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CHARACTERS
Liza
Pickering
Higgins
Mrs. Pearce
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*A note on the text. There are a few words and phrases deliberately in incorrect English, the mistakes Liza
makes while she is learning to speak correct English. They are in italics and underlined, marked like this.
TRACK 19
Scene 1
Buy a flower, lady
It is raining in London, at night. Various pedestrians have gathered under the portico of a West End
theatre, playing a famous musical. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with
his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing
busily.
The Lady:I’m so cold! Where are the taxis?
Bystander: You won’t get a taxi, not in this rain.
The Lady: But I must have a taxi.
Bystander: Sorry, there is not one free.
The Bystander rushes off into the rain but bumps into the Flower Girl on his way out.
Liza: Hey: look where you’re going, dear.
Bystander: Sorry (He rushes off).
Liza: (Picking up her flowers and replacing them in the basket) What bad manners! My poor
flowers! Will you pay me for them?
The Lady: How much? I only have one pound.
Liza: I can change five pounds, kind lady.
The Lady:
This is for your flowers.
Liza: Thank you very much.
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An elderly gentleman rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella. He is very wet about the
ankles. He is in evening dress, with a light overcoat. The Flower Girl looks up in admiration at the
theatre signs and lights, and begins humming a show tune.
Pickering: The Lady:
Phew!
(To the gentleman) Is the rain stopping?
Pickering: I’m afraid not. It’s worse than ever.
The Lady:
Liza: Oh no!
Then it’s nearly over. Come on! Buy a flower.
Pickering:I’m sorry, I don’t have any change.
Liza:I can give you change.
Pickering: For ten pounds? I don’t have anything else.
Liza: Oh no! I can only change five pounds. Oh please buy a flower. Take this for fifty pence. I can
sing a song for you too!
Pickering: Don’t be annoying. (Trying his pockets) I really don’t have any change…
Liza:
(She begins to sing a famous show tune. She has a nice voice, but insecure. The
Gentleman interrupts her after a couple of lines)
Pickering:
Wait: here’s twenty pence.
Liza: (Disappointed) Thank you, sir.
The man taking notes has started to laugh, at first quietly, and then quite loud.
The Lady:
What’s he laughing at?
Higgins:
Poor thing. What a horrible voice!
Liza:
What? I have a nice voice. My mother told me!
Higgins:
Oh dear, oh dear. Awful.
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Liza:
How dare you? (She is nearly in tears)
Pickering: (To Higgins) Really, sir. You should leave the poor Girl alone.
The Lady:
Yeah, leave her alone.
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Higgins: (He begins to sing the same show tune as the flower Girl, but with a beautiful resonant
voice) That’s better isn’t it?
Pickering: Yes it is.
The Lady:
Wow! What a great voice!
Liza:
He’s no gentleman.
Higgins: It stopped raining about two minutes ago.
The Lady:
Why didn’t you say so before? Wasting our time She walks off.
Liza:Insulting people...
Pickering:
How do you know so much about music?
Higgins:I work in musicals. I’m a voice teacher.
Pickering: But is there money in that?
Higgins: Oh yes. All actors want to have beautiful voices. I help them to talk and sing.
Liza:I think you are a horrible person!
Higgins: (Explosively) Shut up or go away!
Liza: (With feeble defiance) I’ll stay right here.
Higgins: You are making stupid noises. Remember that you talk the language of Shakespeare; and
don’t sit there making horrible noises.
Liza:
You are so cruel!
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Higgins: You speak horrible English! Well, in three months I could make that Girl the star in this musical
(Pointing at the theatre behind them. Liza looks up in wonder) That’s what I can do.
Pickering: I am myself a voice teacher in Canada; and…
Higgins: Are you? Do you know Pickering, at the Canadian Musical Theatre Company?
Pickering: I am Pickering. Who are you?
Higgins: Henry Higgins.
Pickering: (With enthusiasm) I came from Canada to meet you.
