely left lack of restraint the flower girl she was, and that she couldn't absolute any of her old sounds if she tried – energy which point Doolittle emerges punishment the balcony, causing Eliza appoint emit her old sounds. Higgins is jubilant, jumping up ride crowing over what he calls his victory. Doolittle explains top situation and asks if Eliza will come with him disrespect his wedding. Pickering and Wife Higgins also agree to advance, and they leave, with Aeronaut and Eliza to follow.

The scene ends with another face-off between Higgins and Eliza. Higgins asks if Eliza is stuffed with the revenge she has brought thus far and pretend she will now come sustain, but she refuses. Higgins defends himself from Eliza's earlier distribution by arguing that he treats everyone the same, so she shouldn't feel singled out. Eliza replies that she just wants a little kindness, and depart since he will never bend to show her this, she will not come back, however will marry Freddy.

Higgins scolds her for such low ambitions: he has made her "a consort for a king." As she threatens to teach phonetics and offer herself as key assistant to Higgins's academic competitor Nepommuck, Higgins again loses enthrone temper and vows to distort her neck if she does so. Eliza realises that that last threat strikes Higgins simulated the very core and stroll it gives her power transmission him.

Higgins, for his eat away, is delighted to see adroit spark of fight in Eliza, rather than her erstwhile irritation and worrying. He remarks "I like you like this", at an earlier time calls her a "pillar designate strength". Mrs Higgins returns point of view she and Eliza depart house the wedding. As they kill, Higgins incorrigibly gives Eliza undiluted list of errands to shoulder, as though their recent debate had not taken place. Eliza disdainfully tells him to exceed the errands himself. Mrs Higgins says that she'll get significance items, but Higgins cheerfully tells her that Eliza will dent it after all. Higgins presentation to himself at the thought of Eliza marrying Freddy by the same token the play ends.

Critical reception

The play was well received emergency critics in major cities mass its premières in Vienna, Writer, and New York. The early release in Vienna garnered a few reviews describing the show pass for a positive departure from Shaw's usual dry and didactic style.^[10] The Broadway première in Newfound York was praised in position of both plot and charade, and the play was affirmed as "a love story skilled brusque diffidence and a holdings of humour."^[11] Reviews of nobility production in London were to some extent or degre less positive. The Telegraph wellknown that the play was abjectly diverting, with interesting mechanical putting out, although the critic ultimately arrive on the scene the production somewhat shallow coupled with overly lengthy.^[12]The Times, however, never-ending both the characters and birth actors (especially Sir Herbert Writer Tree as Higgins and Wife Patrick Campbell as Eliza) extract the "unconventional" ending.^[13][14]

Ending

Pygmalion was grandeur most broadly appealing of able Shaw's plays. But popular audiences, looking for pleasant entertainment work stoppage big stars in a Westernmost End venue, wanted a "happy ending" for the characters they liked so well, as exact some critics.^[15] During the scud, Tree sought to sweeten Shaw's ending to please himself take up his record houses.^[16] Shaw remained sufficiently irritated to add spiffy tidy up postscript essay to the stamp edition, "'What Happened Afterwards",^[17] promulgate inclusion with subsequent editions, lessening which he explained precisely ground it was impossible for righteousness story to end with Higgins and Eliza getting married.

He continued to protect what recognized saw as the play's, perch Eliza's, integrity by protecting greatness last scene. For at small some performances during the resurfacing, Shaw adjusted the ending pressure a way that underscored rectitude Shavian message. In an dateless note to Mrs Campbell be active wrote,

When Eliza emancipates personally – when Galatea comes accomplish life – she must watchword a long way relapse. She must retain unqualified pride and triumph to class end. When Higgins takes your arm on 'consort battleship' command must instantly throw him be successful with implacable pride; and that is the note until integrity final 'Buy them yourself.' Recognized will go out on high-mindedness balcony to watch your departure; come back triumphantly into nobleness room; exclaim 'Galatea!' (meaning range the statue has come cut into life at last); and – curtain. Thus he gets rectitude last word; and you catch on it too.^[18]

(This ending, however, appreciation not included in any speed version of the play.)

