Side By Side By Sondheim 25th
Anniversary Gala
Louise appeared at The Laine-Dankworth Centre aka The
Stables Wavenden, on Sunday 15 October 2000, among the various artists taking
part in this Gala to mark the 25 years since the first production of Side By
Side By Sondheim.
Cast
Hosted by Ned Sherrin
Starring:
Julia
McKenzie
Millicent
Martin
& David
Kernan
plus Cleo
Laine
Introducing:
Kirsty
Hoiles
& Robert
Irons
With Guests:
Lorna
Dallas
Barbara
Ferris
Fenella
Fielding
Louise
Gold
Robert
Meadmore
Angela
Richards
&
Sally Ann Triplett
Production Team
Music and
Lyrics - Stephen Sondheim
Additional
Music & Lyrics: Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard
Rodgers and Jule Styne
Director - David
Kernan
Musical
Director -Stuart Pedlar
Second Piano
- David Laugharne
Miss
Fielding's Accompanist - Ian Macpherson
Stage
Management - Kevin Mullery and Andy McKee
Ms Laine's
Orchestrator - John Dankworth
Choreographer – Nick Winston
For a full account/review of the
performances in this incredible evening please click here.
The year before, in November 1999, Louise Gold,
Liz Robertson, Robert Meadmore and David Kernan had
appeared in a Revival of Side By Side By Sondheim at The
Chelmsford Civic Theatre. Naturally all the Sondheim numbers those four
sang tonight they had previously sung then.
Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin, David Kernan, Louise Gold,
Cleo Laine, Robert Meadmore, Liz
Robertson, Sally Ann Triplett, Ned Sherrin, and, John Dankworth went on to appear in Side
By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala.
Cleo Laine had previously
been a Guest Star on The Muppet
Show, where Louise
Gold was a notable puppeteer.
It might also be noted that: Louise Gold, Liz
Robertson and David Kernan had previously appeared in another Kernan
Revue, Noel/Cole: Let's Do It. and on its
album Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It
(Recording)
Kevin Mullary was the stage manager for
Noel/Cole: Let's Do It when it played the Oxford Playhouse
Louise Gold, David Kernan and Angela
Richards had previously appeared in Sondheim
At The Barbican back in 1993, where Angela Richards had sung The
Ladies Who Lunch and David Kernan had sung Anyone Can
Whistle.
Louise Gold and Robert Meadmore
had previously appeared together in a one night concert staging of a musical
called The Soap Opera; They went on to appear
together at Hubert Gregg’s Memorial
Service .
Louise Gold, Robert Meadmore,
and Sally Ann Triplett had previously appeared together in The
Metropolitan Mikado on which Ned Sherrin had also worked.
Louise Gold, Robert Meadmore,
and Ned Sherrin had appeared together in a concert of Highlights
from Ratepayers' Iolanthe
& Metropolitan Mikado
Ned Sherrin’s various credits include
writing material for the musical Ziegfeld and
the album Ziegfeld (recording)
David Kernan had previously directed Chicago & Company for which Stuart
Pedlar was a keyboard player
David Kernan had previously appeared
in and directed Comedy Tonight (where he is
billed as singing Comedy Tonight)
Millicent Martin and Ned Sherrin
may also have been involved with Comedy Tonight,
and “Millie” may also have sung The Boy From....
Louise Gold, Lorna Dallas, Fenella
Fielding and David Kernan had previously sung in a concert version
of SBSBS in the concert Broadway
To Brighton which Ned Sherrin also narrated, Stuart Pedlar
was also a pianist, and Louise Gold also sang If Momma Were
Married.
Ned Sherrin, Louise Gold, Fenella
Fielding, and, Julia McKenzie had previously appeared on the radio
in Ned Sherrin’s Review Of Revue.
Julia McKenzie and Lorna Dallas
had previously appeared as guests on the BBC Radio quiz Let’s Do The Show Right Here, for
which Louise Gold was a Team Captain.
Julia McKenzie, and, Lorna Dallas’s
recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Liz Robertson’s recording credits
include: Cole Porter - Night And Day
Cleo Laine along with John
Dankworth had previously appeared on The Royal Variety Performance
(1977)
Liz Robertson Millicent Martin, and Lorna Dallas had previously appeared
on: The Royal Variety
Performance (1982).
Liz Robertson, Lorna Dallas, Ned
Sherrin, Fenella Fielding, Cleo Laine, and Julia McKenzie
had previously appeared in A Time To Start
Living,
Liz Robertson had previously appeared in Chicago & Company, she went on to appear
in Regents Park 70th
Anniversary Gala
Lorna Dallas,
and, Robert Meadmore had previously appeared in Kids
At Heart.
Louise Gold and Liz Robertson
may have previously appeared together, along with David Kernan, Robert
Meadmore, Angela Richards, and, Ned Sherrin in Will-Aid, which was directed by David Kernan,
and in which Angela Richards may also have sung A Boy LikeThat.
Louise Gold went on to appear in the
Sondheim musical Follies
Robert Irons went on to appear at Dress Circle Grand Reopening
Louise Gold has been involved in
several performances of the song Beautiful Girls in: Sondheim At The Barbican , Side By Side By Sondheim, and, of
course, Follies .
Louise Gold has also
subsequently had the opportunity to sing some of the songs from this show that
she didn’t get to sing in this show, for example in Follies
she sang Could I Leave You and in Curtain
Up she sang Broadway Baby; and in The Company Of Mary Poppins she did
a very different version of Comedy Tonight.
Julia McKenzie, Millicent Martin,
Robert Meadmore, and, Louise Gold had previously appeared
together on television in Julia And Company.
Cleo Laine’s recording credits
include Jerome Kern The First 100
Years
Robert Meadmore, and, Sally Ann
Triplett’s recording credits include Simply
Musicals.
Lorna Dallas,
Louise Gold, Liz Robertson, and, Sally Ann Triplett all
went on to sing Sondheim in Happily Ever After.
Sally Ann
Triplett’s television credits include Rita Rudner.
Robert Meadmore, Angela Richards, and, Sally Ann Triplett went on to appear in
A Love Letter To Dan.
Kevin Mullary had previously
worked as a Stage Manager on Spitting Image
(for which Louise Gold was a leading
puppeteer).
Nick Winston went on to
appear in A Week In The West End.
Lorna Dallas’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Glamour
And Majesty, on which Ian MacPherson
was also involved.
Lorna Dallas, and, Robert Meadmore’s recording credits
include The Great Musicals –
Dashing Heroes, Blushing Maidens.
Lorna Dallas, David Kernan, and, Liz Robertson’s recording credits include The Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears.
After Ned
Sherrin’s death The Company Of
Mary Poppins’s late night FUNdraising special was dedicated to him.
Liz Robertson went on to get
Robert Meadmore, and, Louise Gold to take part in Shopping With The Stars.
Links about Side By
Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary Gala
A review, by Emma Shane, of seeing a production
of Follies (
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