1st Edition

Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady

By Keith Garebian Copyright 2016
104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

"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... Read more

Preface  1. Rex Harrison: Alpha Male  2. Julie Andrews: Chaste Vocal Diva  3. Moss Hart: Sexually Ambiguous Dazzler  4. "Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?"  5. Queer Meanings  Conclusion  Bibliography

Biography

Keith Garebian is a freelance literary and theatre critic, and an award-winning author and poet.

"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 writing that adds a unique perspective to the presence of a great play that became a great musical."

- Bateman Reviews