My Fair Lady - Characters and Original Cast

Characters and Original Cast

Source: GuideToMusicalTheatre

  • Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who teaches Eliza to speak "properly" – Rex Harrison
  • Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney woman who sells flowers – Julie Andrews
  • Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's father, a poor dustman – Stanley Holloway
  • Colonel Pickering, Higgins's friend, who assists him in teaching Eliza – Robert Coote
  • Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Eliza's suitor – John Michael King
  • Mrs. Higgins, Henry Higgins's socialite mother – Cathleen Nesbitt
  • Mrs. Pearce, Henry Higgins's head of household – Philippa Bevans
  • Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, Freddy's mother – Viola Roache
  • Zoltan Karpathy, Henry Higgins's former student, a Hungarian and Higgins's rival – Christopher Hewett

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