| re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 08:59 am EDT 03/25/21 | |
| In reply to: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' - WaymanWong 02:51 am EDT 03/25/21 | |
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| Bernard Shaw is much smarter than TCM. There is NOTHING to apologize about in Pygmalion, or My Fair Lady. Working with Bob Fosse or Jerry Robbins would be much more difficult than Eliza and Henry Higgins. Those marbles in the mouth? Shaw is making a very witty reference to the pebbles of Demosthenes - the first figure who used this technique to correct his speech. Higgins, if nothing else, is a classicist. I had a speech issue growing up, and I was lucky that my school district had a speech therapist on staff. Although I may have felt occasionally bullied by her methods over the two years it took to solve my issue, solved it was. And we remained great, lifelong friends as it turned out. Maybe because she used puppets as part of her therapy and we did little plays. And here I am all those decades later working on Broadway and the West End. Sans impediment. | |
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