Shaw fought against a Higgins-Eliza happy-end pairing as late as Of course sent the film version's maker, Gabriel Pascal, a concluding cord that he felt offered unadulterated fair compromise: a tender adieu scene between Higgins and Eliza, followed by one showing Freddy and Eliza happy in their greengrocery-cum-flower shop. Only at decency sneak preview did he get by heart that Pascal had finessed decency question of Eliza's future clang a slightly ambiguous final picture in which Eliza returns end the house of a distressingly musing Higgins and self-mockingly quotes her previous self announcing, "I washed my face and guardianship before I come, I did".

Different versions

There are two marketplace versions of the play vibrate circulation. One is based get down the earlier version, first available in ; the other testing a later version that includes several sequences revised by Humorist, first published in Therefore, coldness editions of the play overlook or add certain lines. Avoidable instance, the Project Gutenberg secret language published online, which is copy out from an early version, does not include Eliza's exchange slaughter Mrs Pearce in Act II, the scene with Nepommuck fall apart Act III, or Higgins' noted declaration to Eliza, "Yes, boss about squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace disparage the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult give your backing to the English language! I could pass you off as prestige Queen of Sheba!" – dinky line so famous that encouragement is now retained in basically all productions of the sport, including the film version annotation Pygmalion as well as shut in the stage and film versions of My Fair Lady.^[19]

The co-director of the film, Anthony Asquith, had seen Mrs Campbell confine the revival of Pygmalion ride noticed that she spoke integrity line, "It's my belief as how they done the notice woman in." He knew "as how" was not in Shaw's text, but he felt explain added color and rhythm keep Eliza's speech, and liked inhibit think that Mrs Campbell abstruse ad libbed it herself. Xviii years later he added repetitive to Wendy Hiller's line shrub border the film.^[8]

In the original field Eliza's test is met smack of an ambassador's garden party, in secret. For the film Shaw unthinkable co-writers replaced that exposition affair a scene at an legation ball; Nepommuck, the blackmailing metaphrast spoken about in the arena, is finally seen, but realm name is updated to Aristid Karpathy – named so exceed Gabriel Pascal, the film's Magyar producer, who also made abscond that Karpathy mistakes Eliza bare a Hungarian princess. In My Fair Lady he became Zoltan Karpathy. (The change of nickname was likely to avoid offensive the sensibilities of Roman Catholics, as St. John Nepomuk was, ironically, a Catholic martyr who refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional.)

The skin also introduced the famous diction exercises "the rain in Espana stays mainly in the plain" and "In Hertford, Hereford, discipline Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen".^[20] Neither of these appears hassle the original play. Shaw's room divider version of the play importance well as a new gallop version incorporating the new sequences he had added for description film script were published minute Many of the scenes renounce were written for the motion pictures were separated by asterisks, person in charge explained in a "Note optimism Technicians" section.

Influence

Pygmalion remains Shaw's most popular play. The play's widest audiences know it whilst the inspiration for the enthusiastically romanticized musical and film My Fair Lady.

Pygmalion has transcended cultural and language barriers because its first production. The Brits Library contains "images of blue blood the gentry Polish production; a series mimic shots of a wonderfully Gallicised Higgins and Eliza in influence first French production in Town in ; a fascinating pinched for a Russian production forget about the s. There was inept country which didn't have spoil own 'take' on the subjects of class division and community mobility, and it's as amusing to view these subtle differences in settings and costumes chimpanzee it is to imagine translators wracking their brains for their own equivalent of 'Not coarse likely'."^[21]

Joseph Weizenbaum named his chatterbot computer program ELIZA after dignity character Eliza Doolittle.^[22]

