Characters
Director: Will Gluck- is a producer and writer, known for Friends with Benefits (2011), Fired Up! (2009) and Easy A (2010). I like the work he has done and I would like to see his take on this.
Clara Eynsford Hill: Freddy's sister. Most of the time is seen around her mother.
Mrs. Eynsford Hill: Freddy's and Clara's mother.
Freddy Eynsford Hill: In the beginning of the play he is very timid when it came to those who put themselves above others. As the play progresses so does his personality, he starts to show worth, and interest in Eliza. With his love interest he becomes more appealing to be marriage material.
Eliza Doolittle / Liza: She is the lead, for the most part it is about her trying to find herself and where she stands in society. Although she doesn't come from a rich back ground she still has a strong root of self-worth. Very competitive and takes on any challenge, she also doesn't like to be corrected when she thinks she is right. It can be debated that she gains her self-worth after Pickering's treatment towards her, but I would say she has it the whole time, but didn't know how to effectively show it. In the beginning you see how she isn't very tactful and she believes her comebacks are the best when the delivery isn't good at all. Now when she gains all of the proper educate from Henry Higgins she then knows how to speak very eloquently and for the most part it goes to the person core.
Colonial Pickering: He is the quite guy who is humble and is usually right. I like to look at him as the unspoken hero type.
Henry Higgins: He is the guy who always has something to prove. With his strong will to be right, it places him in a bet to make a flower girl, (Liza), turn into a duchess, (Eliza). Even though he basically wins that bet, his own creation turns against him and in the best way puts him in his place.
Mrs. Pearce: Higgins's housekeeper; an extremely proper and class-aware lady, she heartily disapproves of the bet.
Alfred Doolittle: is Eliza's father, an elderly but vigorous dustman who has had at least six wives and who "seems equally free from fear and conscience." When he learns that his daughter has entered the home of Henry Higgins, he immediately pursues to see if he can get some money out of the circumstance. His unique brand of rhetoric, an unembarrassed, hypocritical avocation of drink and pleasure (at other people's expense), is amusing to Higgins. Through Higgins' joking recommendation, Doolittle becomes a richly endowed lecturer to a moral reform society, transforming him from lowly dustman to a picture of middle class morality--he becomes miserable. Throughout, Alfred is a scoundrel who is willing to sell his daughter to make a few pounds, but he is one of the few unaffected characters in the play, unmasked by appearance or language. Though scandalous, his speeches are honest. At points, it even seems that he might be Shaw's voice piece of social criticism (Alfred's proletariat status, given Shaw's socialist leanings, makes the prospect all the more likely).
Mrs. Higgins: Professor Higgins' mother, Mrs. Higgins is a stately lady in her sixties who sees the Eliza Doolittle experiment as idiocy, and Higgins and Pickering as senseless children. She is the first and only character to have any qualms about the whole affair. When her worries prove true, it is to her that all the characters turn. Because no woman can match up to his mother, Higgins claims, he has no interest in dallying with them. To observe the mother of Pygmalion (Higgins), who completely understands all of his failings and inadequacies, is a good contrast to the mythic proportions to which Higgins builds himself in his self-estimations as a scientist of phonetics and a creator of duchesses.
Clara Eynsford Hill: Freddy's sister. Most of the time is seen around her mother.
Mrs. Eynsford Hill: Freddy's and Clara's mother.
Freddy Eynsford Hill: In the beginning of the play he is very timid when it came to those who put themselves above others. As the play progresses so does his personality, he starts to show worth, and interest in Eliza. With his love interest he becomes more appealing to be marriage material.
Eliza Doolittle / Liza: She is the lead, for the most part it is about her trying to find herself and where she stands in society. Although she doesn't come from a rich back ground she still has a strong root of self-worth. Very competitive and takes on any challenge, she also doesn't like to be corrected when she thinks she is right. It can be debated that she gains her self-worth after Pickering's treatment towards her, but I would say she has it the whole time, but didn't know how to effectively show it. In the beginning you see how she isn't very tactful and she believes her comebacks are the best when the delivery isn't good at all. Now when she gains all of the proper educate from Henry Higgins she then knows how to speak very eloquently and for the most part it goes to the person core.
Colonial Pickering: He is the quite guy who is humble and is usually right. I like to look at him as the unspoken hero type.
Henry Higgins: He is the guy who always has something to prove. With his strong will to be right, it places him in a bet to make a flower girl, (Liza), turn into a duchess, (Eliza). Even though he basically wins that bet, his own creation turns against him and in the best way puts him in his place.
Mrs. Pearce: Higgins's housekeeper; an extremely proper and class-aware lady, she heartily disapproves of the bet.
Alfred Doolittle: is Eliza's father, an elderly but vigorous dustman who has had at least six wives and who "seems equally free from fear and conscience." When he learns that his daughter has entered the home of Henry Higgins, he immediately pursues to see if he can get some money out of the circumstance. His unique brand of rhetoric, an unembarrassed, hypocritical avocation of drink and pleasure (at other people's expense), is amusing to Higgins. Through Higgins' joking recommendation, Doolittle becomes a richly endowed lecturer to a moral reform society, transforming him from lowly dustman to a picture of middle class morality--he becomes miserable. Throughout, Alfred is a scoundrel who is willing to sell his daughter to make a few pounds, but he is one of the few unaffected characters in the play, unmasked by appearance or language. Though scandalous, his speeches are honest. At points, it even seems that he might be Shaw's voice piece of social criticism (Alfred's proletariat status, given Shaw's socialist leanings, makes the prospect all the more likely).
Mrs. Higgins: Professor Higgins' mother, Mrs. Higgins is a stately lady in her sixties who sees the Eliza Doolittle experiment as idiocy, and Higgins and Pickering as senseless children. She is the first and only character to have any qualms about the whole affair. When her worries prove true, it is to her that all the characters turn. Because no woman can match up to his mother, Higgins claims, he has no interest in dallying with them. To observe the mother of Pygmalion (Higgins), who completely understands all of his failings and inadequacies, is a good contrast to the mythic proportions to which Higgins builds himself in his self-estimations as a scientist of phonetics and a creator of duchesses.