Will-Aid:
A Celebration Of Shakespeare & “Hamlet Travestie”
Louise Gold was scheduled to feature as a singer in
Will-Aid, a fundraising gala (in the presence of HRH
Princess Margaret Countess Of Snowdon) in aid of Action Against Aids, at The
Sadlers Wells Theatre, on Sunday 12 April 1987
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. I don’t even know whether Ms Gold actually took
part in this!
Cast
A Celebration Of Shakespeare
Francesca
Annis
Linda
Baron
Alan
Bates
Keith Baxter
Jill
Bennet
Claire
Bloom
Cantabile
Tudor
Davies
Edward
Fox
Maria
Friedman
Stephen
Fry
Christopher
Fulford
Louise
Gold
Nicholas
Grace
Simon
Green
Dame
Wendy Hiller
Sally Ann
Howes
Barry
James
David
Kernan
Sara
Kestleman
Tommy
Korberg
Peter
Land
Hugh
Laurie
Dilys
Laye
Jenny
Logan
Stephen
Mann
Alfred
Marks
Gareth
Marks
Nichola
McAuliffe
Geraldine
McEwan
Mary
Millar
Claire
Moore
Paddie
O’Neal
Ian
Ogilvy
Jennifer
Penney
Michael
Pennington
Fionuala
Power
Angela
Richards
Liz
Robertson
Anton Rogers
Amanda
Root
Mark
Silver
Matz
Skoog
Peter
Straker
Naomi
Tate
William
Trevitt
Reg Tsboe
Dorothy
Tutin
Valerie
Walsh
Derek
Waring
James
Warwick
Dilys
Watling
Members of
the Cast of The Phantom of the Opera and the Front of House Staff
at Her Majesty’s Theatre: John Aron, Sally Ashfield, Steve
Barton, Peter Bishop, Anne Breckell, Justin Church, David
de Van, Sue Flannery, Paul Arden Griffith, Lynn Jezzard,
Dianah Jones, Patricia Merrin, Mary Millar, Jane Milligan,
Claire Moore, James Paterson, Patricia Richards, Adrian
Scott, Naomi Tate, Laura Coyne, Catherine Diggs, Andrea
Dixon, Mark Hogarth, Shaun Kerrison, Brian Palmer, Samantha
Phillip, and, Julian Redmond
Courtesy Notes:
Fionuala Power appears
courtesy of The Royal Ballet
Matz Skoog and
Trinidad Sevillano appear courtesy of The London Festival Ballet
William Trevitt
appears courtesy of The Royal Ballet School
William Tuckett (Choreographer) courtesy of The
Royal Ballet School
Hamlet Travestie
Hamlet - Patrick
Ryecart
Claudius - John
Moffatt
Gertrude - Gwen
Watford
Polonius - Freddie
Jones
Ophelia - Polly
James
Horatio - Robert
Meadmore
Laertes - Geoffrey
Burridge
Reynaldo - Anthony
Sher
Rosencrantz
-
Guildenstern
- James Villiers
Osrick - Nickolas
Grace
Marcellus - Margaret
Courtenay
Bernado - Maxine
Audley
Archbishop
of
Gravedigger
- Maurice Denham
Ghost - Royce
Mills
Herald - John
Wells
Player
King - Derek Griffiths
Player Queen
- Moyra Fraser
Player
Usurper - Derek Deane
First
Gentleman - Gary Fairhall
Gentlemen - Tim
Pearce and Gordon Mackintosh
First Lady -
Virginia Denham
Ladies - Petal
Nelson and Josephine Gordon
Musicians - Cantabile
Fortinbras –
(left blank in programme)
Production Team
Produced by - Show People
Designed by - Michael Annals and Peter Docherty
Lighting by - Leonard Tucker
Sound by - Paul Farrah Sound
Musical Direction by - Jonathan Cohen, Mike Haslem, and, Colin
Sell
Orchestra: Andy Bush, Paul Dias, Danny Emond, Wilf
Gibson, Peter Grahame, Malcolm Griffiths, Stuart Hall,
Sally Herbert, Tamsin Kaler, Martin Kelly, Terry
Montague-Mason, David Rose, Colin Sell, Millie Taylor,
Jo Tobia, David White, and, David Whitson
A Celebration Of Shakespeare
Directed by
- David Kernan
Staged by - Tudor
Davies
Writers
include - Trevor Nunn, Tom
Stoppard, Guy Woolfenden
Additional
Choreography - William Tuckett, Gillian Lynne
Hamlet Travestie
Written by -
John Poole Esq
Music
composed and arranged by - Peter Greenwell
Directed by
- Ned Sherrin
Musical
Direction - Jonathan Cohan and Mike Haslam
Movement - Kenn
Oldfield
Running Order (A
Celebration Of Shakespeare)
Prologue (written
by Tom Stoppard) - Alan Bates
Another Opening, Another Show
- Members of the cast of The Phantom Of The Opera and The Front
Of House Staff At Her Majesty’s Theatre
Romeo And Juliet /
Gee Officer Krupke
-
A Boy Like That / I Have A Love
- Claire Moore, and, Angela Richards
Pas de Deaux - Trinidad
Sevillano and Matz Skoog
America - Linda
