Play: My Fair Lady

156 Homestead Ave. Salinas, CA. Tickets by phone: 831-375-2111

My Fair Lady

Rehearsals start October 18th; Show runs December 5 - 21, 2008

Director: TBA

Call Casting at 759-6037 for more information
and audition appointment times!

DIRECTIONS TO THE WESTERN STAGE

TITLE:	My Fair Lady
AUTHOR(S):	Based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". Adaptation and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe
TYPE:	A musical play in two acts
SYNOPSIS:	With the help of his new friend Colonel Pickering, the phoneticist, Henry Higgins bets that he can create a woman who could pass as a duchess at an embassy ball out of a "deliciously low, horribly dirty" cockney flower girl.

CHARACTERS:
NAME: Henry Higgins "sings" and dances	AGE RANGE:
A brilliant phoneticist. Self-absorbed, inconsiderate, smug. Wealthy.	45-50's

NAME: Eliza Doolittle sings and dances	AGE RANGE:
A clever, attractive, cockney flower girl who leads a dreary existence and who is willing to make sacrifices in the hope of bettering herself and her position in life. Spunky. Poor.	Early 20's

NAME: Colonel Pickering sings and dances	AGE RANGE:
Also an accomplished phoneticist, he, too, is intrigued by the idea of transforming a common young woman into an elegant lady. He's only slightly more sympathetic toward Eliza than Higgins is.	45-50's

NAME: Alfred P. Doolittle sings and dances	AGE RANGE:
Eliza's fun-loving father. Sees Eliza's new situation as an opportunity to make a bit of money for himself and his hard-drinking friends.	40's

NAME: Freddy Eynsford-Hill sings	AGE RANGE:
A very young man, impressionable, he falls in love with Eliza. Wealthy	20's

NAME: Mrs. Eynsford-Hill	AGE RANGE:
Quite the proper matriarch of London society. Freddy's mother. Very wealthy.	Older

NAME: Mrs. Higgins	AGE RANGE:
Higgins' mother. She recognizes his faults. She admires Eliza. Very wealthy.	Older

NAME: Mrs. Pearce sings	AGE RANGE:
Higgins' housekeeper. Mrs. Pearce is occasionally rather concerned about Higgins' endeavor to educate Eliza.	40-50's +

NAME: Professor Zoltan Karpathy	AGE RANGE:
Yet another phoneticist. This one, in Higgins' opinion, is a toadying charlatan.	30-50's +

NAME: George, the Bartender	AGE RANGE:
He's very familiar with Doolittle, and other free-loading types. He's seen them all - and tossed a few out the pub door.	30-50's +

NAME: Cecil, the Bartender	AGE RANGE:
Cecil is the pleasantly surprised recipient of Alfred P. Doolittle's new found generosity.	30-50's +

NAME: Harry sings	AGE RANGE:
One of Alfred's drinking buddies.	40's +

NAME: Jamie sings	AGE RANGE:
Another of Alfred's drinking buddies.	40's +

NAME: Mrs. Hopkins	AGE RANGE:
Eliza's former cockney landlady; she enjoys a good bit of gossip	30-60's +

NAME: First Costermonger, Second Costermonger, Third Costermonger, Three Male Servants to Higgins, Three Female Servants to Higgins, Ladies and Gentlemen at Ascot, and Men at the Fire.	AGE RANGE:
The above listed characters are required to sing. They might dance.	20-60's +

NAME: Busker One, Busker Two, Busker Three, A Bystander, Another Bystander, And Still Another Bystander, Selsey Man, Hoxton Man, Third Cockney, Angry Woman, First Angry Man, Second Angry Man, Butler to Higgins, Lord Boxington, Lady Boxington, Constable, Flower Girl, Footman, Queen of Transylvania, First Man ("That One"), Man Leaning Forward, Mrs. Higgins' Parlor Maid.	AGE RANGE:
The above listed characters have one or more lines. They might sing and dance.	20-70's

NAME: Charles, the Chauffer, Butler, Footman, Sir Reginald and Lady Tarrington, His Excellency Dr. Themistocles Stephanos, The Queen's Consort	AGE RANGE:
The above are characters to whom another character specifically refers and who have no lines. They might sing and dance.	25-70's

NAME: Various Flower Sellers, Costermongers, Cockneys, Street People, Ascot Race Goers, and Embassy Party Animals.	AGE RANGE:
These characters are seen and have no lines. They might sing and dance.	8-70's