Kids At Heart
Louise Gold was one of the Guest-Artistes in Kids At
Heart at The London Palladium on Sunday 20th January 1991, a
fundraising even for Medical Aid for Free Romania.
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
Subject to Availability: Maria Aitken, Russ
Abbot, Alan Bates, Lynda Baron, Madelaine Bell, Gillian
Bevan, Christopher Biggins, Debbie Bishop, Joesphine Blake,
Melvyn Bragg, Gaye Brown, Dora Bryan, Marti Caine, Petula
Clark, Joan Collins, Ronnie Corbett, Iieana Cotrubas, Lorna
Dallas, Les Dennis, Edward Duke, Fenella Fielding, Derek
Fowlds, Emma Freud, Maria Friedman, Tricia George, Aiden
Gillet, Louise Gold, Nicholas Grace, Simon Green, Paul
Greenwood, The Stephen Hill Singers, Patricia Hodge, Michael Howe,
Sally Ann Howes, Glenda Jackson, Lesley Joseph, Gorden
Kaye, Grace Kennedy, Sarah Kestleman, Stephanie Lawrence, Maureen
Lipman, Philip Mandelli, Nichola McAuliffe, Geraldine McEwan,
Roger McGough, Ian McKellen, Robert Meadmore, Alfred
Molina, Claire Moore, Ken Page, Trevor Peacock, Clarke
Peters, Shezwae Powell, Suzi Quatro, Claire Rayner, Jemma
Redgrave, Angharad Rees, Angela Richards, Pam St Clement, Terry
Scott, Ned Sherrin, Carmen Silvera, Sinitta, Martin Smith,
Jack Tinker, Jill Washington, Ruby Wax, Elisabeth Welch,
Carol Woods, Mark Wynter, Barbara Young.
Additional Artistes: Joss Ackland, Earlene Bentley, Isla Blair, Karla Burns,
Magdalena Buznea, Cavin Cornwall, Sara Crowe, Ebony Francis, Phillip
Gammonm, Julian Glover, Dollie Henry, Robert Hill, Evelyn Laye, Gareth Marks,
Verona Marsh, Jessica Martin, Vicki Michelle, Bonnie Moore, Susannah Page,
Delvin Straker, Dudley Sutton
Extra Artistes: Christopher O’Mara, Lucy Dixon, Michelle Hooper, David
Kernan,
Also Appearing:
The Boys
From The Bill -
Larry Dann, Peter Ellis, Huw Higginson, Kevin Lloyd, Andrew Macintosh, Ben
Roberts, Jeff Stewart & Colin Tarrant
The
Stephen Hill Singers
– Mary Carewe, Derek Chessor, Lee Gibson, Jim Graeme, Simon Haldane, Janet
Mooney, Linda de Pauw, Anne Skates, Jo Thompson, Clive Walton, Michael Winson
& Philip Wrigley
The Chris
Power Dancers –
Jacqui Boatswain, Cavin Cornwell, David Danns, Brenda Glassman, Stephen Grant,
Sue Hadleigh, Dollie Henry, Stephen Joseph, Jan Lloyd, Leigh Miles, Nigel Shaw,
Robert Wheeler & John Willet
The
‘Cats’ Company –
Jacqui Boatswain, Joanna Dunn, Nichola Keen, Barbara King, Wendy Kitching,
Marina Stevenson, Louise Tomkins, Lisa Waddington
The Ralph
Reader Gang –
Andrew Ableson, Andrew Bullock, Mark Clayton, Neil Couperthwaite, Philip
Davies, Christopher Gee, Adrian Hardwicke, Alex Hartland, Nigel Harman, Simon
Prendergast, Anthony Read, Edwin Robson
The Jeff
Thacker Dancers –
Eddie Burton, Richard Calkin, Gerad Casey, Tracy Cree, Martin Croft, Sarah
Drummond, Nick Ferranti, Joan Handley, Craig Horwood, Paul Neam, Tommy O’Brien,
Loretta O’Neal, Martin Ryan, Dawn Spence, Angela Tyas & Leander Wiseman
Production Team
Presented by
– Show People 90
Directed by
– David Kernan
Compiled by
– John Kane
Principal
Conductor – Michael Reed
Guest
Director – Elijah Moshinsky
Principal Choreographers
– Chris Power & Jeff Thacker
Associate
Producer – Maria Friedman
Other
Arrangers – Stuart Pedlar, Bunny Thompson, Harvey Brough, Kenny
Clayton, Martin Smith,
Other
Choreographers – Doreen Hermitage, Stephanie Carter, Kenneth
McMillan,
Other
Conductors – Sandy Burnett,
Orchestra
Leader - Richard Friedman
Running Order
Act 1
Take Me To
Your Heart – Christopher O’Mara (Arranged by Stuart Pedlar)
When That I
Was A Little Tiny Boy -
His Love
Makes Me Beautiful – Lynda Baron, Gaye Brown, Marti Caine,
Tricia George, Louise Gold, Lesley Joseph, Barbara
Young, (Arranged by Bunny Thompson, Staged by Jeff Thacker)
Pregnancy – Russ
Abbott & Les Dennis
Roger
McGough – Roger McGough
God Bless
The Child – Earlene Bentley (arranged by Harvey Brough)
Baby Song
Medley – Debby Bishop, Michael Howe, Angela Richards,