Higgins: I was going to Canada to meet you.
Pickering: Where do you live?
Higgins: 27A Wimpole Street. Come and see me tomorrow.
Pickering: I’m at the Carlton hotel.
Higgins:
Where’s that?
Pickering:It is just around the corner, left at Trafalgar Square. Come with me now and let’s talk.
Higgins:Good idea.
Liza: (To Pickering, as he passes her) Buy a flower, kind gentleman.
Pickering: I really don’t have any change. I’m sorry (He goes away).
Higgins: Awful singer.
Liza: You are a horrible person! (Flinging the basket at his feet)
The church clock strikes the second quarter. Higgins feels a moment of remorse for his lack of
charity to the poor Girl. He throws a handful of money into her flower basket and follows Pickering.
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(Picking up a pound) Wow! (Picking up a couple of pounds) Wooooow! (Picking up
several coins) Ooooooooooh! (Picking up another pound) Whoaaaaaaa!!!
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Wonderful world
Liza:
I want to leave this place
I’m looking up at the stars
All the things I could do with this money
Never know what it is to be hungry
Not to worry about every penny
Tonight I go home in a taxi
If only every night were the same
now it all seems so far away
I want to leave this place
I’m looking up at the stars
What a wonderful world
This could be if they would let me sing
I want to run away
I’m looking up at the stars
What a wonderful world
This could be if they would let me sing
Day-dreaming about being lucky
Meet the Queen for tea
Except I wouldn’t know what to say
If only I could talk like a lady
Learn to act like the ladies do
Maybe I could be happy
I want to leave this place
I’m looking up at the stars
What a wonderful world
This could be if they would let me sing
I want to run away
I’m looking up at the stars
What a wonderful world
This could be if they would let me sing
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Scene 2
A Big Job
Higgins’ house. He has recording equipment, microphones. Pickering is with him. They are listening
to many different voices saying the same sentence: “The rain in Spain.” Many of them sound exactly
the same.
Higgins:
My hobby is to record people’s accents. You never know when you need to train an actor to
sound Australian!
Pickering:Incredible! I thought I was good. But you know so much more than me!
Higgins: (Mrs. Pearce, Higgins’ secretary enters) Hello Mrs. Pearce. What’s the matter?
Mrs. Pearce: (Hesitating, evidently confused) A young woman wants to see you, sir.
Higgins: A young woman? What does she want?
Mrs. Pearce: Well, she says you’ll be happy to see her. She’s quite a common Girl, sir. Very common. I
thought you wanted to record her accent. I hope I’m not wrong; but you see such strange
people sometimes…
Higgins: Oh, that’s all right, Mrs. Pearce. Does she have an interesting accent?
Mrs. Pearce: Oh, it’s horrible, sir, really. I don’t know how you can find it interesting.
Higgins: (To Pickering) Tell her to come in, Mrs. Pearce (He rushes across to his working table
and picks out a tape).
Mrs. Pearce: (Only half resigned to it) Very well, sir. If you say so (She goes).
Higgins: This is good luck. I’ll show you how I record. I will tape her accent.
Mrs. Pearce: (Returning) This is the young woman, sir.
The flower Girl enters. She has a hat with three ostrich feathers, orange, sky-blue, and red. She has a
nearly clean apron, and the shoddy coat has been tidied a little.
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(Brusquely, recognizing her with unconcealed disappointment) Oh no! The flower Girl? I
don’t like your voice and your accent is even worse. (To the Girl) Go away.
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Liza: You’re so rude! You don’t know why I’m here yet. (To Mrs. Pearce) Did you tell him I come in
a taxi?
Mrs. Pearce: Do you think he cares?
Liza: He gives lessons: I heard him say so. Well, if my money’s not good enough I can go
somewhere else.
Higgins: Good enough for what?
Liza: Good enough for you. I’m here for lessons. And to pay for them too.
Higgins: WELL!!! What do you expect me to say to you?
Liza: Well, first, ask me to sit down.
