Full cast announced for My Fair Lady at Chichester Festival Theatre

This summer, a brand-new production of Lerner & Lowew’s My Fair Lady will be staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre for the first time from 6 July.

Starring in the production will be  Hadley Fraser (Magic, The Pajama Game, City of Angels) as Henry Higgins, with Keziah Ibe making her professional debut as Eliza Doolittle. Ben Culleton (Mary Poppins) is Freddy Eynsford-Hill; Tony Jayawardena (Doctor Strangelove) plays Colonel Pickering; Belinda Lang (Little Women) plays Mrs Higgins; Gary Milner (Here & Now: The Steps Musical) is Alfred Doolittle; Finty Williams (Punch) is Mrs Pearce.

They are joined by Jonathan Bourne, Nic Cain, Shani Cantor, Mark D’Arcy, Talia Duff, Nicholas Duncan, Zack Guest, Joe Henry, Jennifer Louise Jones, Ella Kora, Reuben Lally, TJ Lloyd, Maggie Lynne, Anna McGarahan, Kody Mortimer, Rachel Stanley and Jessica Vaux.

Overfilling with beautiful numbers including “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “With A Little Bit Of Luck”, My Fair Lady follows Cockney Eliza Doolittle, who scrapes a living selling flowers on the streets of London. Her dream of being a lady in a florist’s shop is out of reach unless she can speak ‘proper English’. So when she encounters Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, she seizes the chance to transform her life. Higgins blithely takes on a bet to turn the woman he dismisses as a “squashed cabbage leaf” into a high society paragon. But his impulsive wager becomes a journey of discovery for both him and Eliza.

Based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, Lerner & Loewe’s multi award-winning musical broke Broadway records when it opened in 1956 and was later adapted into the 1964 Oscar-winning film. This new production at the Chichester Festival Theatre will be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, choreographed by Stephen Mear and designed by Peter McKintosh.

My Fair Lady will play at the Chichester Festival from 6 July to 5 September 2026.