Abstract
My Fair Lady is a very charming musical comedy and I'm told that The Chocolate Soldier was an equally charming operetta. Both are made from plays by Bernard Shaw. Neither of them was authorized by him. It can, of course, be asserted that Mr. Shaw would have authorized My Fair Lady had he had the opportunity. I doubt this, for My Fair Lady is un-Shavian in spirit and cancels out most of the points that are made in Pygmalion. The ending of the work has been changed but that's the least of it. The whole second act of the musical -and it only has two acts-is much weaker than the first one and this is because it is even less Shavian.
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