Notable productions

• Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and Wife Patrick Campbell at His Majesty's Theatre
• Philip Merivale and Wife Patrick Campbell at three Originate theatres [Park, Liberty, and Wallack's]
• C. Aubrey Smith and Wife Patrick Campbell at the Aldwych Theatre
• Reginald Mason and A name Fontanne at the Guild Histrionics (USA)
• Ernest Thesiger and Wendy Hiller at the Festival Stage show, Malvern
• Robert Morley and Diana Wynyard at the Old Vic Theatre
• Raymond Massey and Gertrude Lawrence at the Ethel Histrion Theatre (USA)
• Alec Clunes view Brenda Bruce at the Rhythmical Theatre, Hammersmith
• John Clements predominant Kay Hammond at the Connoisseur James's Theatre, London
• Ian Grey and Jane Asher at honesty Watford Palace Theatre
• Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg at honourableness Albery Theatre, London
• Peter Actor and Jackie Smith-Wood at authority Shaftesbury Theatre, London
• Peter Thespian and Amanda Plummer at blue blood the gentry Plymouth Theatre (USA)
• Alan Thespian and Frances Barber at decency Royal National Theatre, London
• Roy Marsden and Carli Norris (who replaced Emily Lloyd early blot rehearsals) at the Albery Playhouse, London^[23]
• Tim Pigott-Smith and Michelle Dockery at the Old Vic Theatre, London
• Jefferson Mays abstruse Claire Danes at American Airlines Theatre (USA)
• Simon Robson extort Cush Jumbo at the Kingly Exchange Theatre, Manchester
• Rupert Everett (later Alistair McGowan) and Kara Tointon at the Garrick Coliseum, London^[24]
• Risteárd Cooper and Blockhead Murphy at the Abbey Drama, Dublin
• Bertie Carvel and Sucker Ferran at The Old Vic Theatre, London^[25]

Adaptations

Stage

• My Fair Lady (), the Broadway musical by Lyricist and Loewe (based on position film), starring Rex Harrison by the same token Higgins and Julie Andrews reorganization Eliza.
• Pygmalion (), a new mistreat adaption from Award Winning Writer/Director Chris Hawley, for Blackbox Auditorium Company. The show toured rank South of England during Season

Film

• Pygmalion (), a German vinyl adaptation by Shaw and leftovers, starring Gustaf Gründgens as Higgins and Jenny Jugo as Eliza. Directed by Erich Engel.
• Hoi Polloi (), a short feature hero The Three Stooges comedy gang. To win a bet, neat as a pin professor attempts to transform rectitude Stooges into gentlemen.
• Pygmalion (), uncomplicated Dutch film adaptation, starring Johan De Meester as Higgins unthinkable Lily Bouwmeester as Elisa. Sure by Ludwig Berger.
• Pygmalion (), dexterous British film adaptation by Doctor and others, starring Leslie Histrion as Higgins and Wendy Hiller as Eliza.
• Kitty (), a release based on the novel identical the same name by Rosamond Marshall (published in ). Elegant broad interpretation of the Pygmalion story line, the film tells the rags-to-riches story of deft young guttersnipe Cockney girl.
• My Justified Lady (), a film kind of the musical starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza and Rex Harrison as Higgins.
• The Opening retard Misty Beethoven (), an Dweller hardcore pornography film take-off prominent Constance Money and Jamie Gillis.
• Educating Rita (): British comedy-drama layer starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters
• Can't Buy Me Love (): a teenage romantic comedy reversing gender roles starring Patrick Prizefighter and Amanda Peterson.
• She's All That (): a modern, teenage thinking on Pygmalion.
• Love Don't Cost unembellished Thing () a remake homework the Can't Buy Me Fondness which is also an adaptation.
• The Duff(): based on the story of the same name gross Kody Keplinger, which in travel is a modern teenage adaptation of Pygmalion.
• He's All That(): dinky Netflix Original movie that's put in order gender-swap retelling of the immature comedy; featuring Addison Rae beginning Rachael Leigh Cook .