Baron, Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, Dilys Laye, Jenny
Logan, Mary Millar, Liz Robertson, Petra Siniawski, Naomi
Tate, Valerie Walsh, and, Dilys Watling
Balcony Scene - Amanda
Root, and, Christopher Fulford
One Hand, One Heart
- Tommy Korberg
Four Sonnets - Dorothy
Tutin
Geraldine
McEwan
Claire
Bloom
Finola
Power and William Trevitt (choreographed by William Tuckett)
What A Piece Of Work Is A Man
- Peter Straker
Much
Hamlet (A Song)
- Cantabile
Two Sonnets - Dame
Wendy Hiller and Keith Baxter
A Comedy Of Errors (A Song
by Trevor Nunn and Guy Wolfenden) - Nickolas Grace
(Choreographed by Gillian Lynne)
A Sketch - Stephen
Fry and Hugh Laurie
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (A Duologue)
- Francesca Annis and Michael Pennington
Pas de Deux - Jennifer
Penney and Mark Silver
The Taming Of The Shrew / Kiss Me Kate
Where Is The Life That Late I Lead
- Tudor Davies and David Kernan
A Duologue - Sara
Kestleman and Ian Ogilvy
I Hate Men - Nichola
McAuliffe
So In Love - Sally
Ann Howes
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Paddie O’Neal, Alfred Marks, and, Gareth Marks
The Feste Song - Anton Rogers
On the subject of the material used in Shakespeare
A Celebration, it may be worth noting that besides using songs from the
two best known Shakespeare musicals, Kiss Me Kate
and West Side Story, this concoction also seems to have included a
number from Hair.
It is perhaps worth noting that while songwriter Lionel
Bart does not often seem to be known for acting on the stage, however, in
1953 he played an Ugly sister (Lavinia) in an agit prop version of Cinderella
at Unity Theatre (London), for which he and
Jack Grossman has written the songs. (the ‘book’ for that panto was by Una Brandon-Jones, John Gold, and, Roger
Woddis).
Incidentally, Maxine
Audley is also a former Unity Theatre player.
One may as well note that at one time or another in
her career Louise Gold has sung several of the Shakespeare-oriented
songs that other people sang her, such as: Another Opening Another Show
(on The Muppet Show, in Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It, and, on the album Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It (Recording)),
A Boy Like That (in Side
By Side By Sondheim), I Hate Men (in Kiss Me Kate), So In Love (in Kiss Me Kate), and, Brush Up Your Shakespeare
(in: Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It, and, Kiss Me Kate).
Lynda Baron and Louise Gold
went on to appear together in Broadway To
Brighton.
David Kernan and Ned Sherrin
also appeared in Broadway To Brighton.
It is possible that Sue Flannery may also have
gone on to appear in Broadway To Brighton,
that show had an actress named Susan Flannery in it.
Lynda Baron, Maria Friedman,
and, Louise Gold, went on to appear together in Kids At Heart which was directed by David
Kernan.
Alan Bates, Simon Green, Sally
Ann Howes, David Kernan, Robert Meadmore, Claire Moore,
Angela Richards, and, Ned Sherrin also went on to appear in Kids At Heart, which Sara Kestleman, Gareth
Marks and Nichola McAuliffe may also have appeared in, and Geradine
McEwan may possibly have appeared in too (but probably didn’t). Nickolas Grace may also have appeared
in it (there was an actor named Nicholas
Grace in it).
Keith Baxter, David Kernan, Claire
Moore, Andy Bush, and, Ned Sherrin may have gone on to appear
in Comedy Tonight, which Trevor Nunn
co-directed, and which Kenn Oldfield did some of the choreography.
Maria Friedman, Angela Richards, Liz
Robertson, Michael Haslem, and, Ned Sherrin went on to appear
in Chicago & Company, also directed
by David Kernan, which Mr Kernan dedicated to the memory of Jill
Bennet.
Maria Friedman and Louise Gold
went on to appear together in A Time To
Start Living, which was directed by David Kernan.
Simon Green, Sally Ann Howes, David
Kernan, Claire Moore, Liz Robertson, Andy Bush, Peter
Greenwell, and. Ned Sherrin also appeared in A Time To Start Living.
