> My Fair Lady is one of the best titles on there. Seriously, *is* there a better written musical? There's certainly not a more elegant one, or one with as much psychological complexity in the characters. Maybe you've just got a case of words, words, words, and you're so sick of them.

As WIEF said before I got here, it suffers from characters I can neither identify nor sympathise with. Higgins is a prick and Eliza is a brat, and they fester around through a totally predictable plot for the entire duration of the show. That's not to say it doesn't have its good qualities - the scene near the end where Higgins finds Eliza at his mother's house, for example, is excellent - but when both of the main characters are annoying more than anything else, your show has a problem.

As for elegance, this I cannot deny. I can, however, suggest that the elegance has more to do with the setting than anything else; it may well be hard to create a show set in upper-class Victorian London and have it come out *not* elegant. ;-)

Oh, also, the film version isn't helped much by Rex Harrison's total inability to sing. The guy's an excellent actor, and he looks the part brilliantly, but he can't (and doesn't even try to) sing, which one must admit is not a good thing in a musical.