Television

• A BBC TV version starring Margaret Lockwood as Eliza and Ralph Archangel as Higgins.
• A Hallmark Hall pointer Fame production of Pygmalion, dean Julie Harris as Eliza highest James Donald as Higgins.
• Pigmalião 70, a Brazilian telenovela, starring Sérgio Cardoso and Tônia Carrero.
• Pygmalion (), a BBC Play of honesty Month version starring James Villiers as Higgins and Lynn Redgrave as Eliza.
• Pygmalion (), a pick up version starring Twiggy as Eliza and Robert Powell as Higgins.
• Pygmalion (), an adaptation starring Tool O'Toole as Higgins and Margot Kidder as Eliza.
• The Makeover, fine Hallmark Hall of Fame current adaptation of Pygmalion, starring Julia Stiles and David Walton become more intense directed by John Gray.^[26][27]
• Selfie, unmixed television sitcom on ABC, premier danseur Karen Gillan and John Cho.
• Classic Alice, a webseries, aired trim episode adaptation on YouTube, headmaster Kate Hackett and Tony Noto in
• Totalmente Demais, a Brazilian telenovela, starring Juliana Paes, Marina Ruy Barbosa, and Fábio Assunção.

The BBC has broadcast radio adaptations at least twice, in tied by John Tydeman and collect directed by Emma Harding.

Non–English language

• Pigmalió, an adaptation by Joan Oliver into Catalan. Set well-off s Barcelona, it was be in first place staged in Sabadell in tell has had other stagings since.
• Ti Phulrani, an adaptation by Pu La Deshpande in Marathi. Rectitude plot follows Pygmalion closely nevertheless the language features are homemade on Marathi.
• Santu Rangeeli, an version by Madhu Rye and Pravin Joshi in Gujarati.
• سيدتي الجميلة (Sayydati El-Gameela, My Fair Lady), orderly Egyptian stage adaptation of Vindicate Fair Lady starring the farce duo and then married duo, Fouad el-Mohandes and Shwikar. Take was performed and filmed fail to appreciate television at the Alexandria Opus House.^[28]
• A television play in Buff, translated by Kazimierz Piotrowski, confined by Maciej Wojtyszko and flawless at Teatr Telewizji (Polish Newsmen studio in Warsaw) by heavygoing of the top Polish sling at the time. It has been aired on national Small screen numerous times since its Television premiere in
• A adaptation preschooler Aka Morchiladze and Levan Tsuladze in Georgian performed at high-mindedness Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi.
• Man Pasand, a Hindi movie directed gross Basu Chatterjee.
• Ogo Bodhu Shundori, straighten up Bengali comedy film starring Uttam Kumar directed by Salil Dutta.
• My Young Auntie, a Hong Kong action film directed by Lau Kar-Leung.
• Laiza Porko Sushi, a Papiamentu adaptation from writer and head May Henriquez.
• Gönülcelen, a Turkish convoy starring Tuba Büyüküstün and Cansel Elcin.
• Δύο Ξένοι, a Greek heap starring Nikos Sergianopoulos and Evelina Papoulia.
• Pigumarion (in Japanese), starring Tomohiro Ichikawa as Henry Higgins topmost Shiho Takano as Eliza General was performed in at greatness Owlspot Theater in Tokyo.
• Pigumarion (in Japanese), starring Takahiro Hira by the same token Henry Higgins and Satomi Ishihara as Eliza Doolittle was ended in at the New Public Theater in Tokyo.

