Joseph And The Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat (
Louise Gold featured, as one of Jacob’s Wives, Adoring
Maidens and others, at York Theatre Royal. Between from Friday 12 December 1975
to Saturday 10 January 1976
Cast
Narrator - Richard
Denning
Joseph - David
Baxt
Pharaoh - Clive
Arrindell
Potiphar’s
Wife - Joan Heal
Jacob - Ian
Barritt
Joseph’s
Brothers (and others) - Andrew Blake, Clive Carter, John Cogan,
Hywel David, Gene Ford, Nigel Jeffcoat, Peter Mantle,
Adam Richardson, Crispin Thomas, and, Fraser Wilson
Jacob’s
Wives, Adoring Maidens and others - Jill Collins, Louise Gold,
and, Jeanie Hammersleigh, and Diana Van Fossen
Choir -
Children of
Choir A: Catherine Beevers, Jill Britton,
Sharon Clark, Adrian Conroy, Julie Curtis, Robert
Fonseca, Susanna Fox, Michele Green, Anne Harrison, Elisabeth
Hewitson, Sean Hill, Caroline Kelsey, Alistair North, Imogen
Rea, Gillian Reader, John Reader, Andrew Santon, Clare
Smith, Beverley Taylor, Helen Tolhurst, Nicola Tolhurst,
Rachel Tolhurst, Pascale Vassie, Elizabeth Vatcher, and, Lorraine
Wilson.
Choir B: Sarah Binns, Andrew
Black, Catherine Brassington, Jill Cooper, Josephine
Crothers, Simon Dickinson, Carol Dodsworth, Nichola
Heywood, Allan Horsley, Deborah Jackson, Catherine Keeley,
Stuart Leatham, Jane McLaughlin, Mark Mitchell, Jane
Newcombe, Clare Orton, Fiona Owers, Rupert Powell, Lisa
Richardson, Louise Sharp, Catherine A. Smith, Catherine E.
Smith, Janet Syme, Julie Ward, and, John Wright
Production Team
Presented
By - York Theatre Royal Company by arrangement with Miranda
Enterprises, The Robert Stigwood Organisation and David Land
Lyrics by - Tim
Rice
Music by - Andrew
Lloyd-Webber
Directed and
staged by - Richard Digby Day
Choreography
by - Michael Vernon
Design by - Helen
Wilkinson
Lighting by
- Peter Clayton and Robert Gawlinski
Chorus
Master - Les Floater
Musical
Director - Andrew Jubb
Orchestra
(by arrangement with Oxford Pro Musica)
Piano and Organ - Andrew Jubb
Bass Guitar - Paul Judge
Trumpet - John King
Lead Guitar - Alan Pritchard
Clarinet and Bass Clarinet - Paul
Sergeant
Percussion - John Veale
Flute and Clarinet - Anna Zee
Stage
Manager - Kim Robinson
Deputy Stage
Manager - Glyn Putwain
Assistant Stage
Managers - Peta Masters and Kit Lawson
Joan Heal originated the role of Potiphar’s wife in
the first professional production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor
Deamcoat by the Young Vic Company at The Edinburgh Festival
in 1971.
Louise Gold went on to appear in
further productions of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
on Tour.,
and in productions in Norwich and
Reading.
On the tour besides appearing in the chorus, Louise played Potphar’s wife. She
also played the latter role in Norwich and
Reading.
John Cogan also went on to appear in
a touring production of Joseph And The
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which for a time Kim Robinson was Deputy Stage Manager of.
It seems quite likely that one of Louise Gold’s
performances in this production of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, took place two years to the day of her professional stage
debut in Dick Whittington.
Louise Gold, John Cogan, Adam
Richardson, and, Clive Carter had previously appeared together in a
production of My
Fair Lady for which Michael Vernon had also done the choreography.
Clive Carter may have gone on to
appear in Dear Ralph, and, Comedy Tonight
York Theatre Royal is a rather unusual
theatre, in that it’s structure incorporates part of
Richard Digby Day went on to direct Louise
Gold some eleven years later in Nunsense
in the intervening time Louise learnt to puppeteer, which came in very handy in
Nunsense (as her character had to sing a duet
with a puppet).
Louise Gold subsequently returned to York Theatre Royal to play Mary Mooney
in the play Once A Catholic.
Composer Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber went on to be
interviewed on television on A Week In The
West End.
Critics Comments
“The “brothers” are a great bunch of comedy
singers. They are Andrew Blake, Ian Barritt, Clive Carter, John Cogan, Hywel
David, Gene Foad, Nigel Jeffcoat, Peter Mantle, Adam Richardson, Crispin
Thomas, and fraser Wilson. And the girls – Jill Collins, Diane Van Fossen,
Louise Gold, and, Jeanie Hammersleigh – never miss a trick in the many shocks
of laughter they supply.” T.S.W.,
THE STAGE, 15 January 1976, p31.
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