Pygmalion

When George Bernard Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" over a century ago, it seemed unlikely that his little play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time, "My Fair La-dy," and a motion picture that captured numerous Academy Awards. Yet such popularity should not have been surprising since succeeding generations of readers and playgoers find continual relevance in the story of a speech therapist who successfully converts an untutored flower girl into a darling of high society. The extraordinary wit of the master dramatist of the twentieth cen-tury has not lost its sharp edge as it cuts away at the artificially of class distinctions and the cal-lousness of indifference to human worth.