Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady is based on Pygmalion, a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912. The title refers to a Greek mythological character who features in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. In the original story, Pygmalion was a sculptor (Henry Higgins) who fell in love with a statue he had carved (Eliza Doolittle.) In the Shaw play, Eliza ultimately marries Freddy Einsford-Hill. The public uproar about Shaw’s ending led to Shaw writing an additional postscript essay, detailing the reasons why it was impossible for Eliza and Henry Higgins to marry. He insists that Eliza “must retain her
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