chicagotribune.com: When watching "Pygmalion," it's never easy to get "My Fair Lady" our of your head. Alan Jay Lerner took his lyrical ideas right from the George Bernard Shaw verbiage in most instances, which is not atypical, but when you hear Henry Higgins tell Eliza Doolittle that he's "grown accustomed" to her "voice and appearance," or when the Cockney flower girl starts to splutter with rage at her self-interested mentor, songs start to play in the back of your skull.
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Whistling of My Fair Lady? Uneven Dialect work? It sounds like a predictable and even sloppy production of Pygmalion to me. Although I think Pygmalion is a difficult play to do with much relevancy these day. Mouzam Makkar as Eliza sounds interesting enough, and the gowns based off of her Indian heritage sound nice too, but I wonder how the play itself will truly stay relevant to social struggles in the future.
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