"When the playwright George Bernard Shaw used it, I think in 1913 at the premiere of Pygmalion, the audience reaction was hysterical." "Bernard Shaw wrote to a friend that he thought the ...

Shakespeare wasn’t around to see the changes Tate made to his work, but George Bernard Shaw saw the ending of his play Pygmalion being reshaped before his very eyes. Pygmalion tells the story of ...

Pygmalion first appeared on Broadway in 1914 ... the latest in its long association with the work of George Bernard Shaw: Claire Danes makes her Broadway debut as Eliza, matching wits with Tony ...

which itself was adapted from the play “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw. The stage musical was the 1956 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, which it won, along with five other Tonys.

On the face of it, the character first created by George Bernard Shaw for his 1912 play Pygmalion is not only a misogynist but also a bully who uses his superior vocabulary and proper diction to ...

George Bernard Shaw received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 for his work. His plays include Man and Superman, Heartbreak House and Pygmalion, subsequently turned into the musical My Fair Lady.

My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower ...