A Time To Start Living
- A Celebration
of the great Elizabeth Welch
Louise Gold appeared as a Guest Artist in A Time To
Start Living – A World Aid’s Day Gala, a fundraising event for Crusaid, at The
Shaftsbury Lyric Theatre on Sunday 6 December 1992
Note:
Please note the cast listing and running order is not necessarily accurate, the
webmaster wasn’t present and so is
having to use the original printed programme of events as a guide. Under Cast,
those artistes whose names appear in bold almost certainly appeared,
those whose names appear in italics certainly had one of their pieces
dropped, and may not have appeared at all. Those whose names are in neither bold
or italic were billed to appear, but I do not have any information as to
if they appeared and if so what they did.
Cast
Starring (Subject to
availability): Brent Barrett, Josephine Blake,
Joanne Campbell, Robin Cousins, John Dankworth, Elaine
Delmar, Fenella Fielding, Maria Freidman, Louise Gold,
Simon Green, Peter Greenwell, Sam Harris, Michael Howe,
Sally Ann Howes, Paul Jones, David Kernan, Cleo Laine,
Bonnie Langford, Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, Marion
Montgomery, Claire Moore, Angela Richards, Liz Robertson,
Bobby Short, Martin Smith, Mark Wynter
and of course: Elisabeth
Welch
Hosted
by: Ned Sherrin
Singers:
Mary Carewe, Susan Flannery, Elizabeth Watts, Jim Graeme, Stephen
Hill & David Urwin
Dancers:
Andrea Palmer, Helen Pattison, Jane Sansby, Rachel
Smith, Michael Conran & Guy Forecast
Other
Performers (mentioned in running order): Robin Cleaver, Michael Small, Bryn Walters
additional
performers (not listed in programme): Petula
Clark,
Production Team
Presented
by: Show People 90 &
Directed by
– David Kernan
Musical
Directors –
Orchestra – Brian
Archer, Andy Bush, Steve Hamilton, Steve McManus &
Bobby Worth
Choreographers
– Carol Green, Irving Davies & Lindsay Dolan
Lighting
Designer – Michael Odam
Sound by – Autograph
Sound Recording
Songwriters
– Harold Arlen, Ann Hampton Callaway, Hoagy Charmichael,
Duke Ellington, Frank Eyton, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, John
Green, Peter Greenwell, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach,
Lorenz Hart, Walter Hawkins, Jerry Herman, Edward Heyman, Herman
Hupfield, Isham Jones, Nick Kenny, Jerome Kern, Ted Koeler,
Geo Koger, Louiguy, Eric Maschwitz, Mauguerite Monnot,
George Moustaki, Edith Piaf, Cole Porter, Richard
Rogers, Stephen Schwartz , Vincent Scotto, Manning Sherwin,
Robert Sour, John Stranack, George Terry, H. Varna, Ned
Washington, Peter Wildblood
Running Order
Act
1
The Song Is You (Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II) – Claire
Moore, Liz Robertson & Michael Howe
Follow Me (Walter
Hawkins) – Members of the cast of ‘Carmen Jones’
Little Girl Blue (Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart) – Maria Friedman
The Lady Is A Tramp (Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart) – Maria Friedman,
Louise Gold & Claire Moore
Pet Le Clark (something in French – this isn’t listed in the
programme) – Petula Clark
It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart) – Marion Montgomery
Ten Cents A Dance (Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart) – Angela Richards
Bonjour Paris,
I Love
Paris (Cole
Porter), Milord (Marguerite
Monnot & George Moustaki), &, Can Can (Cole Porter) – Josephine
Blake
J’ai Deux Amours (Vincent Scotto, Geo Koger & H. Varna) – Joanne
Campbell
Love For
The Physician
(Cole Porter) – Louise Gold
I Gaze In Your Eyes (Cole Porter & Ann Hampton Callaway) –Martin Smith
Blow Gabriel Blow (Cole Porter) – Sam Harris
Damsel In Distress (John Stranack) – Fenella Fielding
A Nightingale Sang In
Meet The Family (Peter Greenwell & Peter Wildeblood) – Millicent
Martin & Julia McKenzie
Magic to Do
(Stephen Schwartz) – Paul Jones
My Corner of the Sky (Stephen Schwartz) – Brent Barrett
I Won’t Dance
(Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II) – Bonnie Langford
& Robin Cousins
Yesterdays/Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach) – Sally Ann Howes
Bill/Can’t Help Loving Dat Man (Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein
II) – Elaine Delmar & Liz Robertson
Song On The Sand (Jerry Herman) – Simon Green, David Kernan & Mark
Wynter
Act 2
My Cousin From
I’ve Got My Eyes On You (Cole Porter), Drop Me Off In Harlem (Duke Ellington & Nick Kenny),
Body
& Soul (John
Green, Robert Sour, Edward Heyman & Frank Eyton),
&, Just
One Of Those Things
(Cole Porter) – Bobby Short
The Nearness Of You (Hoagy Carmichael, George Terry & Ned Washington),
La Vie
En Rose (Louiguy
& Edith Piaf), Solomon (Cole Porter), As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfield), In No Time At All (Stephen Schwartz), &, It Had To Be You (Isham Jones) – Elisabeth
Welch
Louise Gold and Maria Friedman
had previously appeared together in Merrily
We Roll Along (Stage Production) and went on to feature on that Merrily We Roll Along (Recording).
