My Fair Lady (film) at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all the attendant expenses if Higgins succeeds. Higgins agrees, and describes how women ruin lives ("I'm an Ordinary Man"). Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a dustman, learns of his daughter's new residence ("With a Little Bit of Luck"). He shows up at Higgins' house three days later, ostensibly to protect his daughter's virtue, but in reality simply to extract some money from Higgins, and is bought off with £5. Higgins is impressed by the man's honesty, his natural gift for language, and especially his brazen lack
Anna O'Byrne for the Sydney Opera House, with more tickets sold than any other production in the Opera House’s 43 years. "My Fair Lady" also featured Alex Jennings as Henry Higgins, Robyn Nevin as Mrs Higgins and Reg Livermore as Alfred P. Doolittle. For this performance, Anna won the Colleen Clifford Memorial Award in The Glugs Theatrical Awards, and was also nominated for the Sydney Theatre Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a musical. Anna was back in London for concerts in December 2016 and January 2017. Anna continued with "My Fair Lady" to Queensland Performing Arts Centre