Bookworm
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ElizaSorry if there's another thread about this. I am up for the role of Eliza at a local theatre and I'd really like to get it. I'd like your longest, most thought out post about Eliza and how she relates to the other characters, the beginning of the musical and the end, etc. Thanks!
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music is my life!!!
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okay, this is basically from my experience at my youth theatrem, which we are performing next week :O
Anyway, the most interesting relationship, i think, is betweeen her and Pickering, even though she and Higgins have more stage time together. The 2 audition excerts for Eliza were the first scene and the slippers argument in act 2.
Higgins - at the start of the show, the pair are complete opposites. In fact, they are throughout, but they learn to get along. At the start, Eliza is completely ignorant until she thinks she's in trouble, at which point she starts to panic. I think the most important thing to remember is the development that they go through in the show 
Pickering - the line that says it all "Colonel Pickering treats a flower girl as if she were a duchess" "And I treat a duchess as if she were a flower girl" . Eliza feels that she can confide in Pickering, and she says that even though Higgins is nearer her age than Pickering is, she'd rather marry Pickering..... AND Pickering fires back at Higgins, for the first time showing his emotions "Damn you (to Higgins), I shall miss her!!!"
Mrs Pearce and Mrs Higgins - grows to like both, so much so that Eliza runs away to Mrs H when she leaves Higgins. Both older women grow to like Eliza, and as Mrs H says "I've grown teribbly fond of that girl"
Hopefully that helped, I can write something on the Eynsford Hills if you want
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iheartmusic2
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Re: Eliza | Bookworm wrote: | | I'd like your longest, most thought out post about Eliza and how she relates to the other characters, the beginning of the musical and the end, etc. Thanks! |
It's too early in the morning for a long post. But I recommend you not only watch the film and familiarize yourself with the Broadway score, but read the original play, as well (as in, not the musical).
The play will give you better insight into the dynamic between Eliza and Pickering, Pickering and Higgins, and Higgins and Eliza. There's a brilliant monologue toward the end ("Oh, I am only a squashed cabbage leaf") where Eliza really comes into her own, spells out the relationship she has with Pickering, and how it differs to the one she has with Higgins.
I mean, the musical is very, very different, but the additional familiarity with the characters will help you a lot, I think.
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