Julia And Company
- A Julia McKenzie Special
Louise
Gold featured as one of four “newcomers” to television, Thames Television,
recorded June 1986, broadcast Tuesday 9 September 1986
STOP PRESS: Louise Gold has
two nominations in the Broadway World West End Awards: http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/vote2015region.cfm
In particular she has been
nominated for Understudy of The Year Female: http://www.broadwayworld.com/westend/liveupdate2015region.cfm?btype=4338®ion=UK%20/%20West%20End#sthash.2TIlL8gx.dpbs (for her performance as Momma
Rose – she understudied Imelda Staunton)
Cast
Starring - Julia McKenzie
And Featuring - George Hearn
With Special Guest - Millicent Martin
Introduced by - Anton Rogers
And Introducing Four “Newcomers” to television - Robert Meadmore, Louise Gold, Erick Ray Evans, and, Sophie Winter
Production Team
Directed
by - Peter Frazer-Jones
For
a review/account of the programme please click here.
It
was rather inaccurate to describe Louise Gold as “New to television”,
besides having already established herself as one of the great ladies of
British television puppetry with The Muppet
Show and Spitting Image; she had
also already appeared on television in: BlackAdder, For 4
Tonight, Rachel And The Roarettes, and been
a regular member of the cast of Laugh...? I Nearly Paid My
Licence Fee.
According
to his resume for The Best Little Whorehouse In
Julia
McKenzie and Millicent
Martin went on to appear together in A
Time To Start Living.
Julia
McKenzie and Louise
Gold went on to appear together on the radio on Let’s Do The
Show Right Here.
Julia
McKenzie went on to
guest on the radio on Ned Sherrin’s
Review Of Revue, her recording credits include The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century.
Julia
McKenzie, Millicent
Martin, Robert Meadmore, and, Louise
Gold went on to appear in the Side By Side By
Sondheim 25th Anniversary Gala, and, Side By Side By Sondheim 30th Anniversary
Gala.
Anton
Rogers and Millicent
Martin had previously appeared in The Royal Variety Performance
(1982).
Anton
Rogers, and, Robert Meadmore may have gone to appear on stage in Will Aid,
Anton Rogers went on to appear on television in A Week In The West
End. He may have taken part in Thing A Thon.
Millicent
Martin went on to
appear in Comedy Tonight.
Robert Meadmore and Louise Gold had previously appeared together in leading role (The Mikado and Katisha) in The Metropolitan Mikado, and as a result they also appeared in A Concert Of Highlights From The Ratepayers Iolanthe & Metropolitan Mikado
. They went on to appear together in The Soap Opera, Side By Side By Sondheim, Hubert Gregg’s Memorial Service, and, Shopping With The Stars 2008.Robert
Meadmore
went on to appear in Kids At
Heart, and, A Love Letter To Dan;
his recording credits include Simply Musicals,
The Great Musicals – Dashing
Heroes, Blushing Maidens, and, 100 Hits
Musicals.
Thames
Television also
produced The Bill, and broadcast The Ghost Of Faffner Hall.
Interestingly
both the girls among the “newcomers” had trained (at one time or
another) at The Arts Educational School, when it was based in the
Barbican area.
Julia McKenzie
and Millicent Martin, in their costumes as The Dolly Sisters,
appeared on the cover of that week’s (6 to 12 September 1986) TV Times.
The Dolly Sisters
were also represented in the musical Ziegfeld.
Louise Gold went on to pay tribute to Dick Vosburgh
in A Celebration Of The
Life And Work Of Dick Vosburgh, where she
got to sing Film Cliche!
Critics Comments
Links about Julia And Company
The
Sophie Winter Memorial Trust
(in their biography of Sophie, they specifically mention her work on Julia
& Company): http://www.sophiewintertrust.org/biog.htm
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