Act I [ edit ] In Edwardian London, Eliza Doolittle is a flower girl with a thick Cockney accent. The noted phonetician Professor Henry Higgins encounters Eliza at Covent Garden and laments the vulgarity of her dialect ("Why Can't the English?"). Higgins also meets Colonel Pickering, another linguist, and invites him to stay as his houseguest. Eliza and her friends wonder what it would be like to live a comfortable life (" Wouldn't It Be Loverly ?"). BRILLIANT! William called Princess Catherine Duchess Doolittle! Catherine full name Catherine Elizabeth Middleton The Royal Family has indeed a very strange sense of humor! Eliza's dustman father, Alfred P. Doolittle, stops by the next morning searching for money for a drink (" With a Little Bit of Luck "). Soon after, Eliza comes to Higgins's house, seeking elocution lessons so that she can get a job as an assistant in a florist's shop. Higgins wagers Pickering that, wi
This is my family This is what they do They call me when they need me But won't listen to a word I say They want the money, they want the luxury But they won't give me ten minutes of their time They pretend they love me So sweet, so kind, they pretend all the time Do you imagine I am blind to your actions Do you think that I don't hear the sigh as You answer the phone Do you think that I am oblivious to your impatience I have two sons The sweetest one......gone! He bought me flowers on any day Especially on Mother's day Now the two remaining Call me on no specific day Flowers.....now what is that? Money we could spend on us Surely you know this to be true Did you think we here to love you? Our mother you may be That's just because we need money But I am stronger than you think My mind recalls each and every action My heart is branded bruised and now cold There is no more shivers No more fears There is knowing and seeing and hearing Endurance this