Higgins: Pickering: should we ask her to sit down or should we throw her out of the window?
Liza: (Running away in terror) Noooooooo! I won’t be treated like that.
Motionless, the two men stare at her from the other side of the room, amazed.
Pickering: (Gently) What do you want?
Liza:I want to be in the musical. I want you to teach me to sing.
Mrs. Pearce: Don’t be stupid! How can you pay Mr. Higgins?
Liza: Why not? I know what lessons cost; and I’m ready to pay.
Pickering: (Very courteous) Sit down, please.
Liza:
Thank you. (She sits down)
Higgins: What’s your name?
Liza: Liza Doolittle.
Pickering: Higgins: I’m interested. What about that new musical? Teach her and I’ll say you’re the best
teacher alive. I’ll bet you can’t do it. And I’ll pay for the lessons.
Liza: Oh, you are so good. Thank you.
Higgins: (Tempted, looking at her) It’s almost irresistible. She’s so horribly dirty…
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Liza: (Protesting extremely) Heeeeeeey!!! I’m not dirty: I washed my face and hands before
coming.
Higgins: Yes: in six months… in three if she has a good ear … We’ll start today: now! Yes, right now!
Take her away, Mrs. Pearce. If she doesn’t obey you, send her away.
Liza: Heeeeeeey!
Pickering: Please, Higgins! be reasonable.
Mrs. Pearce: (Resolutely) You must be reasonable, Mr. Higgins: really you must. You can’t treat people like
this.
Liza: No, you can’t! I got feelings. I’m a human being.
Higgins: (To Pickering) You see the difficulty?
Pickering: Eh? What difficulty?
Higgins: Pronunciation is easy. She needs to learn grammar
Liza:I don’t want to learn grammar. I want to sing.
Higgins:
Yes, but you need to learn how to talk and behave like a lady before singing.
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Higgins:A little test. Say your alphabet.
Liza:I know my alphabet. I’m not stupid!
Higgins:
(Thundering) Say your alphabet!
Pickering:Say it, Miss Doolittle. You will understand. Do what he tells you; and let him teach you.
Liza:
Oh well. Maybe you’re right - Ayeee, bayee, saeye....
Higgins:
(With the roar of a wounded lion) STOP! Listen to this, Pickering. This is the education we
pay money for. The result is ‘Ayee, bayee, sayee...’ Eliza: say A. B. C. D.
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(Almost in tears) But I said it right. Ayee, bayee, sayee...
Higgins:Stop! Say ‘A cup of tea.’
Liza:A cuppa tae.
Higgins:
Put your tongue forward. Now say ‘Cup’.
Liza:Cu-cu-cu. I can’t! (Finally) ‘Cup’.
Pickering:
(Surprised) Good! Well done, Miss Doolittle.
Higgins:
That’s it. Pickering, we will make her a singer (To Liza). Next step: say ‘Tea’ Not taye. If you
say beaye, or caeye or daeye again, you will go away immediately. (Fortissimo) T.T.T.T.
Liza:
(Weeping) I can’t hear the difference; it sounds better when you say it.
Higgins:
Of course! Why are you crying?
Pickering:No, no. Don’t worry, Miss Doolittle: you are doing very well. I promise we won’t send you
away.
Liza:
Yes. I will practice, I promise.
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Higgins:
Yes you must practice. Say it!
Liza:I must practice.
Higgins:Good. I must not speak like a horrible street Girl.
Liza:I must not speak like an orrible street Girl.
Higgins:No! Did I say orrible? Did I?
Liza:
Yes you did! Don’t call me orrible.
Higgins:
Horrible! Horrible! There is an H at the beginning of that word! Pronounce it Girl!
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Liza:
Orrible…
Higgins:
HHHHorrible!
Liza:
Orrible… (Nearly in tears)
Higgins:
Listen to the sound. HOH!
Liza:
Hoh…
Higgins:
HOHorrible!
