Mark and I both wanted to visit this open air/indoor market and walk in the footsteps of Eliza Doolittle…
Audrey Hepburn was so wonderful in My Fair Lady….It’s a shame that the rest of the entertainment community was so set against her for taking the role. Everyone wanted Julie Andrews to reprise her role as Eliza after her performance on Broadway….according to the bio-books I’ve read, Hepburn worked on her singing voice for several months – but the director decided to bring in a professional and so…she had to Britney-Spears it aka Hepburn had to lip-synch her tunes…
Plenty of busking at the market….this classical strings group did a lovely rendition of the Hungarian dances and Pachbell’s Canon in D. I think they were fundraising for some church….
Cellist: “Christmas is coming and we need your money.”
We gave the group about a pound….not bad for a classical concert in the middle of Convent Gardens.
This chap took the ladder and used it to walk over the kids lying down behind them…apparently this is entertaining to people…..
I, for one, ain’t fond of the movie ending of My Fair Lady. I prefer the original ending as George Bernard Shaw penned. In the play, Eliza is a far stronger gal in it, to me. If you read the story with a bit of a social/polisci spin, you could say it’s an analysis of the effects of colonization and post-colonization. (Where Liza is the new colony, Higgings the old country acting and not planning for the future, and Pickering actually thinking about the future.) In which case, I reaaaally want Eliza to leave the prof. 🙂