[dba-Tech] Pygmalion

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sat Jan 26 12:16:01 CST 2013


In the play Higgins turns out to be a much bigger jerk than in the musical.


That 1938 version's not too true to the original play but you'll get the
idea. Maybe there's a youtube of a stage production.

R
 

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Shamil
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 Thank you, Rocky.

And I liked "My Fair Lady"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film )

when I was ten years old AFAICR (IISCRP).

There was also here a very good Russian (Soviet) film "Pygmalion": 
http://www.kino-teatr.ru/teatr/movie/8787/annot/

I have never seen this one "  PYGMALION (1938)"
-   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdPj_XbF30  - I will try to watch it
over this weekend and I will try to get my son to watch it too.

-- Shamil


Суббота, 26 января 2013, 8:11 -08:00 от "Rocky Smolin"
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com>:
>We went to see a staging of Shaw's Pygmalion last night - its the 
>centennial of the play.  Shaw's always entertaining.  Higgins was 
>played by Robert Sean Leonard - better known as Wilson in House.  But 
>it was a bit distracting to watch as the dialog led into so many great 
>songs from the musical and Rex Harrison is for me the definitive Higgins.
> 
>So we came home and you tubed some of the tunes, then more of them.  
>I'd forgotten how many great tunes there were in that show.  Look at this
list:
> 
>http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57
>< http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/songlist?sn=57&show=My+Fair+Lady > 
>&show=My+Fair+Lady
> 
>When I was a kid we had the 33 rpm album and my sister loved it.  So I 
>got to hear it a lot.  Along with a lot of other musicals - she was big on
that.
>I didn't care much for them at the time, but they stuck in my head like 
>music will and now I love the songs - South Pacific, West Side Story, 
>Carousel, Oklahoma, Paint Your Wagon.  That's uniquely American music.
> 
>I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face has become a pretty popular jazz 
>standard
>- we play it in the trio.  Wish I could sing it. 
> 
>Coincidentally, we went to another play a couple of weeks ago - invited 
>to a dress rehearsal at the North Coast Rep - with the same theme: 
>Educating Rita.  It was a movie a few years back.  Professor transforms 
>a working class woman into an intellectual and she eventually moves off
without him.
>The Pygmalion story but without Pygmalion's moral question
> 
>That's my a.m. ramble. 
> 
>R
> 
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