Gay Soper

She sang the role of Madam Thenardier on the complete symphonic recording of Les Misérables and she narrated and voiced all the characters in the children's television show The Flumps.

She was later cast in the original 1971 London production of the musical Godspell, alongside Jeremy Irons, David Essex, Julie Covington and Marti Webb.

In 2011 at the Brighton Festival she played Rattigan’s mother Vera in The Art of Concealment, a new play; and toured the UK as Norah in Star Quality by Noël Coward, as Matron in Doctor In The House, as Verity Carr in Morse, in House of Ghosts, and as Helena in Maurice’s Jubilee by Nichola MacAuliffe.

At the Birmingham Rep she was the Storyteller in Stiles and Drew’s new musical version of Peter Pan,[11] and Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at Frankfurt; played in Cole in Hong Kong, Betjemania and Narnia in New York, and Ruth in Blithe Spirit in Stockholm, and Cherry May Waterton in Coward's Nude with Violin at the Royal Exchange Manchester for Marianne Elliott.

[15] Her solo album, Flying Fish and Fallen Angels, was released on the Dress Circle label and featured special guest Barry James.