Eliza Doolittle: A cockney flower girl from Lisson Grove, Eliza works outside Covent Garden. Her potential to become “a lady” becomes the object of a bet between Higgins and Pickering.
Henry Higgins: A British, upper class professional bachelor, Higgins is a world-famous phonetics expert, teacher, and author of “Higgins’ Universal Alphabet.”
Colonel Pickering: A retired British officer with colonial experience, Pickering is the author of “Spoken Sanskrit.”
Alfred P. Doolittle: Eliza’s father, Doolittle is an elderly but vigorous dustman.
Freddy Eynsford-Hill: An upper class young man, Freddy becomes completely smitten with Eliza.
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: A friend of Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill is Freddy’s mother.
Mrs. Higgins: Henry’s long-suffering mother.
Bartender: George works the Tottenham Court Road Pub.
Harry: Drinking companion of Alfred Doolittle.
Jamie: Drinking companion of Alfred Doolittle.
Mrs. Pearce: Henry Higgins’ housekeeper.
Mrs. Hopkins: A cockney woman of Tottenham Court.
Prof. Zoltan Karpathy: A bearded Hungarian, Karpathy is a former phonetics student of Henry Higgins who fancies himself impossible to dupe when it comes to identifying the origin of anyone’s speech patterns.
A Bystander
First Cockney, Second Cockney, Third Cockney, Fourth Cockney: Four men who form a Cockney quartet.
Butler: Henry Higgins’s household employee.
Footman: Henry Higgins’s household employee.
Lord Boxington: A friend of Mrs. Higgins, Boxington is an Ascot race patron.
Lady Boxington: The wife of Lord Boxington.
Flower Girl
Footman: An embassy employee
Selsey Man: A bystander outside Covent Garden
Various Servants, Maids, Stewards, Etc.