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,
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 took part in Comic Relif 1986, his
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.
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, and to take part in A
Celebration Of The Life And Work Of Dick Vosburgh, and Shopping With The Stars 2009.
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,
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, and, Let’s
Go On With The Show – Hit Songs From The West End & Broadway.
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 2008.
Claire Moore’s recording credits include Magic
Of The Musicals, which Jonathan
Cohen also conducted on.
Simon Green went on to appear in Flaunt It 2008.
Sara Kestleman’s recording credits include The
Best Of The Musicals.
Cantabile,
Maxine Audley, Dilys Watling, Angela
Richards, Peter Straker, Jonathan Cohen, David Kernan,
Maria
Friedman, Robert Meadmore, Claire Moore, and, Jonathan Cohen’s recording credits include 100 Hits Musicals.
Maria Friedman, Simon Green, David Kernan, and, Claire Moore’s recording credits include The Great Musicals - From Broadway to
Hollywood.
Keith Baxter, Peter Greenwell, David Kernan, and, Liz Robertson’s radio credits include The Radio 2 Arts Programme
Chichester Festival 1994.
Louise Gold went on to appear in Lionel
Bart’s musical Oliver!
Liz Robertson, and, Ned Sherrin went on
to take part in CLIC’s 18th
Birthday Celebration.
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