| re: The Painstaking Detail That Went Into Lauren Ambrose’s My Fair Lady Hat | |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 02:26 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 02:25 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
| In reply to: re: The Painstaking Detail That Went Into Lauren Ambrose’s My Fair Lady Hat - singleticket 01:04 pm EDT 04/05/18 | |
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| True. The accent and the vocal placement for Eliza are clearly learnt by an American. But the sounds of Higgins and Pickering and Mrs Higgins work. Idle thought...I wonder if Cynthia Erivo got consideration for Eliza. She has more of the force-of-nature energy that Julie Andrews had. But maybe they were set on this soft-flower version of Eliza from the git-go. (Though I do hear that her interpretation works very well for the orchestra seats. She just never rises to the occasion Higgins demands of her...at least not as I see it...so her transformation seems simply one of accent and oufit rather than a transcendence of her self-pity, her passive-aggressive nature, and her undervaluing of herself. I do go on...Probably need to see it again....wondering too, tho, if the director really wanted to take men to task, isn’t the real “villain” of the piece Eliza’s father? An alcoholic absentee baby-daddy of the first order, a man has never valued his daughter for anything except for what money she can give him and then, later, is excited that he may profit from her as a prostitutable commodity. He’s the man whose type has enslaved her. Higgins, in his equality-consciousness, treating a duchess like a guttersnipe and vice-versa, teaches her what true love is (not romance but equal-love). |
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