It is possible that Sue Flannery may also have
gone on to appear in A Time To Start
Living, that show had an actress named Susan Flannery in it.
Maria Friedman and Louise Gold
went on to appear together, along with David Kernan and Angela
Richards in Sondheim At The Barbican.
Maria Friedman and Louise Gold
went on to appear together in Merrily
We Roll Along (Stage Production) and on it’s associated recording Merrily We Roll Along (Recording).
Maria Friedman, Louise Gold, and Claire
Moore have sung together on Cabaret.
Louise Gold and Claire Moore
have sung together on Encore
The Very Best From The Musicals.
Maria Friedman, and, Simon Green’s
recording credits include The History
Of The Musical.
Stephen Fry’s recording credits
include Utterly Utterly Live
Comic Relief.
Louise Gold and Liz Robertson,
went on to appear together, along with Sally Ann Howes, David Kernan,
Peter Greenwell, and, Ned Sherrin in Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It, which was directed
by David Kernan.
Barry James, Liz Robertson,
and, Anton Rogers had previously appeared in The Royal Variety Performance
(1982).
Louise Gold and Liz Robertson
appear, along with David Kernan, and, Peter Greenwell on Noel/Cole: Let’s Do It (Recording).
Louise Gold and Liz Robertson
went on to appear, along with David Kernan, and, Robert Meadmore,
in the
Louise Gold and Liz Robertson
went on to appear together, along with David Kernan, Robert Meadmore,
Angela Richards, and, Ned Sherrin in the Side By Side By Sondheim 25th Anniversary
Gala, which was directed by David Kernan; and in which Angela
Richards also sang A Boy Like That.
Louise Gold and Dilys Laye
went on to appear together in Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes.
Liz Robertson, and, Jonathan Cohen’s
recording credits include Cole Porter -
Night And Day.
Liz Robertson went on to appear in the Regents Park 70th Anniversary Gala,
for which Kenn Oldfield did some of the choreography.
John Aron had previously been one of the ballroom
dancers in Labyrinth.
Robert Meadmore had previously appeared
in The Metropolitan Mikado and a concert
of highlights from the Ratepayers’
Iolanthe & Metropolitan Mikado, both of which were directed by Ned
Sherrin.
Paul Farrah Sound had previously done the
sound design for The Metropolitan Mikado.
Robert Meadmore went on to appear in The Soap Opera, and at Hubert Gregg’s Memorial Service.
Maxine Audley went on to appear in Nunsense (stage show).
Derek Griffiths had previously been a
presenter of BBC TV’s
Colin Sell went on to provide
musical accompaniment for some episodes of Let’s Do The Show Right Here.
Choreographer Kenn Oldfield had previously
appeared in Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Touring Production), he went on to
choreograph A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and The Boys From Syracuse.
Ned Sherrin went on to write material
for Ziegfeld (stage show), some of which found
it’s way onto the album Ziegfeld (recording).
He also went on to present Ned Sherrin’s Review
Of Revue.
Anton Rogers,
and, Robert Meadmore had previously appeared on television in Julia And Company
Gillian Lynne of course also famously
choreographed Cats, for which Trevor Nunn did some additional
lyrics.
Anton Rogers and Trevor Nunn
went on to appear on television on A Week
In The West End.
Claire Moore, and, Robert Meadmore’s
recording credits include Simply Musicals.
Alfred Marks may have gone on to
appear in Dear Ralph.
Gillian Lynne
had previously been one of the choreographers working on The Muppet Show. She went
on to do the choreography for the stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Nicola McAuliffe
went on to originate the role of Baroness Bomeburst in the stage production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
a role which Louise Gold took-over for the last year and a half of the
Louise Gold, and, Liz Robertson went on to appear in Happily Ever After.
Tudor Davies had previously appeared in Joseph And The
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Norwich Production).
Petra Siniawski went on to
choreograph a production of Poppy, in which Louise Gold appeared.
David Kernan, Simon Green, Liz Roberson, and, Michael
Haslem went on to appear in Side By Side By
Sondheim 30th Anniversary Gala, which Ned Sherrin was also involved with.
Dilys Laye went on to
appear in Alice In Wonderland, on which Louise Gold puppeteered.
Simon Green, Peter Land, Robert Meadmore, Angela
Richards, and, Peter Straker
have gone on to appear in A Love Letter To
Dan.
Claire Moore’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals - Wonderful
Tales.
Polly James’s recording
credits include The Great Musicals – Glamour
And Majesty.
Maria Friedman, and, Claire Moore’s recording credits
include Centre Stage Showtime!.
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 cabaret special was dedicated to him.
Nickolas Grace, Robert Meadmore, Liz Robertson, and, Louise
Gold went on to take part in Shopping
With The Stars.
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