So, I grew up loving the musical My Fair Lady. However, after reading Pygmalion (the play written that My Fair Lady was produced from), I realize that the love story I enjoyed is, in fact, not the same.
Audrey Hepburn is so beautiful as Liza Doolittle and I was CERTAIN that she and Professor Higgins (played by Rex Harrison) got married in the future/post musical. Alas, the musical and the play diverge in an important aspect...and I believe there is more to the story through the play than displayed through the musical.
I truly enjoyed there being more to Liza than just falling after a man who doesn't treat her well. Sure, he's rich. Sure, she can probably pretty much exist without a thought of her interactions with Higgins, except the fact that she would SETTLE! There is no need (for man or woman) to settle. A marriage should only occur between two people who truly love each other and want to honor and respect each other and follow through. I think too often this is not the case and it ends in disappointing marriages (uh, see Madame Bovary!) and divorces.
Liza, as portrayed through the original author of George Bernard Shaw, truly has an awakening not only of her potential for financial and class distinction, but her own self worth as a woman. I much prefer Pygmalion's Liza to My Fair Lady's Liza, though I was quite infatuated with the story since I was a little girl.
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