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Louise Gold appeared in this double bill concert, at
The Brighton Dome, on Sunday 17 February 1991
The show was a benefit for Sussex Aids Hospice Appeal
Cast
Narrator – Jack
Tinker
Velma Kelly –
Josephine Blake
Roxie Hart –
Kathryn Evans
Amos Hart – Teddy
Kempner
Liz – Louise
Gold
Annie – Gaye
Brown
June – Toni
Palmer
Hunyak – Lesley
Joseph
Mona – Barbara
Young
Matron –
Billy Flynn
– Tim Flavin
Mary
Sunshine – J. Gavin
Prisoner - Lynda
Barron
The
Stephen Hill Singers
- Mary Carewe, Jo Thompson, Anne Skeates, Elizabeth
Watts, Susan Flannery, Michael Cahill, Derek Chessor, Jim
Graeme, Stephen Hill, David Unwin, and, Michael Winsor
Roxie &
Velma’s Boys - Michael Conran, Stephen
Grant, Craig Horwood, and, Paul Robinson
Highlights From: Side By Side By Sondheim
Narrator – Ned
Sherrin
Featuring:
Jae
Alexander
Lynda
Barron
Gaye
Brown
Lorna
Dallas
Susannah
Fellows
Fenella
Fielding
Tricia
George
Louise
Gold
Anita
Harris
Michael
Howe
Lesley
Joseph
David
Kernan
Bonnie
Langford
Martin
Smith
Barbara
Young
and The
Stephen Hill Singers
Production Team
Producer
- David Kernan
Director - Maximillian
Jacobson-Gonzalez
Music (
Lyrics
(Chicago - Fred Ebb
Music (Side By
Side By Sondheim) - Stephen Sondheim, with Jule Styne
Lyrics (Side
By Side By Sondheim) - Stephen Sondheim
Orchestra
(Chicago) - Clive Chaplin, Martin Drover, John Elliott, Barry
Graham, Dick Ichnatowicz, Elizabeth McConkey, Stuart
Pedler, Graham Russell, Mike Smith, Bob Sydor, Jim
Wilson, and, Barry deZouza
Conductor
(Chicago) - Jae Alexander
Pianists
(Side By Side By Sondheim) - Jason Carr and Stuart Pedler
Running Order (Side
By Side By Sondehim)
Beautiful Girls - Jae Alexander, David Kernan & The Stephen Hill
Singers
If Mama Were Married - Lesley Joseph and Louise Gold
Company Intro
- The Stephen Hill Singers
Another Hundred People - Bonnie Langford
Good Thing Going - Martin Smith
I Never Do Anything Twice - Fenella Fielding
Send In The Clowns - Anita Harris
Buddy’s Blues
- Michael Howe
Broadway Baby
- Bonnie Langford
Somewhere - Gaye
Brown
Gimmick (You Gotta Get A Gimmick) - Lynda Barron, Tricia George and
David Kernan
Losing My Mind
- Susannah Fellows
Ladies Who Lunch - Barbara Young
No More / Being Alive - Lorna Dallas and Martin Smith
Sunday - The
Stephen Hill Singers
Side By Side By Side - The Company
Louise Gold’s character Liz in
A photograph of Lesley Joseph and Louise
Gold appearing together in the show was printed with The Brighton
Evening Argos’s report of the show)
Most of the performers taking part in this concert
version of Chicago (in fact everyone except Kathryn Evans
and Tim Flavin), had played the same roles in a concert staging of Chicago,
at The Victoria Palace Theatre, just over two months earlier in the
concert Chicago & Company, which was
also produced by David Kernan and directed by Maximillian
Jacobson-Gonzalez (with David Kernan). Most of the Stephen Hill
Singers (the exceptions being Elizabeth Watts, Susan Flannery
and Michael Winsor) had also taken part in that earlier show. Susannah
Fellows, Ned Sherrin,
Producer David Kernan had of course been in the
original production of Side By Side By Sondheim. Over the years
he has sung Barcelona with many different women, among them: Julia McKenzie
(in both the original Side By Side By Sondheim and both the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala and Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala), Liz Robertson (possibly when she was
understudying in the original production of Side By Side By Sondheim,
and certainly in the 1999 Chelmsford revival of Side By Side By Sondheim), and, Maria
Friedman (in Sondheim At The
Barbican)
Louise Gold went on to sing If
Mama Were Married in both the
Some of the singers taking part have sung on other
occasions songs which were sung here, but not by them, for example:
Bonnie Langford had actually sung If
Mama Were Married when she played June Havoc in a production of Gypsy
Louise Gold went on to sing: Good
Thing Going (in Merrily We
Roll Along (Stage) and on the album Merrily We Roll Along (Recording)),
Another Hundred People (in Sondheim
At The Barbican), Broadway Baby (in Curtain
Up), and I Never Do Anything Twice, Send In The Clowns,
and, You Gotta Get A Gimmick in the Chelmsford revival of Side By Side By Sondheim.