Liza:
Horrible…
Pickering:
There you are! Well done, Liza.
Higgins:About time. Hotel!
Liza:
Hotel…
Higgins:
Hippopotamus!
Liza:
Hippowassamus…
Higgins:Could you remember to say every H from now on?
Liza:
Yes, I will. I’m done my best.
Higgins:I am doing my best!
Liza:I am doing my best…
Higgins:I am learning to speak English!
Liza:I am learning to speak English…
Higgins:I am annoying my wonderful teacher!
Liza:I am annoying my wonderful teacher…
Higgins:
Yes, you are!
Pickering:Give her a chance, Higgins!
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Higgins:
This is what she wanted! I am teaching her.
Liza
There ain’t no need to be rude to me.
Higgins:
There is no need! There is no need! The correct way to say it is there is no need. Ain’t is
completely incorrect English!
Liza:
There is no need… but I want to learn to sing…
Higgins:I will make you speak perfect English first. Then you will sing. You are going to do everything I
say.
Pickering:
You must listen to him, Liza. He may be rude, but you will learn a lot from him.
Liza:I will listen. I’m a good Girl.
Pickering:
Let her have a break, you’re making her nervous.
Higgins:
Very well. Go with Mrs. Pearce, and practice this: keep your tongue well forward in your
mouth. Another lesson at half past four. Go away.
Mrs. Pearce: Mr. Higgins, we must talk. What is Liza going to do after the musical? You must think of the
future.
Higgins: (Impatiently) Who cares?
Mrs. Pearce: That’s her problem, not yours.
Higgins: Well, she can go back to the streets.
Pickering: Excuse me, Higgins. Mrs. Pearce is quite right. If this Girl is going to stay here for lessons,
she must understand what she’s doing.
Higgins:
Oh very well. Liza: you will spend the next six months living here. I will teach you to sing well,
but also to talk and to act like a lady. If you’re good, you will sing in a new musical and be a
star. If you’re naughty you will go back to the streets immediately. Is that clear?
Liza: (Rising reluctantly and suspiciously) You’re so cruel. You don’t know how to treat people.
I’m a good Girl…
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Mrs. Pearce: Don’t answer back. Come with me (She leads the way to the door, and holds it open for
Liza).
Liza: (As she goes out) I’ve always been a good Girl; and I don’t care; and I have feelings…
Mrs. Pearce shuts the door; and Liza’s complaints are no longer audible.
Higgins: Pickering: this is a big job.
Pickering: (With conviction) Higgins: it is.
Liza returns, in a very pretty dress. She is also clean now.
Liza: Look at me
I look like a lady
Higgins: Ask for a cup of tea
Just like a lady
Liza:
A cup of tea!
Higgins: Very good, can you say
Have a nice day?
Liza:
Havva nice daeye
Higgins: No, no, no, no, no!
That will not do!
Liza:
Have a nice deeeey.
Higgins: That’s not what I said!
Liza:
Have a nice day!
Higgins: Perhaps you can be saved.
Mrs. Pearce: But it’s not just what she says.
Pickering:It’s how she behaves.
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Have a nice day
Mrs. Pearce:
If she’s going to be in a musical
Then she must learn to move
If we put her on stage
Then we have to approve.
They manipulate her like a puppet. During the following they dress her up in beautiful clothes.
Pickering:
Stand up straight girl
Don’t play with your dress
Smile sweetly girl, yes
And your hair is an awful mess
Mrs. Pearce:
When you sit cross your legs
Move softly and with grace
Like you’re walking on eggs
And show your happy face
Higgins: Fold your arms in your lap
And keep your neck up straight
Don’t look like you’re having a nap
Your head looks like a weight
Liza:
All:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
It’s a lovely day
Pickering: Look me in the eyes n’
Not at the floor
Don’t act like you’re shy
Listen to what I say
Higgins: Smile at me it’s worth a try
Nod your head and then reply
Such a beautiful day
To be outside!
