The Regents Park Open Air Theatre 70th Anniversary Gala
Louise Gold
featured, as herself playing Adriana from The
Boys From Syracuse, at The Regents Park Open Air Theatre, on 1 September
2002
Cast
Narrators
Ian Talbot and Judi Dench
Performers In Illustrative Extracts
David Alder (as a Major General from The Pirates
Of
Jamie Beamish
Paul Bentley (as Gremio from Kiss Me Kate)
John Berlyne
Gillian Bevan (as Luciana from The Boys From
Cameron Blackeley (as Charley from Where’s Charley)
Paul Bradley (as one of the cast from Pirates Of Penzance)
Steve Bradford
Harry Burton (as Harold Hill from The Music Man)
Claire Carrie (as Jennifer Rumson from Paint Your Wagon)
Jon Cartwright
Bernard Cribbins (as Watty Watkins from Lady Be Good)
John Conroy
Daniel Crossley (as A Pierrot from Oh What A Lovely War)
Alison Crowther
Benedict Cumberbatch
Joshua Dallas (as
Alicia Davies
Janie Dee (as
Peter Duncan (as Denny Machin from The Card)
Rodger Dunklee
Fiona Dunn
Howard Ellis
Karen Evans (as Mabel from The Pirates Of
Lucie Florentine
Peter Forbes
Jenny Galloway (as Luce from The Boys From
Louise Gold (as Adriana from The Boys From
Dickon Gough
Nigel Harman
Rebecca Hartley
Graeme Henderson (as Lucentio from Kiss Me Kate)
Sara Hiller
John Hodgkinson (as The Drill Sergeant from Oh What A Lovely War)
Eileen Hunter
Andrew Hutchings
Jimmy Johnston (as The Pirate King from The
Pirates Of
Ramin Karimloo
Abigail Langham
Adam Levy
Dominic Marsh (as A Pierrot from Oh What A Lovely War)
Jessica Martin (as Bunny Byron from Babes In Arms)
Caitlin Mottram
Tam Mutu (as A Pierrot from Oh What A Lovely War)
Audrey Palmer
Harry Peacock (as A Pierrot from Oh What A Lovely War)
Su Pollard (as Ruth from The Pirates Of
Lucy Quick (as Mabel from The Pirates Of
Issy Van Randwyck (as Bianca from Kiss Me Kate)
Joanne Redman
Joanna Riding (as Susie Trevor from Lady Be Good)
Liz Robertson (as Marian Paroo from The Music Man)
Mark Roper
Clive Rowe (as Gus Esmond from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Jenna Russell (as Nellie from The Card)
Michael Sadler
Liza Sadovy
Tony Selby (as Ben Rumson from Paint Your Wagon)
Gay Soper (as Ruth from The Pirates Of
Mark Umbers (as
Giles Taylor (as The Sergeant from The Pirates
Of
Paul Thornley (as Hortensio from Kiss Me Kate)
Andrew C Wadsworth (as Petruchio from Kiss Me Kate)
Gary Wilmot (As The Pirate King from The Pirates
Of
Guests
Maria Aitken
Billy Barker
Christopher Biggins
Rhys Ifans
Saeed Jaffrey
Rachel Kavanaugh
Natasha McElhone
Mr Medwin
Haley Mills
Tim Piggott-Smith
Denis Quilley
Carol Royle
Samantha Spiro
Paula Wilcox
Production Team
Artistic Director - Ian Talbot
Musical Director - Catherine Jayes
Orchestrations - Catherine Jayes, Steven Edis, William Barnett, Duncan Lamont Jnr
Band Members - Emma Fowler, Duncan Lamont Jnr, Richard Hammond, Liam Kirkham, David Berry, Robert Millett, William Barnett, Catherine Jayes
Choreography - Gillian Gregory, Lisa Kent, Kenn Oldfield
Sound Designer - Emma Laxton
Lighting Designer - Daniel Lloyd
Click here for a full review/account of the gala
All of the
performers appearing in the show had previously appeared with The New
Shakespeare Company at The Regents Park Open Air Theatre.
Louise Gold, Jenny Galloway, and Gillian Bevan
were in The Boys From Syracuse, as was
Samantha Spiro, directed by Judi Dench with musical direction by Catherine
Jayes, for which Kenn Oldfield did the choreography
Issy Van
Randwyck,
Samantha
Spiro, Jenny Galloway and Louise
Gold appeared in the 1991 production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, which was directed
by Ian Talbot with choreography by Kenn Oldfield
For three
weeks up until the night before this gala, Louise Gold and
Louise Gold also reprised her The Boys From Syracuse
performance of Sing For Your Supper in A Lost Musicals Occasion, but without Jenny
Galloway and Gillian Bevan
Comedy
Tonight is one of
those wonderful numbers often incorporated into compilation shows, for example Louise
Gold has been involved in singing it in such productions as Side By Side By Sondheim and Curtain Up. She may also have performed it (with Kenn
Oldfield’s choreography) in a gala called Comedy
Tonight.
Judi Dench and Gay Soper also appears on the JAY/TER
recording of Cabaret
John
Berlyne had previously appeared
in New Girl In Town
Maria
Aitken, Gillian Bevan, Christopher
Biggins and Steven Edis, had previously appeared in Kids At Heart, and Jessica Martin may have
appeared in it.
Liz
Robertson and Steven Edis
had previously contributed to A Time To
Start Living.
Fiona Dunn had previously appeared in Of Thee I Sing, and, Final Chic Cabaret 2003.
