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
Donald Adams in Chicago in 1983, which led to many seasons there, including as Baron Zeta in "The Merry Widow" and the Theatre Director and the Banker in "Lulu". He sang Alfred Doolittle in "My Fair Lady" for Scottish Opera in December 1983. He made his Covent Garden debut on 4 November 1983 as a Frontier Guard in "Boris Godunov" (having also prepared the role of a monk) going on to sing Quince in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in July 1986, and Colonel Frank, the prison governor, in "Die Fledermaus," a role, said "The Times", that suited his comic talents to perfection.