Somehow I never noticed that at the beginning of My Fair Lady, the opera everyone is leaving is Faust
OI SAY CAPN
BOI A FLAHR OFFA PORE GEHL
I used to watch this movie as a kid and get all swoony over the costumes, if you want to know how true to the brand I have always been
This is my favorite musical BUT it should have ended, as the play does, with Eliza leaving Higgins (Shaw wrote that Eliza and Higgins remain friendly but she marries Freddy, it is decidedly NOT romantic)
DIDNCHEW TELL IM OI COME INNA TACKSEE
JUST YEW WAIT ENRY IGGINS
IN ARTFORD EREFORD AND AMPSHIRE URRICANES ARDLY HEVER APPEN
OW KOIND OF *YEW* TO LET ME COME
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain
*how* do you do
It never registered until I was trying to find a funny quote for this drawing that, in the scene where Eliza allegedly speaks English too well, she has barely any lines
WORDS WORDS WORDS I’M SO SICK OF WORDS
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