Gay Soper had previously appeared in Ratepayers' Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado
Gay Soper and Christopher Biggins had previously
appeared in The Soap Opera
Peter
Forbes had previously appeared in
Mamma Mia, as of course have Louise Gold and
Jenny Galloway
Louise Gold and Jessica Martin have appeared together
on several occasions: Something For The
Boys, and, A Lost Musicals Occasion.
They also both worked on Spitting Image and
feature on the album Spit In Your Ear. They
have also appeared on the radio on: Let’s Do The Show Right Here.
Louise Gold, Jessica Martin, and, Abigail Langham
had previously appeared in One Touch Of
Venus (2000 Production)
Louise Gold, Jessica Martin, and,
Liz
Robertson has previously appeared
in: The Royal Variety
Performance (1982), Chicago & Company,
Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It. Side By Side By Sondheim, and the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala. Her recording credits include
Cole Porter - Night And Day, The Great
Musicals – Laughter And Tears and Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It. She may
have appeared in Will-Aid.
Kenn
Oldfield did some of the
choreography for Will-Aid.
Liza Sadovy appeared in the film Billy The Kid And The
Green Baize Vampire.
Issy Van
Randwyck has previously appeared
in: Love Life, By Jupiter,
and Hot ‘n’ Spicey 2, her recording credits
include Encore The Very Best
From The Musicals , Cole Porter -
Night And day, The Great Musicals –
Laughter And Tears and The History
Of The Musical. Her appearance in this gala is only about her second since
the memorable occasion when Louise Gold stood in for her at The
Hampstead And Highgate Arts Festival (see Louise Gold Sings Some Nice Songs)
Kenn
Oldfield and Louise Gold
had appeared together on stage 26 years previously in Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Touring Production).
Gillian
Bevan and Louise Gold may
also have danced Kenn Oldfield’s choreography in Comedy Tonight
Janie Dee, and, Judi Dench may also have gone on to
appear in Comedy Tonight
Louise Gold and Jenny Galloway have previously
appeared together in Godspell
Denis
Quilley and Louise Gold
have previously appeared in Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Giles
Taylor had previously appeared in
Into Exile
Issy Van
Randwyck, Jessica Martin,
and, Gay Soper went on to appear at Dress Circle Grand Reopening
Peter Duncan is of course best known for having presented Blue Peter, during his time on the programme, in
1983, Louise Gold once made an
appearance as a guest in an item about the film The
Dark Crystal.
It is perhaps
worth noting that once, when Peter Duncan left Blue Peter
(in the autumn of 1986), Clive Rowe auditioned for, but did not get, his
job. He lost out to one of the best broadcasters to have graced British
television and radio in the 1980’s and 90’s.
Janie Dee’s recording credits include Defiant Dames, which Clive Rowe was also
involved with.
Alicia
Davies, Fiona
Dunn and Louise Gold have gone on to appear together in The Gondoliers and The Water Babies
Alicia
Davies and Louise Gold
went on to appear in another theatre (
Janie Dee, Joanna Riding, and, Peter Forbes
had previously appeared on television on A
Week In The West End.
Christopher
Biggins’s recording credits
include Simply Musicals.
Christopher
Biggins, Bernard Cribbins,
Janie Dee, and, Joanna Riding
may have previously appeared in Dear Ralph, which
was also directed by Ian Talbot.
Gary
Wilmot and Christopher
Biggins went on to appear (alongside Louise Gold) in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Gary Wilmot’s recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Liz Robertson, and, Louise Gold went on
to appear in a gala dedicated to Denis
Quilley, Happily Ever After.
Janie Dee,
Judi Dench, Liz Robertson, Gay Soper,
and, Christopher Biggins went on to
appear in Side By Side By Sondheim 30th
Anniversary Gala.
Janie Dee,
and, Jessica Martin went on to
appear in A Love Letter To Dan.
Denis Quilley’s recording credits include The Great
Musicals - Wonderful Tales.
Gillian Bevan, Clive Rowe, and, Gay Soper’s recording credits include Centre Stage Showtime!.
Louise Gold has gone on to sing a very different version of Comedy Tonight in a late
night FUNdraising special featuring The
Company Of Mary Poppins.
Liz Robertson, Ian Talbot, and, Issy Van Randwyck went on to take part
in Shopping With The Stars 2008.
Gillian Bevan, and, Gay Soper’s
recording credits include Magic Of The
Musicals.
Louise Gold, Jessica Martin, and, Liz Robertson went on to take part in A Celebration Of The Life And Work Of Dick
Vosburgh.
Jenna Russell, Christopher Biggins, and, Gillian Bevan may have previously taken part in Thing A Thon.
Liz
Robertson, Gay Soper, Ian Talbot, and,
Critics Comments
“ ...not least ‘Sing
for your supper’ from The Boys From Syracuse, beautifully trilled again by as
good as a girls group gets - Louise Gold, Jenny Galloway and Gillian Bevan”
Mike Walters, MUSICAL STAGES, Issue 35/36, Winter 2002/2003
Links about The Regents Park Open Air Theatre 70th
Anniversary Gala
The
Unofficial Chronology Of Dame Judi Dench’s Career’s review of the evening: http://www.djdchronology2.com/openairtheatregala2002.htm
Regents Park Theatre History (details of a fairly comprehensive book by David Corville): http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1840027347?ie=UTF8&tag=thestageonlin-21&link_code=em1&camp=2502&creative=11130&creativeASIN=1840027347&adid=915cf43c-6d60-4437-9888-3880a64a05ba
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