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Thoughtfully and delicately composed by Jim, Ed, and Jay

PYGMALION. Thoughtfully and delicately composed by Jim, Ed, and Jay. Characters. Henry Higgins – Note taker, phonetics professor, took in Liza as an experiment, rude. Pickering – phonetics teacher, Higgins friend, nice to Liza.

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Thoughtfully and delicately composed by Jim, Ed, and Jay

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  1. PYGMALION Thoughtfully and delicately composed by Jim, Ed, and Jay

  2. Characters • Henry Higgins – Note taker, phonetics professor, took in Liza as an experiment, rude. • Pickering – phonetics teacher, Higgins friend, nice to Liza. • Liza - lowly flower girl, terrible grammar and manners in general. Higgins picked her off the street and tried to make her a lady

  3. More Characters • Alfred Doolittle – Liza’s father, enjoys being undeserving, wins a contest and becomes a public speaker, upset he has consistent money. • Mrs. Pearce – Higgins housekeeper, mother figure to Liza. • Fred – Courts Liza, wants to marry her, son of Mrs. Eynsford Hill • Mrs. Higgins - Higgins mom, is upset with his son for taking in Liza, concerned for her well being.

  4. Even More Characters • Clara:Mrs. Eynsford Hill’s obnoxious daughter • Mrs. Eynsford Hill:Clara and Freddy’s mother. A former member of the upper class, who now attempts to keep up appearances although she is in reduced circumstances. • Nepommuck:Higgins’ former student, a translator, and self-proclaimed master linguist. At the Embassy party, where Higgins hopes Eliza will pass as a duchess, Nepommuck proclaims that she is a Hungarian of royal blood. • Ezra D. Wannafeller:Rich American philanthropist, who transforms Alfred Doolittle from a common dustman to a member of the middleclass by willing him three thousand pounds a year to lecture for the Wannafeller Moral Reform League.

  5. Plot • An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young lady in this classic drama set in turn-of-the-century London.

  6. Real Plot • Professor Higgins meets Eliza on the street and decides that with the help of his friend Colonel Pickering they can transform her into a duchess fit to go to the queen’s garden party.

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