It established Shaw as a commercially successful playwright.ġ952 – Lerner and Loewe are approached to adapt Shaw’s Pygmalion as a musical.ġ956 – My Fair Lady opened on Broadway and starred Julie Andrews. But! When a poem is turned into a story then into play, which is then turned into a musical, and then turned into an academy award winning film, and on top of that inspires even more works – I blog a Facebook-inspired timeline of events (apparently).Ĥ3 BC – 17 AD – The Roman poet Ovid first wrote down the Greek myth of Pygmalion, about a misogynist sculptor who creates a statue of the perfect woman/companion.ġ912 – George Bernard Shaw wrote his Pygmalion. Having studied stage and screen studies in university, I can appreciate when a play finds new life in a film or other art form or when a movie inspires a play/musical. My Fair Lady – the poem, turned story, turned play, turned musical, turned film
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