110 In The Shade
Louise
Gold starred as Lizzie Curry at The Fortune Theatre on 4, 11, 18 and 25 July
1999
110
In The Shade is a musical version of The Rainmaker.
The leading lady herself decribed it thus
“It’s
more of a play with songs, which work wonderfully in the context of the show”
Louise Gold to Robin Stringer, EVENING
STANDARD (
Cast
Fyle - Mark
McKerracher
Toby - John Langley
H. C. Curry - Christopher
Benjamin
Noah Curry - Neil McCaul
Jim Curry - Michael Matus
Lizzie Curry - Louise Gold
Bill Starbuck -
Snookie Updegraff - Suzy Bloom
Mrs Jessen - Jennifer Meldrum
Gil Demby - Paul Morrisey
Georgie - Neil Dutton
Olive - Arlene Coyle
Hannah - Hazel Ross
Belinda - Ann Adlem
Production Team
Music - Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics - Tom Jones (not The Tom Jones)
Book - N. Richard Nash
Based on a play "The
Rainmaker" by N. Richard Nash
Original Production – The Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway, 1963, with Inge Swenson as Lizzie Curry
Musical Director - Gareth Valentine
Assistant Musical Director -
Director - Ian Marshall-Fisher
For a full Review/Account of the show, please click
here.
110
In The Shade marked Louise Gold's return to The Lost Musicals,
after a year's absence in 1998, due to filming Topsy Turvy.
It
also saw her returning to The Fortune Theatre, where she had appeared in
Nunsense,
some 12 years previously. She returned to The
Fortune again some seven years later (with her hair nicely tousled) in a
gala Happily Ever After, and two years
after that in Flaunt It 2008.
It
is perhaps worth noting that 110 In The Shade’s original Broadway
production took place at The Broadhurst theatre,
the same theatre that Godspell
had it’s Broadway premier, after an Off-Broadway
premier at The Cherry Lane Theatre, where Nunsense
had one of it’s first major productions.
It
is perhaps worth noting that The Fortune Theatre had (or possibly has) public
right of way running through the auditorium and across the stage.
Louise
Gold, and, Michael Matus, went on to appear
together in Candide In Concert.
Louise
Gold and Neil McCaul had previously appeared together in: The Pirates Of
Penzance film, Billy The Kid And The
Green Baize Vampire , Angry Housewives, and The Lost Musicals
productions of Red Hot & Blue and Panama Hattie. They went on to take part in A Celebration Of The Life
And Work Of Dick Vosburgh.
Neil
McCaul
had previously appeared on The
Royal Variety Performance (1982), he went on to
appear on television on A Week In The West
End.
Louise
Gold and Christopher
Benjamin had previously appeared together in a BBC Radio 3 production of Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Mark
McKerracher who made
his Lost Musicals debut went on to appear in Du Barry Was A Lady
(2001 Production) where he also had Louise Gold as his leading lady.
Gareth Valentine’s recording credits include conducting
on The Best Of The
Musicals.
Note,
although The Musical Director for this production was Gareth Valentine,
who played the piano on stage for the show. During some of the rehearsals he
was unavailable, so
Critics Comments
“Louise Gold stood out as
Lizzie, as did
“Louise Gold also shines in the role of
Lizzie, revealing her emotional torment in Old Maid, and an overwhelming joy in
Is It Really Me?” Lisa Martland, THE STAGE, 22
July 1999, page 14
“All
the parts were well cast, especially that of Louise Gold doing some of her best
work in the lead” Ken Sephton, WORDS AND
MUSIC, Issue 34 September 1999
Links about 110 In The Shade
The Lost
Musicals Charitable TrustTM: http://www.lostmusicals.org/ -. The site includes photographs
from a number of past productions, including one of Suzy Bloom and
Reed Tickets’s page
about the history of various productions of this musical: http://www.reedstickets.net/110-degrees-in-the-shade.html
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