Julia And Company
- A Julia McKenzie Special
Louise Gold
featured as one of four “newcomers” to television, Thames Television, recorded
June 1986, broadcast Tuesday 9 September 1986
Cast
Starring - Julia McKenzie
And Featuring - George Hearn
With Special Guest - Millicent Martin
Introduced by - Anton Rogers
And Introducing Four “Newcomers” to television - Robert Meadmore, Louise Gold, Erick Ray Evans, and, Sophie Winter
Production Team
Directed
by - Peter Frazer-Jones
For a review/account of the programme please click here.
It was rather
inaccurate to describe Louise Gold as “New to television”,
besides having already established herself as one of the great ladies of
British television puppetry with The Muppet
Show and Spitting Image; she had
also already appeared on television in: BlackAdder,
For 4 Tonight, Rachel And The Roarettes, and been a regular member of the cast of Laugh...? I Nearly Paid My
Licence Fee.
Julia
McKenzie and Millicent Martin
went on to appear together in A Time To
Start Living.
Julia
McKenzie and Louise Gold went
on to appear together on the radio on Let’s
Do The Show Right Here.
Julia
McKenzie went on to guest on the
radio on Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue, her
recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Julia
McKenzie, Millicent Martin,
Robert Meadmore, and, Louise Gold went on to appear in the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala, and, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala.
Anton
Rogers and Millicent Martin
had previously appeared in The
Royal Variety Performance (1982).
Anton
Rogers,
and, Robert Meadmore may have
gone to appear on stage in Will Aid,
Anton Rogers went on to appear on television in A Week In The West End. He may have taken
part in Thing A Thon.
Millicent
Martin went on to appear in Comedy Tonight.
Robert
Meadmore and Louise Gold had
previously appeared together in leading role (The Mikado and Katisha) in The Metropolitan Mikado, and as a result
they also appeared in A Concert Of Highlights From The Ratepayers Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado. They went on to appear together in The Soap Opera, Side By Side By Sondheim, Hubert
Gregg’s Memorial Service, and, Shopping With The Stars 2008.
Robert
Meadmore went on to appear in Kids At Heart, and, A Love Letter To Dan; his recording credits
include Simply Musicals, The Great Musicals – Dashing Heroes,
Blushing Maidens, and, 100 Hits Musicals.
Thames
Television also produced The Bill, and broadcast The Ghost Of Faffner Hall.
Interestingly
both the girls among the “newcomers” had trained (at one time or
another) at The Arts Educational School, when it was based in the
Barbican area.
Julia McKenzie and Millicent
Martin, in their costumes as The Dolly Sisters, appeared on
the cover of that week’s (6 to 12 September 1986) TV Times.
The Dolly Sisters were
also represented in the musical Ziegfeld.
Louise Gold went on to pay tribute to Dick Vosburgh in A Celebration
Of The Life And Work Of Dick Vosburgh, where she got to sing Film
Cliche!
Critics Comments
Links about Julia And Company
The Sophie
Winter Memorial Trust (in their
biography of Sophie, they specifically mention her work on Julia &
Company): http://www.sophiewintertrust.org/biog.htm
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