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Bernard shaw's smelly London is a work of art

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From: Citizen Gloucestershire, The
Date: 20080423
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Sometimes, when they take a familiar painting, and carefully strip off the patina of century-old accumulation, something miraculous happens. New figures appear, or old ones appear with startling clarity.

Peter Hall's excellent production of Pygmalion is a bit like that, certainly for those of us more familiar with its musical version, My Fair Lady, than with George Bernard Shaw's original.

One cannot hear Professor Higgins bewail the inadequacies of women, or articulate those rotundly rounded vowels, without marvelling at how cleverly Alan Jay Lerner turned Shaw's words into lyrics.

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