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My Fair Lady Review Round-Up 6:

Edwards brings all that Rex Harrison brought to the role, only he’s more likeable and conflicted. 

Time Out

Edwards’ consummate performance as the arrogant, pompous Professor Higgins elicits the audience’s outrage at Higgins’ bluntness and insensitivity that borders on cruelty, then, with impeccable comic timing, tilts the crowd into guffaws at his self-absorbed, mummy’s boy behaviour. Using a clipped, spoken delivery rather than song, Edwards highlights Higgins’ smug chauvinism in Why Can’t The English? and A Hymn to Him, then, just when we are certain that we loath him, he turns us on our heads with Higgins’ warmth and secret longing for Eliza in I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face. 

Kate Herbert Theatre Reviews

[Charlie’s] Higgins was arrogant but there was also a charm about him. You felt his unacceptable behaviour was due to ignorance more than anything else and that at times he was rather confused by more than dismissive of the women in his life.

Travels With JB

Adding to the distinguished cast is leading English actor, Charles Edwards as Professor Higgins. [He had a] pleasant singing voice [and] captured the misogynist, not really understanding his fellow humans and his dogmatic attitude all echoed in his song A Hymn to Him.

Theatreworld