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Changing Eliza

Changing Eliza Higgins: Good morning,Eliza.My goodness, how pretty you are after a good bath!Ready for your first lesson?You see,Colonel Pickering and I are both here waiting. Eliza: Than’ you sir! Higgins: So let’s begin. Say your alphabet.

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Changing Eliza

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  1. Changing Eliza Higgins: Good morning,Eliza.My goodness, how pretty you are after a good bath!Ready for your first lesson?You see,Colonel Pickering and I are both here waiting. Eliza: Than’ you sir! Higgins: So let’s begin. Say your alphabet. Eliza:I know my alphabet.Do yer thin’ I know noffink! Higgins:Now,now!Let’s start again. Say this after me.(very slowly,loudly and carefully)

  2. Do you think I don’t know anything? Eliza: Do yer think I don’t know anythink! Pickering:Do you know,Higgins,I think that was better! Higgins:(far from satisfied)Once more,Eliza,(emphasizing each word)Do you think I don’t know anything! Eliza(very slowly and carefully too)Doo yoo think I don’t know anything? Higgins:Now to the alphabet,my girl.Don’t argue---just say it.

  3. Pickering: yes,say it, Eliza!You’ll understand soon.Do what he tells you and let him teach you in his own way. Higgins: Oh ,well!if you put it like that! Ahyee, Bayee, Sayee, Dayee… Higgins(bored) Stop at once.Now say A,B,C, and D. Eliza:(in tears)But I am saying it.Ahee. Bayee, Sayee, Dayee… Higgins:Stop!Say “a cup of tea”. Eliza:I cap-o-tee. Higgins:Put your tongue forward until it pushes against the top of your lower teeth. Now say “cup”.

  4. Eliza:C-c-c. I can’t hear no difference’cept that it sounds more genteel-like when you say it(begins to cry) Higgins:(angrily) Well,if you can hear that,why are you crying?Now try again,Eliza. Eliza:C-cup. Pickering:Splendid,Miss Doolittle. never mind a little crying,you are doing very well.The lessons won’t hurt.I promise not to let him pull you round by your hair. Higgins:Now try the whole thing,Eliza.A cup of tea.

  5. Eliza:(very slowly and with emphasis)A cu-up of tea. Pickering:Good,good! Higgins:Better,better!now try this sentence. “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain”. Eliza:(again with emphasis)The rine in Spine falls minely on the pline. Higgins:(excitedly) It’s coming! It’s coming! Now try again,Eliza.(slowly) The rain(ai,ai,ai)in Spain(ai,ai,ai) falls mainly on the plain. Eliza:The rai-ain in Spai-ain falls mai-ainly on the plain.

  6. Pickering:Miss Doolittle,that’s so much better. higgins:Now,Elizaqq,go and practise by yourself.Keep your tongue well forward instead of trying to swallow it. Eliza:(beginning to cry) Oah!Oah! Higgins: (angrily) Now Eliza,go and tell MRS Pearce about this lesson. Think about it and practise by yourself. Away with you! Eliza:(still sobbing,rushes from the room) Pickering:now henry,could’t you have been kinder to that poor girl after all the effort she made?

  7. Act Three Testing Eliza HH:Henry Higgins CP:Colonel Pickering E:Eliza MH:Mrs Higgins M:Maid C:Clara F:Freddy N:Narrator N:Eliza’s first test is a tea party at henry’s mother’s house. HH:Well,hello,mother!This is Colonel Pickering,and this is Eliza. CP:Good afternoon, Mrs Higgins.

  8. E: (slowly and carefully) Good afternoon,Mrs Higgins. MH: (to both) Good afternoon.(murmurs)Now Henry,how is your experiment coming along? HH:Well,mother,well. M: (announces loudly) Here is Mr and Miss Hill! MH: Good afternoon,Freddy and Clara.it’s so good of you to come. Let me introduce you to Miss Eliza Doolittle,my son Hnery and his friend Colonel Pickering.

  9. F:Delighted I’m sure. N: Eliza talks to Clara and Freddy while others listen. E:(very carefully)How do you do,Mr Hill and Miss Hill? C: Good afternoon.May I call you Eliza

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