Let ‘Em Eat Cake
Louise Gold
featured, as Miss Trixie Flynn, at The Golders Green Hipperdrome, Broadcast on
BBC Radio 3 on 21 March 1994
Cast
Readers, Henchmen, Wives, Sales Girls, Blue Shirts, The
Miss Trixie Flynn - Louise Gold
General Adam Snookfield (Snooky) - Christopher Benjamin
A Flunky, and, An Army Lieutenant - Matt Zimmerman
Louis Lippman - Frank Lazarus
Francis X. Gilhooley - Vincent Marzello
Matthew Arnold Fulton - Jonathan Kydd
Mrs Mary Wintergreen nee Turner - Kim Criswell
John P. Wintergreen - Denis Quilley
Chief Justice Of Supreme Court - Bruce Ogston
Alexander Throttlebottem - Joss Ackland
Kreuger - Henry Goodman
John P Tweedledee - Nick Holder
Narrator - Robert Cushman
with: David Holt, The BBC Theatre Chorus
Production Team
Music - George Gershwin
Lyrics - Ira Gershwin
Book - George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind
Original Production - 21 October 1933, Imperial Theatre, with Grace Worth as Miss Trixie Flynn
Orchestra - The BBC Concert Orchestra
Musical Director - Barry Wordsworth
Orchestra Leader - Martin Loveday
Chorus Master - Roderick Dunk
Chorus Manager - Stephen Ashley-King
Technical Presentation - James Hamilton
Producer - Chris Neil and Tim Thorn
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Let ‘Em Eat Cake was quite literally the successor to a Gershwin
musical, also by George S Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, originally
produced two years earlier, Of Thee I Sing. It
follows the story of what happened to the central characters in Of Thee I Sing four years on from the end of that
show.
Louise Gold and Henry Goodman went on to appear in a Lost
Musicals production of Let ‘Em Eat Cake’s predecessor, Of Thee I Sing, only this time Henry Goodman
played John P. Wintergreen. In addition they had previously appeared together
in the politically oriented Sondheim musical Assassins,
they went on to appear in the Sondheim musical Follies.
Louise Gold and Christopher Benjamin went on to appear
together in 110 In The Shade .
Louise Gold and Frank Lazarus appeared together in New Girl In Town, they went on to take part in A Celebration
Of The Life And Work Of Dick Vosburgh.
Louise Gold and Matt Zimmerman have appeared together
in Anything Goes (stage show) and on: Anything Goes (recording) - Website Recommended Album, and, Cole Porter - Night And Day.
Louise Gold and Bruce Ogston are on the albums Cabaret.and with Matt Zimmerman Anything Goes (recording) - Website Recommended Album.
Matt Zimmerman previously appeared in The Royal Variety Performance
(1982)
Matt Zimmerman and Bruce Ogston’s recording credits
include On The Town.
Kim Criswell and Matt Zimmerman’s recording credits
include The History Of The Musical
and The Greatest Musicals of
the 20th Century
Kim Criswell’s recording credits include Encore! The Very Best From
The Musicals, Simply Musicals, The
Great Musicals – Laughter And Tears, Magic
Of The Musicals, The Best Of The
Musicals, 100 Hits Musicals, and, The Great Musicals - From Broadway to
Hollywood.
Louise Gold and Kim Criswell went on to appear
together in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
and on the album On The Town.
Joss
Ackland may have appeared in Kids At Heart.
Denis
Quilley went on to appear at the Regent’s Park 70th Anniversary
Gala, where his task was to introduce a trio of singers, including Louise
Gold who were there “to sing for their supper”.
The BBC
Concert Orchestra had previously
played for Sondheim At The Barbican.
The BBC
Concert Orchestra went on to play for a production of Du Barry Was A Lady (2001 Production)
starring Louise Gold, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
The Imperial
Theatre in New York was also the venue for the original production of the
Gershwin musical Oh Kay (which Louise Gold
starred in a concert staging of at Barbican Cinema 1) and the Kurt
Weill musical One Touch Of Venus, which Louise Gold starred
in concert stagings at Barbican Cinema 1 (see One Touch Of Venus (1992 Production))
and The Linbury Studio Theatre (see One
Touch Of Venus (2000 Production))
A little later
in the year (1994) Chris Neil went on to produce the BBC Radio quiz Let’s Do The Show Right Here (on
which Louise Gold was a Team Captain).
Louise Gold and David Holt have gone on to appear
together on the CD The Wartime Picnics.
Having appeared with Denis Quilley in this broadcast, Louise
Gold went on to appear in a gala given in Denis Quilley’s memory, Happily Ever After.
Henry Goodman has gone on to appear in A Love
Letter To Dan.
Kim Criswell, and Denis Quilley’s
recording credits include The Great Musicals -
Wonderful Tales.
Kim Criswell, and, Barry Wordsworth’s
recording credits include The Great Musicals
– Glamour And Majesty.
Bruce Ogston may have taken part in Thing A
Thon.
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