My Fair Lady

by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Lowe

AUDITION DATES

You can audition on Sunday 10th September at 6.30pm or Monday 11th September at 7.30pm. If successful, you will be asked to attend recalls on Wednesday 13th September at 7.30pm

Director: Tom Sainsbury
Musical Director: Richard Campbell

Wednesday 13th December - Friday 22nd December*

Matinee performances 16th & 17th December

Main Stage: 7.30pm
Matinee performances, 3pm

*(no performance on 18th December)

Lerner & Loewe’s much-loved, multi award-winning musical brought to our Putney stage!

A chance meeting between two noted British linguists, Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Hugh Pickering, leads to a wager that will test Higgins' skills. After they hear a cockney flower girl in the street, Higgins makes a bet with Pickering that he can transform the girl, Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady that could convince anyone that she was a 'proper lady'. After some hesitation, Eliza agrees to become their test case, and as we see the relationships between the trio develop and grow, the question becomes 'who is really being transformed?'  Boasting a score including the classic songs I Could Have Danced All Night, Get Me to the Church on Time, Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, On the Street Where You Live, The Rain in Spain, and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.

AUDITION DATES

You can audition on Sunday 10th September at 6.30pm or Monday 11th September at 7.30pm. If successful, you will be asked to attend recalls on Wednesday 13th September at 7.30pm

Please either register to audition by emailing the director, Tom Sainsbury at 
MyFairLady.PTC@gmail.com. Or you may turn up on the day, where you will be asked to fill in an audition form. 

AUDITION PREPARATION

You will be asked to sing at the audition. Please either choose a song from My Fair Lady, where we will have the music, or bring with you an accompaniment/backing track that we can play over our speaker. 

You will also be asked to read a short audition piece from the musical. If you would like to see these pieces prior to arriving for audition then please ask when you register to audition.

You may also be asked to undertake a short piece of movement that will be taught on the day. 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

Eliza Doolittle
A flower girl who works outside Covent Garden. Strong willed and Cockney. 
Female, 20-40, Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom A3

Henry Higgins
A world renowned phonetist of the upper class British society.
Male, 30 to 60, Vocal range top: E4, Vocal range bottom: B2

Colonel Pickering
A former British officer and author. Friends with Henry Higgins and a fellow phonetics enthusiast.
Male, 40 to 70, Vocal range top: D4, Vocal range bottom: C3

Freddy Eynsford-Hill
A young, upper class British man who falls in love with Eliza.
Male, 20 to 40, Vocal range top: F4, Vocal range bottom: C3

Alfred P. Doolittle
Eliza's boisterous and charismatic father.
Male, 40 to 70, Vocal range top: E4, Vocal range bottom: G3

Harry
A friend of Alfred P. Doolittle's.
Male or Female, 20 to 70

Jamie
A friend of Alfred P. Doolittle
Gender: Male or Female, Age: 20 to 70

Mrs. Pearce
Higgin's housekeeper
Female, 40 to 70, Vocal range top: G4, Vocal range bottom: E4

Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Freddy's mother and a friend of Mrs. Higgins.
Female, 40 to 70

Mrs. Higgins
Henry's mother
Female, 50 to 80

George
A bartender at the Tottenham Court Road Pub
Male or Female, 20 to 60

Mrs. Hopkins
A Cockney woman
Female, 20 to 60

Professor Zoltan Karpathy
A Hungarian phonetist and former student of Henry Higgins.
Male or Female, 20 to 50

Ensemble
Cockney men and women, townspeople, servants, stewards, lords, ladies.
Strong vocals, some movement and dance required.

PLEASE NOTE

We are committed to improving diversity in our casting and, unless stated for artistic reasons, we aim to actively adopt an inclusive casting policy.

This is an amateur production. You do not need to be a member of PTC to audition, but actors and crew will need to become members for £30 a year by direct debit. A £25 show fee will also need to be paid by all actors in the production. We encourage you to become a member of PTC anyway, even if not cast.

Our company is run by volunteers and we expect all actors cast in a play to volunteer for Front of House duties at least once a year. Our shows could not go up without our Front of House volunteers.