Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Louise Gold featured, as Miss Trixie Flynn, at The
Golders Green Hipperdrome, Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 21 March 1994
Cast
Readers,
Henchmen, Wives, Sales Girls, Blue Shirts, The
Miss Trixie
Flynn - Louise Gold
General Adam
Snookfield (Snooky) - Christopher Benjamin
A Flunky,
and, An Army Lieutenant - Matt Zimmerman
Louis
Lippman - Frank Lazarus
Francis X.
Gilhooley - Vincent Marzello
Matthew
Arnold Fulton - Jonathan Kydd
Mrs Mary
Wintergreen nee Turner - Kim Criswell
John P.
Wintergreen - Denis Quilley
Chief
Justice Of Supreme Court - Bruce Ogston
Alexander
Throttlebottem - Joss Ackland
Kreuger - Henry
Goodman
John P
Tweedledee - Nick Holder
Narrator - Robert
Cushman
with:
David Holt, The BBC Theatre Chorus
Production Team
Music
- George Gershwin
Lyrics - Ira
Gershwin
Book - George
S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
Original
Production - 21 October 1933, Imperial Theatre, with Grace Worth
as Miss Trixie Flynn
Orchestra - The
BBC Concert Orchestra
Musical
Director - Barry Wordsworth
Orchestra
Leader - Martin Loveday
Chorus
Master - Roderick Dunk
Chorus Manager
- Stephen Ashley-King
Technical
Presentation - James Hamilton
Producer - Chris
Neil and Tim Thorn
For a review of Let ‘Em Eat Cake, please click here.
Let ‘Em Eat Cake was quite literally the successor to a Gershwin musical, also by George
S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, originally produced two years earlier,
Of Thee I Sing. It follows the story of what
happened to the central characters in Of Thee I
Sing four years on from the end of that show.
Louise Gold and Henry Goodman went on to appear in a Lost Musicals
production of Let ‘Em Eat Cake’s predecessor, Of Thee I Sing, only this time Henry Goodman
played John P. Wintergreen. In addition they had previously appeared together
in the politically oriented Sondheim musical Assassins,
they went on to appear in the Sondheim musical Follies.
Louise Gold and Christopher Benjamin went on to appear together in 110 In The Shade .
Louise Gold and Frank Lazarus appeared together in New Girl In Town.
Louise Gold and Matt Zimmerman have appeared together in Anything Goes (stage show) and on: Anything Goes (recording) - Website
Recommended Album, and, Cole Porter - Night And Day.
Louise Gold and Bruce Ogston are on the albums Cabaret.and
with Matt Zimmerman Anything Goes (recording) - Website
Recommended Album.
Matt Zimmerman previously appeared in The
Royal Variety Performance (1982)
Matt Zimmerman and Bruce Ogston’s recording credits include On The Town.
Kim Criswell and Matt Zimmerman’s recording credits include The History Of The Musical and The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century
Kim Criswell’s recording credits include Encore! The Very Best From
The Musicals, Simply Musicals,
and, The Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears.
Louise Gold and Kim Criswell went on to appear together in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and on the
album On The Town.
Joss Ackland may have appeared in Kids At Heart.
Denis Quilley went on to appear at the Regent’s Park 70th Anniversary
Gala, where his task was to introduce a trio of singers, including Louise
Gold who were there “to sing for their supper”.
The BBC Concert Orchestra had previously played for
Sondheim At The Barbican.
The BBC Concert Orchestra went on to play for a
production of Du Barry Was A Lady (2001
Production) starring Louise Gold, which was also broadcast on BBC
Radio 3.
The Imperial Theatre in New York was also the
venue for the original production of the Gershwin musical Oh
Kay (which Louise Gold starred in a concert staging of at Barbican
Cinema 1) and the Kurt Weill musical One Touch Of Venus,
which Louise Gold starred in concert stagings at Barbican Cinema 1
(see One Touch Of Venus (1992 Production))
and The Linbury Studio Theatre (see One
Touch Of Venus (2000 Production))
A little later in the year (1994) Chris Neil
went on to produce the BBC Radio quiz Let’s
Do The Show Right Here (on which Louise Gold was a Team Captain).
Louise Gold and David Holt
have gone on to appear together on the CD The
Wartime Picnics.
Having appeared with Denis
Quilley in this broadcast, Louise Gold went on to appear in a gala
given in Denis Quilley’s memory, Happily Ever After.
Henry Goodman has gone on to
appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
Kim Criswell, and Denis Quilley’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals - Wonderful Tales.
Kim Criswell, and, Barry Wordsworth’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals – Glamour And
Majesty.
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