Lynda Baron, and, Louise Gold
may have previously appeared together in Will-Aid
David Kernan may also have appeared in
Will-Aid, and Ned Sherrin may also have been
involved with the show.
It is possible that Susan Flannery may also
have appeared in Will-Aid, that show had an actress
named Sue Flannery in it.
Louise Gold and Kathryn Evans
went on to star together in Follies
David Kernan, Ned Sherrin, Fenella
Fielding, Michael Howe, Bonnie Langford, Martin Smith
and Josephine Blake went on to appear in A Time To Start Living, which Stephen
Hill Singers: Mary Carewe and Stephen Hill did appear in and:
Elizabeth Watts, Susan Flannery, Jim Graeme, David
Unwin may have appeared in, and which also Michael Conran may have
appeared in, and
Ned Sherrin, Jack Tinker, Louise
Gold, Gaye Brown, Lesley Joseph, Lorna Dallas, Fenella
Fielding, Tricia George, Michael Howe, Martin Smith
and The Stephen Hill Singers had previously appeared in Kids At Heart, directed by David Kernan,
which Josephine Blake, Pam St Clemant, Barbara Young and Craig
Horwood and Stephen Grant may have appeared in. And for which Stuart
Pedlar was also an arranger.
Josephine Blake’s recording credits
include The History Of The Musical
Gaye Brown, Martin Smith and Ned
Sherrin had previously appeared in a concert of highlights from the Ratepayers Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado.
Teddy Kempner and Louise Gold
had previously appeared together in Angry
Housewives. They went on to appear together in Something For The Boys and One Touch Of Venus (1992 Production).
Tim Flavin’s recording credits
include: On The Town, Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals and The History Of The
Musical; his television credits include A
Week In The West End.
Lorna Dallas had previously appeared
in The Royal Variety
Performance (1982), she went on to appear as a contestant on the BBC Radio
quiz Let’s Do The Show Right Here,
and on stage in Happily Ever After.
David Kernan and The Stephen Hill
Singers (including Derek Chessor) went on to feature in Sondehim At The Barbican.
Ned Sherrin’s writing credits
include: The Metropolitan Mikado, which Martin
Smith had previously appeared in
Ned Sherrin’s writing credits also
include Ziegfeld, some of his material is
included on the album Ziegfeld (Recording).
Ned Sherrin and Fenella Fielding
went on to appear on Ned Sherrin’s Review Of
Revue.
Louise Gold, Lorna Dallas, Fenella
Fielding, and David Kernan went on to appear in the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala at Wavenden, which Ned Sherrin also narrated, Stuart Pedlar was
also a pianist, and in which Louise Gold also sang If Mama Were
Married.
David Kernan, Louise Gold, and, Ned Sherrin went on to appear in Side
By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala.
Ned Sherrin, David Kernan and Louise
Gold went on to appear in Noel/Cole:
Let’s Do It, for which
Louise Gold and David Kernan
went on to appear together in a revival of Side By Side By Sondheim (in
Bonnie Langford had previously appeared
in The Pirates Of Penzance (Stage
production), and as a member of that company in The Pirates Of Penzance
(Gala Preview) and The
Royal Variety Performance (1982).
Louise Gold, David Kernan, Ned
Sherrin, and, Martin Smith may have gone on to appear in Comedy Tonight
Martin Smith’s recording credits
include Great Duets From The
Musicals
Jim Graeme’s recording credits
include (as James Graeme) Simply Musicals.
Jim Graeme (as
James Graeme)’s recording credits include Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals.
Susannah Fellows went on to take over the
role of Tanya in Mamma Mia (for Cast 4) from Louise
Gold (who had played in the part in Cast 2 & Cast 3).
Director Maximillian Jacobson-Gonzalez went on
to become the resident director of the first
Mary Carewe and Lorna Dallas’s
recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century, and, The Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes,
Blushing Maidens.
Lesley Joseph went on to
appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
James Graeme, and, Martin Smith’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales.
Lorna Dallas, and Martin Smith’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals – Glamour And
Majesty, which Susannah Fellows
may have sung on.
Mary Carewe, Lorna Dallas, James Graeme, David Kernan,
and, Martin Smith’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Laughter
And Tears.
After Ned
Sherrin’s death The Company Of
Mary Poppins’s FUNdraising special was dedicated to him (that included Bonnie Langford’s niece, Scarlett
getting ribbed about her family)
Jim Wilson had previously
played in the orchestra for Anything Goes (stage show).
Critics Comments
“Lesley
Joseph and Louise Gold helped to bring the glitter of Broadway to Brighton last
night, when they appeared in a charity gala to raise money for aids. Lesley,
from the TV comedy series Birds Of A Feather, and singer Louise were among a
galaxy of stars appearing at The Dome.” THE BRIGHTON EVENING
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