How do you solve a problem like Henry Higgens: Bartlett Sher's "My Fair Lady" (touring company)
"Making My Fair Lady woke, or at least palatable to 21st century audiences, is no easy feat. Jay Lerner had a serious misogyny problem (think Camelot, Gigi), and My Fair Lady could be said to normalize a facile view of class inequality while it celebrates patriarchy. What Sher has done is to try to insert the theme of liberation. "