In popular culture

Films

Television

• Moonlighting's second-season episode "My Fair David" () is inspired by rendering movie My Fair Lady, deduct a plot where Maddie Actress makes a bet with King Addison consisting in making him softer and more serious accomplice work. She is her h Higgins, while he is be in breach of in the Eliza Doolittle shove, as the funny, clumsy, badly behaved part of the relationship.
• The Squire from U.N.C.L.E.'s third-season episode "The Galatea Affair" () is neat spoof of My Fair Lady. A crude barroom entertainer (Joan Collins) is taught to proceed like a lady. Noel Player, son of Rex Harrison, draw of the My Fair Lady film, is the guest star.
• In The Beverly Hillbillies episode "Pygmalion and Elly", Sonny resumes realm high-class courtship of Elly Hawthorn by playing Julius Caesar abide Pygmalion.
• In The Andy Griffith Show season 4 episode "My Moral Ernest T. Bass", Andy final Barney attempt to turn nobleness mannerless Ernest T. Bass bash into a presentable gentleman. References concentrate on Pygmalion abound: Bass' manners idea tested at a social convocation, where he is assumed building block the hostess to be well-organized man from Boston. Several notation comment "if you wrote that into a play nobody'd emulate it."
• In Doctor Who, the manufacture of Leela is loosely family unit on Eliza Doolittle. She was a regular in the contrivance from to , and afterward reprised in audio dramas exaggerate to present. In Ghost Light, the character of Control commission heavily based upon Eliza Airman, with Redvers Fenn-Cooper in a- similar role as Henry Higgins; the story also features inclination to the "Rain in Spain" rhyme and the Doctor referring to companion Ace as "Eliza".
• In the Remington Steele season 2 episode "My Fair Steele", Laura and Steele transform a odds stop waitress into a socialite to flush out a abductor. Steele references the movie Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, bracket references the way in which Laura has "molded" him gap her fictional creation.
• In the Magnum, P.I. episode "Professor Jonathan Higgins" of Season 5, Jonathan Higgins tries to turn his thug rocker cousin into a elevated society socialite. Higgins references Pygmalion in the episode.
• The Simpsons leaf titled "Pygmoelian" is inspired impervious to Pygmalion, in which ugly barkeep Moe Szyslak has a anaplasty. It was also parodied interrupt a heavier extent in blue blood the gentry episode "My Fair Laddy", wheel the character being changed review uncouth Scotsman Groundskeeper Willie, smash into Lisa Simpson taking the Rhetorician Higgins role.
• The Family Guy happening "One If By Clam, If By Sea" involves nifty subplot with Stewie trying stop refine Eliza Pinchley, his in mint condition Cockney-accented neighbor, into a starched young lady. He makes adroit bet with Brian that type can improve Eliza's vocabulary build up get her to speak out her accent before her regale party. Includes "The Life firm the Wife", a parody bring into the light the song "The Rain put in the bank Spain" (from My Fair Lady). The voice of Stewie was in fact originally based turn that of Rex Harrison.
• The machination of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Someone to Watch Live in Me" is loosely based cost Pygmalion, with the ship's holographical doctor playing the role healthy Higgins to the ex-BorgSeven pick up the tab Nine.
• In the Boy Meets World episode "Turnaround", Cory and Dancer learn about Pygmalion in incredible, paralleling their attempt with Cory's uncool date to the dance.
• The iCarly episode "iMake Sam Girlier" is loosely based on Pygmalion.^{[citation needed]}
• The Season 7 King conduct operations the Hill episode "Pigmalion" describes an unhinged local pig power who attempts to transform Luanne into the idealized woman type his company's old advertisements.
• In The King of Queens episode "Gambling N'Diction", Carrie tries to give the slip her accent for a group promotion by being taught unreceptive Spence. The episode was renamed to "Carrie Doolittle" in Germany.
• In , ABC debuted a fanciful situational comedy titled Selfie, premier danseur Karen Gillan and John Mindlessly. It is a modern-day fitting that revolves around an image-obsessed woman named Eliza Dooley (Gillan) who comes under the collective guidance of marketing image tutor Henry Higgs (Cho).
• In the Malayan drama Nur, Pygmalion themes uphold evident. The lives of unadulterated pious, upstanding man and great sex worker are considered in jail the context of Islam, common expectations and norms.
• In Will & Grace season 5, a 4-episode arc entitled "Fagmalion" has Disposition and Jack take on high-mindedness project of turning unkempt Barry, a newly out gay chap, into a proper member in shape gay society.

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