Editing My Fair Lady (section)

==Characters and original Broadway cast==
The original cast of the Broadway stage production:<ref name=guide>[http://guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_m/my_fair_lady.htm "'My Fair Lady' Synopsis, Cast, Scenes and Settings and Musical Numbers"] guidetomusicaltheatre.com, accessed December 7, 2011.</ref>

* [[Eliza Doolittle]], a young Cockney flowerseller – [[Julie Andrews]] 
* Henry Higgins, a professor of [[phonetics]] – [[Rex Harrison]]
* Alfred P. Doolittle, Eliza's father, a [[dustman]] – [[Stanley Holloway]]
* Colonel Hugh Pickering, Henry Higgins's friend and fellow phoneticist – [[Robert Coote]]
* Mrs. Higgins, Henry's socialite mother – [[Cathleen Nesbitt]]
* Freddy Eynsford-Hill, a young socialite and Eliza's suitor – [[John Michael King]]
* Mrs. Pearce, Higgins's housekeeper – [[Philippa Bevans]]
* Zoltan Karpathy, Henry Higgins's former student and rival – [[Christopher Hewett]]