This is actually a very old submission which I previously didn’t include because a few lines confused me. Also, I don’t really like the music from My Fair Lady. (Personal prejudice, but there you go.) But I figure if I’m going to let in the “I Gotta Feeling” song, which also needs tweaking, then this definitely deserves a spot. So please step over to SerandEz to view My Fair Shidduch, by G (who, it should be mentioned, was married off, though I don’t know if a shadchan was involved). The original song is over here (Youtube link).
October 19, 2009
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Professor Higgins was originally meant to be Peter O’Toole, but his going rate was rather high, so we now have Rex Harrison’s “talk-sing.”
While I grew up on musicals, “My Fair Lady” was not my favorite, and the ending is the exact opposite of “Pygmalion” – Eliza marries Freddy and lives a happy life of shabby gentility, rather than staying with Higgins in an abusive relationship.
Ah, but the play “Pygmalion,” when Eliza finally comes into her own, no longer bound by societal deference to the higher class, and she tells off Higgins – could one say that to a shadchan? “I’m not dirt under your feet.” “I just want a little kindness.”
Is that a message to the wide world of daters? Higgins was Eliza’s mental equal, but his hubris prevented a happy ending. Freddy was a dope, but he adored her, and Eliza (knowing the men’s imperfections) happily took him. “Freddy loves me. That’s king enough for me!”
Comment by Princess Lea — October 19, 2009 @ 11:48 am
A shadchan was involved.
Comment by Ezzie — October 25, 2009 @ 9:38 pm