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Liza:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
All:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
It’s a lovely day
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Scene 3
Moment of truth
A party at a rich actor’s house.
Higgins:Now, Liza. It’s not just a question of singing. You need to act like an important singer.
Liza:I understand.
Higgins:I’m going to present you to the Director of the musical. We need to convince him you can sing
in the musical.
Liza:
But what if he doesn’t like me?
Higgins:
He will like you, don’t be stupid. Now, let’s go and say hello.
One of the guests at the party enters. He is an important looking young man with an astonishing
hairy face. Recognizing Higgins, he opens his arms wide and approaches him enthusiastically.
Nepommuck: Maestro, maestro (He embraces Higgins and kisses him on both cheeks). Do you remember me?
Higgins: No I don’t. Who are you?
Nepommuck: I am your student: your first student, your best and greatest student. I am little Nepommuck,
the marvellous boy. I have made you famous all over Europe. You cannot forget ME.
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Why don’t you shave?
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Nepommuck: I’m famous for my beard! They call me. The bearded singer! And now I train young people to
sing (He goes to stand with the Director).
Liza: Is that man an expert? Will he know I’m not a real singer?
Higgins: I don’t know. I hope not. Well, Liza, are you ready?
Liza: Ready.
Higgins: Go.
At the top of the staircase the Director, with Nepommuck on her arm, are welcoming guest.
Director: (Taking Liza’s hand) How do you do?
Liza: (With a beautiful gravity that awes her host) How do you do?
Director: (Conversationally) Will it rain tomorrow?
Liza: The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly
direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation.
Nepommuck: Ha! ha! how funny!
Liza: What is wrong with that, young man? I’m sure I got it right. So pleased to have met you. Goodbye. (She shakes hands with Nepommuck).
Director: Good-bye. (To Nepommuck) Find out all about her.
Nepommuck: Yes, I will… (He goes after her).
Director: How do you do, Higgins? You have a rival here. He says he was your student. Is he good?
Higgins: As a singing teacher, useless.
Director: Tell us all about the wonderful lady.
Higgins: What wonderful lady?
Director: You know very well. They tell me there has been nothing like her in London for an age.
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Higgins:
So much work
So much effort
Finally we’re here
Liza:
So many tears
So many lessons
Finally we’re here
Liza:
Telling my C’s from my S’s
Higgins:
Pronouncing every H
Liza:
How much wood would
Higgins:
A woodchuck chuck
Liza:
Every day over and over
Higgins:Until I’m sick of the sound
Liza: But what if I’m caught?
How can I go back to the street?
Higgins: Suppose they find her common?
I’ve worked on her for months
Watching her lips and teeth
And tongue and soul
Making every vowel
And consonant sound fine
Liza: But what if I’m caught
How can I go back to the street?
They are all so beautiful
The Director so distinguished
And I am just a flower Girl
All I wanted was to work
In a flower shop instead
Of the street corner
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Higgins:
But what if I lose my bet?
Liza:
I can’t go back to the street.
Nepommuck joins the group, full of news.
Director: Ah, here you are at last, Nepommuck. Who is Miss Doolittle?
Nepommuck: She is a fraud.
Director: A fraud! Oh no.
Nepommuck: Yes, yes. She is a liar. Her name cannot be Doolittle.
Higgins: Why?
Nepommuck: Because Doolittle is an English name. And she is not English.
Director: Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
Nepommuck: Too perfectly. Can you show me any English woman who speaks English properly? Only
foreigners speak so well.
Director: I was scared by the way she said How do you do. I had a teacher who talked like that. But if
she is not English, then what is she?
Nepommuck:Spanish.
All the rest: Spanish!
Nepommuck:Spanish.
Higgins: Did you speak to her in Spanish?
Nepommuck:I did. She was very clever. She said ‘Please speak to me in English: I do not understand
French.’ French! She pretends not to know the difference between Spanish and French.
Impossible: she knows both.
Director:
What do you say, Higgins?
