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Who Played Henry Higgins in Pygmalion

Henry Higgins 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.

10 actors have played Henry Higgins in Pygmalion.

View full cast of Pygmalion

Performer Production Opened
Reginald Mason Broadway Pygmalion 1926
Frank Daly Broadway Pygmalion 1938
Raymond Massey Broadway Pygmalion 1945
Anthony Heald Off-Broadway Pygmalion 1991
Jefferson Mays Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Tony Carlin Broadway Pygmalion 2007
Eric Tucker Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Santino Fontana Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2018
Bertie Carvel West End Pygmalion 2023
Mark Evans Off-Broadway Pygmalion 2025

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

“Henry Higgins” Also Appears In

Production Type Year
My Fair Lady Broadway 1981

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