They have also appeared together in Kids At Heart, and have gone on to appear
together in Sondheim At The Barbican.
They appeared separately in Chicago &
Company.
Maria Friedman and Louise Gold
may have appeared together in Will-Aid
Simon Green, Sally Ann Howes, David
Kernan, Claire Moore, Liz Robertson, and, Andy Bush,
may also have appeared in Will-Aid which was
directed by David Kernan, along with Ned Sherrin.
It is possible that Susan Flannery may also
have previously appeared in Will-Aid, that show had
an actress named Sue Flannery in it.
Peter Greenwell had previously composed
and arranged music for part of Will-Aid
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman,
and, Claire Moore went on to sing together on the JAY/TER recording of Cabaret, their work also features on Centre Stage Showtime!.
Louise Gold and Claire Moore’s
recording from Cabaret also found its way onto Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals, on which Jim Graeme (as James Graeme) also sings.
Martin Smith’s recording credits
include Great Duets From The
Musicals . He had previously worked on The
Metropolitan Mikado and Kids At Heart.
Liz Robertson’s recording credits include:
Cole Porter - Night And Day and Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It (Recording)
(the latter with David Kernan).
Elisabeth Welch’s recording credits
include: Cole Porter - Night And Day
Autograph also did the sound for Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Touring Production) , Anything Goes (Stage Show) and Follies
Paul Jones had previously appeared
in Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Touring Production)
The work of Louise Gold, Liz Robertson, David
Kernan, Peter Greenwell,
Show People ’90 Limited went on to present the
first proper British production of Noel/Cole:
Let's Do It in
Liz Robertson and Steven Edis
went on to contribute to: Regents Park 70th
Anniversary Gala
Josephine Blake, Maria Friedman,
and, Simon Green’s recording credits include The History Of The Musical
Steve McManus’s recording credits also
include Defiant Dames
Ned Sherrin, Martin Smith and Lindsay
Dolan had previously contributed to Metropolitan
Mikado and a concert of highlights from
Ratepayers'
Iolanthe & Metropolitan Mikado
David Kernan, Ned Sherrin, Fenella
Fielding, Michael Howe, Bonnie Langford, Martin Smith,
Stephen Hill Singers: Mary Carewe, Stephen Hill, Josephine
Blake, Elizabeth Watts, Susan Flannery, Jim Graeme
along with Michael Conran had previously appeared in Broadway To Brighton, for which
Louise Gold, David Kernan, Millicent
Martin, Claire Moore Ned Sherrin, and, Martin Smith
may have gone on to appear in Comedy Tonight
which David Kernan also directed, and for which the musicians also
included Brian Archer, Andy Bush, Steve McManus.
Cleo Laine and John Dankworth
had previously appeared on The
Royal Variety Performance (1977).
Ned Sherrin, Liz Robertson, Lorna
Dallas, Fenella Fielding, Cleo Laine, and, Julia McKenzie
went on to appear in the Side By By Side By
Sondheim 25th Anniversary Gala.
Julia McKenzie went on to appear as a
guest on Let’s Do The Show Right Here.
Ned Sherrin, Louise Gold, Fenella
Fielding, and, Julia McKenzie went on to appear on Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue
Julia McKenzie and Millicent Martin
had of course appeared together many times previously, including on television
on Julia
And Company
Cleo Laine had previously been a
Guest Star on The Muppet
Show. Her recording credits include Jerome Kern The First 100 Years
Brent Barrett went on to appear on
television in A Week In The West End.
James Graeme, and, Claire Moore’s
recording credits include Simply Musicals.
Steve McManus
went on to play in the pit orchestra for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Mary Carewe, Petula Clarke, Paul
Jones, and, Julia McKenzie’s recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century, which
Louise Gold had previously appeared
at The Shaftsbury Theatre in Comic Relief, and went on to
appear in Dear Ralph.
Liz Robertson
went on to appear in Happily Ever After,
on which Steve McManus also worked.
Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan, Simon Green,
Cleo Laine, Liz Robertson, Ned Sherrin,
and, John Dankworth went on to
appear in Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala.
Simon Green, and, Angela Richards went on to appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
Marion
Montgomery was a guest on the TV programme The
Ghost Of Faffner Hall.
Martin Smith, and, James Graeme’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales.
Martin Smith’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Glamour
And Majesty.
Mary Carewe, and, Elisabeth Welch’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals –
Dashing Heroes, Blushing Maidens.
Mary Carewe, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, Martin Smith,
and, Elizabeth Welch, along with James Graeme’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals – Laughter And
Tears.
Renamed Theatrecares,
West End Cares went on to present The Company Of Mary Poppins in a FUNdraising
special, which they dedicated to Ned
Sherrin. That production also included
Bonnie Langford’s niece Scarlett among it’s cast (getting very ribbed about
her family).
Critics Comments
“(Maria
Friedman) was then joined by Claire Moore and Louise Gold for a very gutsy
rendition of ‘The Lady is a Tramp’.” ....”Louise Gold evoked Gertrude Lawrence
and the Cole Porter classic ‘The Physician’.” Iain Darroch, WORDS AND
MUSIC, January 1993 (issue 14)
Links about A Time
To Start Living
About Maria page for A Time To Start
Living: http://www.aboutmaria.com/timetostartliving.html
