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Auditions for My Fair Lady

To be held 30th November, from 7.30

Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, Blackheath SE3 7SE

Character Audition Piece
Eliza Doolittle
18 to early 20s
Voice – soprano
A flower girl. Is required to transform from feisty cockney to a well-spoken lady
'Just You Wait', bb. 1-33 and 'I Could Have Danced All Night', bb. 92-end.
Please email for dialogue
Henry Higgins
mid 30s to 40s
Voice – tenor
As a world-famous phonetics expert he must speak very eloquently.
I'm An Ordinary Man, bb. 1-51
Please email for dialogue
Alfred P. Doolittle
40s to 50s
Voice – bass/baritone
Eliza’s dad.
A jovial cockney dustman
'Get Me To The Church On Time', bb. 12-73
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Colonel Pickering
50s to 60s
Voice – tenor/baritone
A retired British officer. A real gent!
'You Did It', bb. 43-93
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Freddy Eynsford-Hill
20s to 30s
Voice – tenor
An upper-class young man, rather besotted with Eliza
'On The Street Where You Live', bb. 4-91
Please email for dialogue
Mrs Pearce
40s to 60s
Voice – soprano/alto
Higgins’ housekeeper
Please email for dialogue
Mrs Higgins
60s to 70s non-singing
Higgins’ mother
Please email for dialogue
Prof Zoltan Karpathy
30s non-singing
A Hungarian phonetics professor; a former student of Higgins.
Must have a Hungarian accent!
Please email for dialogue
Jamie
Tenor
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Harry
Bass
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Cockney Bystander
Baritone
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Cockney Quartet
2 tenors, 1 baritone, 1 Bass
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Maid 1
Alto 1
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Maid 2
Alto 2
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Maid 3
Soprano 1
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Maid 4
Soprano 2
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Butler
Tenor
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Higgins' Footman
Baritone
All of these roles are filled from within the ensemble. The audition song is:
'With A Little Bit Of Luck, p. 43, bar before figure C to 2nd system of p. 45
Please email for the exact music and dialogue for all roles.
All auditions are open auditions and auditionees must pay a £10 fee to audition which is refunded against their membership fee.
Click here if you are interested in auditioning for our production of My Fair Lady