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
Roger Daltrey of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and in 1996 he starred in a BBC Radio 2 production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" as Judas. In 1998, Daltrey played the part of Scrooge in the Radio City Music Hall production of "A Christmas Carol" in New York City. In 2003, he starred as Alfred P. Doolittle in a production of "My Fair Lady" at the Hollywood Bowl alongside John Lithgow and Melissa Errico. Daltrey has acted in advertisements, television shows, and films, and maintains an extensive filmography. A sampling of his films and TV roles follows: Daltrey contributed to a collection