Forecast: Rain in Spain, No Chance of Song
Ben BrantleyOctober 19, 2007: It used to drive George Bernard Shaw crazy that theatergoers would leave his “Pygmalion” believing the play’s leading characters were destined for the altar. “Disgusting” was Shaw’s word for the notion of a postcurtain wedding for Prof. Henry Higgins, the irascible phoneticist, and Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl whom he teaches to talk proper.
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