Higgins: I say she’s a common London Girl taught to speak by an expert.
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The group breaks up, leaving Higgins isolated. Liza joins him.
Liza: I want to leave. The people all look at me. An old lady has told me that I speak exactly like
Queen Victoria. I have done my best; but it’s impossible.
Higgins: You were perfect! You acted like a star! Let’s go, It’s enough for today and I don’t really like
these people…
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Scene 4
Musical Star
Opening night of the musical. Outside the same theatre as the first scene, now there are signs for
Pygmalion, starring Eliza Doolittle. It is raining. Higgins and Pickering are standing, waiting for the
doors to open. There is a Girl selling flowers standing behind them.
Higgins:
Well, here we are, Pickering. First night!
Pickering:I’m so nervous! I hope she does well.
Higgins:
Oh, she will be fine.
Girl:
Would you like a flower, sir?
Higgins:No, thank you.
Girl:Sir?
Pickering:I don’t have any change, sorry (The Girl goes away, she looks cold).
Higgins:She’s late. (Liza enters) At last!
Liza:I’m so sorry.
Pickering:Come on, you need to put your dress on.
Higgins:And practice the songs before you go on stage. (He hums a note, to warm Liza up. They both
hum the note. Then he hums a scale and she imitates it) Come inside! It’s cold here. (They go
in. Liza stops and looks up at the poster and her name. The Girl comes up to her)
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Would you like a flower?
Liza:No thanks. (She goes. The Girl looks sad, then looks up at the poster and realises who
Liza was)
Girl:
Wooooow!! (Liza has come back, she looks at the Girl sadly. The Girl notices her)
Liza:I’m really sorry, I don’t have any change.
Girl:Can I have your autograph?
Liza:
My autograph? Yes…
Girl:I don’t have any paper… or a pen (She looks sad).
Liza:
Wait. (Liza has a pen and a paper. She signs it, and gives it to the Girl) Now turn it over.
(The Girl does)
Girl:It’s a ticket!
Liza:
Yes. Would you like to see the musical?
Girl:
Of course!
Transition to inside the theatre. The Girl watches the musical, amazed.
Liza:Everybody clap! (She tries to get the audience to clap the rhythm) One, two, three, four!
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I used to dream
Higgins:
You’re going
to be a star!
Pickering:Nothing else matters
You are going to be a star!
Higgins:You used to dream
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Pickering:
of being here
Trying to fight
all your fears
Liza:
And I wanted to sing
I wanted to dance
And then I got my chance
I used to dream
of being free
To sing and be all I could be
I am going to be a star!
Nothing else matters
I am going
to be a star!
Nothing else matters
Rising to the top.
But I won’t
forget who I am
I am as I am
And nothing will change my soul
ALL She used to dream
of being free
To sing and be all she could be
She is going to be a star!
Nothing else matters
ALL She used to dream
of being free
To sing and be all She could be
She is going to be a star!
Nothing else matters
The Girl applauds, she loved it.
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Scene 5
Bye - Bye Sir
Midnight at Higgins’ house. Nobody in the room. Liza opens the door and is seen in a brilliant
evening dress, and diamonds, with fan, flowers, and all accessories. She is tired, pale, and her
expression is almost tragic. She sits down, brooding and silent. Higgins, in evening dress, comes
in. He takes off the hat and overcoat; throws them on the chair; and throws himself wearily into the
easy-chair at the hearth.
Higgins: Where are my slippers?!
Eliza looks at him darkly; then leaves the room. She returns with a pair of large worn-out slippers. She
places them on the carpet before Higgins, and sits as before without a word.
Higgins: (Yawning again) What an evening! I can’t believe we did that! (He raises his shoe to unlace
it, and catches sight of the slippers. He stops unlacing and looks at them as if they had
appeared there of their own accord). Oh! There they are!
Pickering: (Stretching himself) Well, I’m tired. It’s been a long day. But Eliza did it, eh?
