Although you are too young to have seen the original Broadway production, you are intimately familiar with George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and with the film featuring Rex Harrison and Audrey

directing a new production of My Fair Lady. Although you are too young to have seen the original Broadway production, you are intimately familiar with George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and with the film featuring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. Like many directors, you wonder about the ending to My Fair Lady. Should it be closer to Shaw or to Lerner and Lowe? Is the Broadway/Hollywood “happy ending” problematic? Or, might we assume that modern audiences profit from questioning rather than altering works of art and are capable of speaking the language of a past era?