(Arranged by Michael Read, Staged by Jeff Thacker)
Miniature –
Moonshine
Lullaby – Suzi Quatro
Burglar Bill
– Alan Bates, Sara Crowe & Alfred Molina
Angharad
Rees – Angharad Rees
Listen With
Mother – Maureen Lipman
Never, Never
Land – Sally Ann Howes & The Stephen Hill Singers
Nursery
Rhymes – Marti Caine, & The Stephen Hill Singers (Arranged by
Stuart Pedlar)
Childhood – Ronnie
Corbett
Thank Heaven
For Little Girls – Gorden Kaye & plus guests
A moment
with Terry Scott – Terry Scott
The Wizard
of Oz The Wiz – Gillian Bevan, Simon Green, Paul Greenwood,
Trevor Peacock, Shezwae Powell, & Sinitta (Arranged by
Kenny Clayton, Staged by Chris Power)
Walt Disney
Medley – Lorna Dallas, Claire Moore, Martin Smith,
(Arranged by Martin Smith &
Act 2
Macavity – Lucy
Dixon, Michaelle Hooper and The ‘Cats’ Company
Five Go Off
To Camp – Maria Aitken, Melvyn Bragg, Joan Collins, Edward
Duke, Ian McKellan & Ned Sherrin
The Ralph
Reader Gang Show – Christopher Biggins, Derek Fowlds, Nicholas
Grace, Michael Howe, David Kernan, Phillip Mandelli, Jack
Tinker, & Mark Wynter (Staged by Doreen Hermitage,
Arranged by Steve Edis)
3 Spoken Pieces
– Fenella Fielding
Do Re Mi – Petula
Clarke and The Boys from The Bill: Larry Dann, Peter Ellis, Huw
Higginson, Kevin Llyod, Andrew Macintosh, Ben Roberts, Jeff Stewart & Colin
Tarrant (Arranged by Stuart Pedlar, Staged by Stephanie Carter)
60’s Medley
– Madelaine Bell, Maria Friedman, Louise Gold & Claire
Moore (Staged by Chris Power, Orchestrated by Ted Brennan,
Conducted by Sandy Burnett)
Romeo And
Juliet – Aiden Gillet & Jemma Redgrave
Pas de Deux
(Choreography by Kenneth McMillan)
Childhood – Glenda
Jackson
A Romanian
Song – Pianist Carmina Sarbu & Violinist Eugene Sarbu
(Arranged by Stuart Pedler)
Let Them
Live – Christopher O’Mara, Zoe Sailsman, and the children from: St
Judes &
One wonders if the actor Aiden Gillet might
really be a misspelling of Aden Gillet, who’s TV credits include The House Of Eliott, and whose stage credits
include Mary Poppins.
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman,
and, Claire Moore went on to record together on the JAY/TER
recording of Cabaret which Lucy Dixon and Dawn
Spence also appear on.
Louise Gold, Maria Friedman,
and, Lucy Dixon also went on to appear together in Merrily We Roll Along (Stage Production)
and on the Merrily We Roll Along
(Recording)
A track of Louise Gold and Claire Moore’s
recording work from Cabaret was also included on Encore The Very Best From The
Musicals an album which Schezwae Powell also sang on.
Martin Smith’s recording work includes
Great Duets From The Musicals
He had previously appeared in The
Metropolitan Mikado.
Martin Smith and Maria Friedman went
on to appear in A Time To Start Living.
Ned Sherrin had previously written
material for Metropolitan Mikado
Shezwae Powell and Elisabeth Welch’s
recording credits include: Cole Porter
- Night And Day
Christopher Biggins, Robert Meadmore,
and, Claire Moore’s recording credits include Simply Musicals.
Christopher Biggins,
and, Lucy Dixon may have gone on to appear in Dear
Ralph.
Kevin Lloyd had previously appeared
in Billy The Kid And The Green
Baize Vampire
David Kernan and Paul Bateman’s
recording credits include featuring with Louise Gold on Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It (Recording).
David Kernan, and, Robert Meadmore, along with Louise Gold went on to appear in Side By Side By Sondheim.
Show People ’90 Limited went on to present the
first proper British production of Noel/Cole:
Let's Do It in Oxford, which Sally
Ann Howes, Louise Gold David Kernan, and
Nick Feranti, Maria Friedman,
Simon Green, Schezwae Powell, and, Josephine Blake’s
recording credits include The History Of
The Musical
Schezwae Powell went on to appear in Follies
Maria Aitken, Gillian Bevan, Christopher
Biggins, and, Jessica Martin went on to appear in Regents Park 70th Anniversary Gala
to which Steven Edis also contributed.
