I consider Melissa Errico to be a friend (and she's a wonderful person) and after I saw the LCT production, I wrote to her and asked her what she had thought of the "controversial" ending. This was her reply:
"Our 1993 production had me return in an abstract space - all surrounded with blackness- and Higgins alone w one of his large scientific symbols (a large phrenological head).... as if to say ... that my return was potentially fantasized and not in reality... implying his aloneness ...His culpability in their separateness. A dream. Not necessarily a happy ending. So in some ways it was modernist, as much as we were allowed in those days. But I like that this 2018 production allowed the audience to focus on her feet, HER walking on & into her future."
I have not asked her (nor will I) about her relationship with Chamberlain. |
