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Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady
Keith Garebian
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Description for Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady
Paperback. Series: The Fourth Wall. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 121 x 285 x 9. Weight in Grams: 100.
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him, The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him. - Henry George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own. Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to be supplanted by a comic opera was therefore unthinkable; yet Lerner and Loewe transformed it into My Fair Lady (1956), a musical that was to delight audiences and critics alike. By famously reversing Shaw's original ending, the show ... Read more
An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him, The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him. - Henry George Bernard Shaw famously refused to permit any play of his to be degraded into an operetta or set to any music except its own. Allowing his beloved Pygmalion to be supplanted by a comic opera was therefore unthinkable; yet Lerner and Loewe transformed it into My Fair Lady (1956), a musical that was to delight audiences and critics alike. By famously reversing Shaw's original ending, the show ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Fourth Wall
Condition
New
Number of Pages
92
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138960060
SKU
V9781138960060
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About Keith Garebian
Keith Garebian is a freelance literary and theatre critic, and an award-winning author and poet.
Reviews for Lerner and Loewe´s My Fair Lady
A distillation of years of the author's intimate knowledge about this and other musicals. His love for his subject and his impeccable prose make reading it a delight. - Jeffrey Round, Unvailed Keith Garebian has neatly combined queer theory, biography, and his own special brand of accessible, engaging ... Read more