Jessica Martin’s recording credits
include Spit In Your Ear she has appeared at
Dress Circle Grand Reopening
Joss Ackland appeared in Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Ned Sherrin and Paul Batemen
had previously worked on the musical Ziegfeld
and it’s album Ziegfeld (recording)
Gaye Brown, Robert Meadmore, Ned
Sherrin, and Martin Smith had previously appeared in Ratepayers' Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado
Robert Meadmore and Christopher
Biggins had previously appeared in The Soap
Opera.
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 had previously been involved with Chicago & Company.
David Kernan, Ned Sherrin, Jack
Tinker, Louise Gold, Gaye Brown, Lesley Joseph, Lynda
Baron, Tricia George, Michael Howe, Martin Smith and Josephine
Blake, Pam St Clemant, Barbara Young, and Craig Horwood,
Stephen Grant and The Stephen Hill Singers went on to be
involved, along with Lorna Dallas and Fenella Fielding with Broadway To Brighton for which Stewart
Pedlar was a pianist and orchestra member.
Lynda Baron, Maria Friedman,
and, Louise Gold may have previously appeared together in Will-Aid also directed by David Kernan.
Alan Bates, Simon Green, Sally
Ann Howes, David Kernan, Sara Kestleman, Gareth Marks,
Nichola McAuliffe, Geraldine McEwan, Robert Meadmore, Claire
Moore, and, Angela Richards may also have appeared in Will-Aid, and Ned Sherrin may also have been
involved with it. It is also possible that Nicholas
Grace could have appeared in it (there was an actor named Nickolas Grace in it).
Gillian Bevan, Martie Caine, Louise
Gold, David Kernan, Claire Moore, Ned Sherrin, and, Martin
Smith may have gone on to appear in Comedy
Tonight, which David Kernan also directed. It’s possible that Loretta
O’Neal could also have appeared in it as an ensemble player named Loretta
O’Neill.
Lorna Dallas had previously appeared
on The Royal Variety
Performance (1982), she went on to appear in Happily Ever After.
Lorna Dallas and Jessica Martin
went on to be guest contestants on the BBC Radio quiz Let’s Do The Show Right Here.
Lorna Dallas, Robert Meadmore, and, Ned Sherrin went on to appear in the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala.
Ned Sherrin, Fenella Fielding,
Jessica Martin, and, Patricia Hodge went on to appear on Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue
Robert Meadmore had previously appeared
in Metropolitan Mikado, and, Julia And Company, he went on to take part in Hubert Gregg’s Memorial Service.
Andrew Mackintosh, Ben Roberts, and,
Jeff Stewart were still in The Bill four
years later (when Louise Gold appeared in an episode).
Louise Gold had previously appeared
at The London Palladium in The Royal Variety Performance
(1977), Ziegfeld, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Nicola McAuliffe went on to originate on
stage the role of Baroness Bomburst at The London Palladium in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. On that stage
production’s last cast change, Louise Gold took over the role of
Baroness Bomburst, to Christopher Biggins’s Baron Bomburst.
Lorna Dallas ( and indeed Petula
Clarke and Stephanie Lawrence)’s recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century, which
Gordon Kaye along with Vicki
Michelle and Carmen Silvera’s television credits include Allo Allo.
David Kernan, Simon Green, Maureen Lipman, Robert Meadmore,
Christopher Biggins, Derek Fowlds, and, Ned Sherrin went on to appear in Side
By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala.
Simon Green, Robert Meadmore, and, Angela Richards went on to appear in A Love Letter To Dan, as did Patricia Hodge, and, Jessica Martin, and also Lesley Joseph. One of the
choreographers was also Doreen Hermitage.
That gala also included amongst its company a performer named Nicola Keen, which might possibly be Nichola Keen.
Glenda Jackson had been a
Guest Star on The Muppet
Show.
Louise
Gold, Claire Moore,
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
Gillian Bevan, Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, and, Claire
Moore’s recording credits include Centre
Stage Showtime!.
After Ned
Sherrin’s death The Company Of
Mary Poppins’s late night FUNdraising cabaret special was dedicated to him.
Lorna Dallas, and, Robert Meadmore (and indeed Stephanie Lawrence, and, Elisabeth Welch)’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals –
Dashing Heroes, Blushing Maidens.
Lorna Dallas, David Kernan, and, Martin Smith (and indeed Elisabeth
Welch)’s recording credits include The
Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears.
Bunny Thompson had previously
played the piano and conducted Anything Goes (stage show).
Robert Meadmore has gone on to take part in Shopping With The Stars, which Nicholas Grace may have appeared in
(well the actor Nickolas Grace took
part in it).
Links about Kids At
Heart
About Maria page for Kids At Heart: http://www.aboutmaria.com/kidsatheart.html
