Saturday, January 13, 2007
My Fair Lady
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Today my grandfather and aunt treated me [again! xD] to a musical, My Fair Lady.
As we know [or as you will soon realise], My Fair Lady is an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and a movie of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn was also made. It involves a bet between Professor Higgins [professor of phonetics] and Colonel Pickering that Higgins can transform a Cockney flowergirl, Eliza Dolittle, into a lady by transforming her speech, deportment and manners.
The process in which this happens was pretty funny but I found the ending so angsty and annoying.-_-"
I loved the actor playing Higgins and hated the actress playing Eliza. [Maybe not hated. But certainly "strongly disliked".] Higgins professed the right amount of agitation, pompousness and idiocy to become a rather likable character despite the audience being well-aware of his flaws, namely of his self-possessed nature. Pickering was another likable character and provided comic relief in the scenes. [Being large and round helped.xD] Even Higgins' mother was rather amusing.
Eliza on the other hand.-_-" Firstly, I HATED how she drawled every.single.word. that came out of her mouth. I mean. Alright. I understand that they wished to portray at the start the vast difference in spoken language and even with her training how she still wasn't really used to this new way of speaking. HOWEVER. Towards the end, her way of speaking was grating on my nerves. And I didn't like how this actress portrayed Eliza. She made her seem like this brat who expected everyone to pander to her. I don't think she was the main actress too, especially based on her voice. She did have that kind of operatic voice that most of these actresses have but it wasn't strong and occasionally she was a little off.-_-" Her expressions also grated on my nerves.
If I have to pick a positive point though, at least she had good rapport with her fellow cast members.
Now I want to watch My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn to see how she portrays Eliza Dolittle. Today's performance was a turn-off and made me completely sympathetic towards Higgins who is such a hilariously endearing character.xD The songs aren't totally memorable though, something I felt could have been improved upon but! I did enjoy the music.^_^" It was overall a good performance that I felt was marred by the actress playing Eliza. A pity really.
And thanks to Jiamin and the newspapers, I now feel like watching Moonchild. Which is translated as 月光游侠 in Chinese!! xD Ahahaha. And to think we all thought it was 月亮孩子. *coughs* Shows our mastery of the language.xD But omygosh. HYDE. And GACKT.xD xD xDcheers*[-witchstone-]*[music : Hitoiro NANA Starring Mika Nakashima][mood : normal][food : apple tart? Cherries! xD]Wendaye: Yea. A REALLY long time ago. Haha.=P And ahh! TAKESHI!!! xD xD xD *drools* He doesn't look like he has plastic surgery done.. How come he looks good even when he's so old?? xD xD xD Beams! [And don't tell me I'm living in denial! (T_T)] [He was born in 1973, supposedly the same age as Gackt.O.o Urm. HMM..]Brenda: Oh the part with her running SCREAMING and then getting killed? I thought it was really stupid and very very very very very random. Ahaha.=P I was like URHHH.O.o And *nods vigorously* Takeshi is just. You know. Too Hot.xD xD xD *BEAMS*Labels: Moonchild, musical review, My Fair Lady
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