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Who Played Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion

Colonel Pickering is a role in Pygmalion, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2018.

One of Shaw's most beloved plays, the basis for the musical, My Fair Lady. Professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility; the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. Written by Bernard Shaw.

11 actors have played Colonel Pickering in Pygmalion.

View full cast of Pygmalion

Performer Production Opened
J. W. Austin Broadway Pygmalion 1926
Jay Velie Broadway Pygmalion 1938
Cecil Humphreys Broadway Pygmalion 1945
Lionel Jeffries Broadway Pygmalion 1987
Richard Neilson Broadway Pygmalion 1987
Earle Hyman Off-Broadway Pygmalion 1991
Boyd Gaines Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Tony Carlin Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Nigel Gore Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Peter Francis James Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Michael Gould West End Pygmalion 2023

Other Roles in Pygmalion

Role Production Opened
Alfred P. Doolittle Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Bystander Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Clara Eynsford-Hill Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Colonel Pickering Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Eliza Doolittle Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Freddy Eynsford-Hil Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Henry Higgins Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Higgins Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Mrs. Pearce Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018

“Colonel Pickering” Also Appears In

Production Type Year
My Fair Lady Broadway 1993

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