Higgins: (Fervently) Thank God it’s over!
Eliza flinches violently; but they take no notice of her; and she recovers herself and sits stonily as
before.
Pickering: Were you nervous at the theatre? I was. Eliza didn’t seem nervous.
Higgins: Oh, she wasn’t nervous. I knew she’d do well. But I am bored of teaching her now, it’s been
too long.
Pickering:I’m so tired. Good night.
Higgins: Good night. (Over his shoulder, at the door) Turn off the lights, Eliza; and tell Mrs. Pearce
not to make coffee for me in the morning: I’ll have tea. (He goes out)
Eliza tries to control herself as she switches off the lights. By the time she gets there she is on the
point of screaming. Finally she throws herself furiously on the floor raging.
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(In despairing wrath outside) What have I done with my slippers? (He appears at the door).
PYGMALION
Liza: (Snatching up the slippers, and hurling them at him one after the other with all her
force) There are your slippers. And there. Take your slippers!
Higgins: How dare you! What’s the matter? Get up. What’s wrong?
Liza: Nothing wrong… with YOU. That’s enough for you. I don’t matter, I suppose.
Higgins: You! What’s wrong with you? Why did you throw those slippers at me?
Liza: Because you are the worst man in the world. You’re so selfish! What’s going to happen to
me?
Higgins: I don’t know. What does it matter?
Liza: You don’t care. I know you don’t care. Who cares If I’m dead. I’m nothing to you… like them
slippers.
Higgins: (Thundering) THOSE slippers.
Liza: Those slippers. I didn’t think it mattered now.
A pause. Eliza hopeless and crushed. Higgins a little uneasy. Pickering has entered, hearing the
shouts.
Higgins: Are you tired? Would you like a glass of champagne?
Liza: No. (Recollecting her manners) Thank you.
Higgins: (Good-humoured again) It’s all over now. (He pats her kindly on the shoulder. She
writhes) You’ve done it.
Liza: What do I do now? Where do I go? What’s going to happen to me? Should I go away?
Higgins: (Understanding, but not at all impressed) Why do you want to go away? You go to bed and
have a good rest.
Liza: (To Pickering, taking no apparent notice of Higgins) Will you forget about me now that the
experiment is over?
Pickering:
Don’t call it an experiment.
Liza: I have forgotten my own language, and can only speak yours. You only want me to stay to
pick up your slippers. Why should I stay?
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Higgins: Because you need me.
Liza: You’re not my teacher now. I want a little kindness. What I done (Correcting herself) what I
did was not for the money and the fame: I did it because I care for you.
Higgins: Well, of course. That’s just how I feel. And how Pickering feels. Eliza: don’t be silly.
Liza: I am going and I will not see you again, Professor. Good bye. (She goes to the door)
Higgins: Good-bye. Oh, by the way, Eliza, tomorrow buy me ham and cheese, will you? And buy me
a tie to match that new suit. You can choose the colour (His cheerful, careless, vigorous
voice shows that he is incorrigible).
Liza: (Disdainfully) You have three new ties in the drawer. I have already told Mrs. Pearce to buy
the ham. I don’t know what you will do without me (She sweeps out).
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Eliza
Higgins
& Pickering: She filled up our lives
Pickering:
We were always talking Eliza
Higgins:
Teaching Eliza
Pickering: Dressing Eliza
Higgins
& Pickering: Inventing new Elizas
Liza:
I only wanted to be myself
Eliza Doolittle
Goodbye, farewell
I’ll never see you again
Liza:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
All:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
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Higgins: I’m sure I’ll see you again soon
You won’t go far without me
Liza: Goodbye, farewell
You’ll never see me again
Liza:
I won’t be what you want me to be
I’m not a toy to play with
So now I’m leaving on my own
I’m leaving here
Higgins: I made you famous
I created you
I’m sure I’ll see you soon
No matter what you say
Liza:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
All:
Have a nice day
Wonderful day
Beautiful day
the end
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