Rikki Burne is luckier than most leading men in his role as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Producers of the musical at Oathall Community College in Haywards Heath have arranged for him to have five separate female leads because it was so tough to choose between the girls who wanted to play Eliza.

Other male stars stuck with the same girl lead can really only envy him and remark quietly to themselves: "Wouldn't it be Luverly?"