Plot Act I 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?").
Plot Act I 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")