Chicago & Company
Louise Gold appeared in this double bill gala for
World Aids Day, at The Victoria Palace, on Sunday 2 December 1990
The show was a World Aids Day gala production
fundraising event for Crusaid, presenting a double of two classic musicals, Chicago
and Company. The production was dedicated (by David Kernan)
to the memory of Jill Bennett.
Cast
Narrator – Jack
Tinker
Velma Kelly
– Josephine Blake
Roxie Hart –
Diane Langton
Amos Hart – Teddy
Kempner
Liz – Louise
Gold
Annie – Gaye
Brown
June –
Toni Palmer
Hunyak –
Lesley Joseph
Mona – Barbara
Young
Matron –
Billy Fly – Dave
Willets
Mary
Sunshine – J. Gavin
The Boys – Gary
Forecast, Stephen Grant, Neil Reinolds, and, Tim Wilkins
Chorus – The
Stephen Hill Singers
Company
Narrator – Ned
Sherrin
Robert – Nicolas
Colicos
Joanne – Angela
Richards
Harry – John
Barrowman
David – David
Malek
Larry – Glyn
Kerslake
Marta – Maria
Friedman
Amy./Kathy –
Susannah Fellows
April – Liz
Robertson
The Stephen
Hill Singers: Jae Alexander, Michael Cahill, Mary Carewe, Derek
Chessor, Adrian Clance, Linda Depauw, Jean Gilbert,
Jim Graeme, Stephen Hill, Samantha Shaw, Anne Skates, Taffy
Taylor, Jo Thompson, David Urwin, Feliz Watts, and, Philip
Wrigley
Production Team
Presented by
-
Producer – David
Kernan
Directed by
– David Kernan & Max Jacobson-Gonzalez
Music (
Lyrics (
Music &
Lyrics (Company) – Stephen Sondheim
Staged by – Lindsay
Dolan, Jeff Thacker &
Orchestra
Conducted by – Jae Alexander,
Keyboard
players – Stewart Pedlar and Colin Freeman
Production
Supervisor – Bob West
Wardrobe
Consultant – Robert Gordon
Hair – Simon
Thompson
Make-Up – Nosh
Sound – Alpha
Audio
Lighting – David
Leach
Louise Gold’s character Liz in
Most of the performers taking part in this concert
version of Chicago (in fact everyone except Diane Langton
and Dave Willets) went on to play the same roles in the Chicago
part of the concert Broadway To Brighton
which David Kernan also produced and Maxillian Jacobson-Gonzalez
also directed. Many of The Stephen Hill Singers (the exceptions being: Adrian
Clance, Linda Depauw, Jean Gilbert, Samantha Shaw, Taffy
Taylor, Jo Thompson, Feliz Watts and Philip Wrigley)
also took part in the later show. Susannah Fellows, Ned Sherrin,
Diane Langton went on to appear in a
West End revival of
Liz Robertson went on to sing April’s
Maria Friedman, Angela Richards
and The Stephen Hill Singers went on to sing Sondheim in Sondheim At The Barbican where Angela
Richards sang The Ladies Who Lunch.
Angela Richards also went on to sing The
Ladies Who Lunch in the Side By Side By
Sondheim 25th Anniversary Gala.
David Kernan, Ned Sherrin, Jack
Tinker, Louise Gold, Gaye Brown, Lesley Joseph, Lynda
Baron, and Josephine Blake, Maria Friedman, Pam St Clemant,
Barbara Young, Craig Horwood and The Stephen Hill Singers
and Stephen Grant went on to work on Kids At
Heart.
Animator Teddy Kempner and puppeteer
Louise Gold had previously appeared together in Angry Housewives, they went on to appear in The
Lost Musicals productions of One Touch Of
Venus (1992) and Something For The
Boys.
Glyn Kerslake, Ned Sherrin and Lindsay
Dolan had previously worked on Metropolitan
Mikado
Ned Sherrin, Gaye Brown, and, Glyn
Kerslake had previously appeared in Ratepayers' Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado for which Lindsay Dolan also did
choreography.
From the Company cast Maria Friedman
and Philip Wrigley went on to appear together in Sondheim’s Merrily
We Roll Along (Stage Production) and on the Merrily We Roll Along (Recording).
Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, Nicolas
Colicos, and Samantha Shaw went on to appear on a recording of John
Kander and Fred Ebb’s: Cabaret
Diane Langton’s recording credits
include: Cole Porter - Night And Day
and Defiant Dames
Liz Robertson’s recording credits
include: Cole Porter - Night And Day
and Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It
(Recording) , she went on to appear in Noel/Cole:
Let’s Do It and Regents Park 70th
Anniversary Gala, and to organise Shopping
With The Stars.
John Barrowman, Josephine Blake
and Maria Friedman’s recording credits include The History Of The Musical
Maria Friedman also appeared in A Time To Start Living
Ned Sherrin had previously written
material for the stage show Ziegfeld and it’s
album Ziegfeld (recording). He also
featured on Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue.
David Kernan’s recording credits
include: Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It
(Recording)
Keyboard player Stuart Pedlar was also a
pianist on Side By Side By Sondehim 25th
Anniversary gala.
Director and Producer David Kernan went on to
direct Louise Gold and Liz Robertson in: Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It , a revival of Side By Side By Sondheim and the Side
By Side's 25th Anniversary gala
David Kernan
also went on to appear in Sondheim At The
Barbican.
The Stephen Hill Singers had previously appeared in Kids At Heart,
and went on to appear in Sondheim At The
Barbican.
Louise Gold,
Diane Langton, and, Ned Sherrin may have gone on to appear in Comedy Tonight which David Kernan also
directed.
Jill Bennet may have appeared in Will-Aid, also directed by David Kernan, along
with Ned Sherrin, other artistes who may have appeared in that show
included: Maria Friedman, Angela Richards, Liz Robertson,
and, Michael Haslem.
Director Maximillian Jacobson-Gonzalez went on
to become the resident director of the first
Nicolas Colicos’s recording credits
include: Anything Goes (recording) - Website
Recommended Album,
and On The Town.
Nicolas Colicos went on to appear in Mamma Mia
Susannah Fellows went on to take over the
role of Tanya in Mamma Mia (Cast 4), from Louise
Gold (Cast 2 & Cast 3)
Louise Gold and Diane Langton
went on to appear together in Follies
John Barrowman and Jim Graeme (as
James Graeme)’s recording credits include Simply
Musicals.
Jim Graeme (as
James Graeme)’s recording credits include Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals.
Mary Carewe, and, Dave Willets’s
recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century, and, The Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes,
Blushing Maidens.
Liz Robertson, Ned Sherrin, and, Michael Haslem went on to appear in Side
By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala, which was directed by
David Kernan.
Lesley Joseph, and, Angela Richards went on to appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
James Graeme, and, Diane Langton’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales.
Dave Williets’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Glamour
And Majesty, which Susannah Fellows
may have sung on.
John Barrowman, and, Maria Friedman’s recording credits
include Centre Stage Showtime!.
Mary Carewe, James Graeme, David Kernan, Diane Langton,
and, Liz Robertson’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Laughter
And Tears.
John Barrowman, and, James Graeme’s recording credits
include Magic Of The Musicals, on which
Stuart Pedler also worked.
Renamed Theatrecares,
West End Cares went on to present The Company Of Mary Poppins, in a
FUNdraising special which they dedicated to Ned Sherrin.
Diane
Langton and Louise
Gold have gone on to appear together in Mary Poppins.
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& Company
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Company: http://www.aboutmaria.com/chicagocompany.html
