The New Theatre Barnstaple College theatre workshop.
December 1976 ASM Lighting ‘The House Of Bernarda Alba‘.
1977 ASM Lighting Exit the King, ASM Lighting & Sound, Oh what a lovely war ASM Sound, Star Beam (College production) ASM Sound and Lighting.
1977 Easter Northcott Theatre Trainee work experience. Sleuth, Under milk wood.
1977 Star beam from the New Theatre Barnstaple LD/ASM Lighting sound.
The Victoria Palace London 1977-1983
September 1977 Las Vegas Follies Student
October 1977 Don’t Bother to Dress Student
December 1977 Basil Brush Showman Board/colour change operator
January 1978 Cinderella with Tony Blackburn Stage LX Showman
February 1978 Annie Second Dayman LX
April 1978 Annie First Dayman LX
December 1981 Mother Goose John Inmann
February 1982 Little Foxes Elizabeth Tailor.
July 1982 Windy City Denis Waterman
February 1983 Call Me Madam Noel Gordon
The Queens Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue 1983-1989
May 1983 Another Country
October 1983 Hayfever Penelope Keith
April 1984 Number One
August 1984 Promoted Deputy Chief LX. Forty Years On
February 1985 The Cain Mutiny Court Marshal
August 1985 The Seagull
November 1985 Interpreters
May 1986 Wonderful Town
March 1987 The Resistible Rise of Aruro Ui
September 1987-Feb 1989 Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Promoted to Chief LX)
Feb 1989 Single Spies
October 1989 – September 1990 Shadow Lands
The Royalty Theatre on the Kingsway 1989-1993
Paul McKenna
The International Dance Teachers association
The National Body builders
Iraq Ballet
Israel Ballet
French Ballet
Northern Ballet
Ballet Rambert
Maggie May
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Hair
English Shakespeare Company Macbeth, The Tempest
Robert Halpen
Babes in Arms
The Lyric Theatre 1993-2003
1993 March 1995 Five Guys Named Moe
March 1995 Ain’t Misbehaving
October 1995 Hobson’s Choice
February 1996 Lee Evans
March 1996 Tap Dogs
August 1996 Ferry Across the Mersey
October 1996 By Jeeves
Early 1997 Refurbishment of Front of House
8th April 1997 Marlene
September – 8th November 1997 Maddie
November 1997 Cyrano de Bergerac
March 1998 Closer.
November 1998 An Ideal Husband
March 16th 1999 Animal Crackers
May 1999 Tango Passion
October 1999-3rd June 2000 Comic Potential
June 2000 A Busy Day
September 2000 Brief Encounter
November 2000 Long Days Journey into Night.
March 2001 Semi-Monde
August 2001 Barbara Cook sings Mostly Sondheim
September 2001 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
July 2002 The Constant Wife
The Constant wife was my very last show in the West End of London, in fact it was to be the very last show I was ever to do. Tony P had now transferred back to the Lyric as Chief LX. I would have my office and workshop in one of the upstairs rooms for a couple of years before moving to the Palladium once the Lyric was sold to Nimax Theatres.
When I started at the Victoria Palace we had been only two theatres of the VP and the London Palladium.
In 1983 the Stoll and Moss theatres had merged to form a closer relationship and then we were the four theatres on Shaftesbury avenue plus Her majesties, And the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Making eight theatres in total. When Robert Homes A’court Brought the group in 1986 he went on a buying spree and added The Garrick, Duchess, Cambridge and Royalty theatres. So for a while we were 12 theatres.
Later the Victoria Palace was sold. With the Purchase by the Really useful Group The Palace, New London, and Adelphi Theatres were added making a Total of 14 Theatres. Later Royalty was sold and then The Duchess and Garrick were also sold, Followed by the Apollo and Lyric. Then the Queens and Gielgud. So no longer would the four theatres remain together after all those years of flying the same flag. Lastly the Palace would be sold leaving only Her Majesties, London Palladium, Theatre Royal Drury lane, And the New London, and Adelphi. Making a total of Five theatres.
It should be noted that as in the rest of the book I have used the names of the the theatres that were contemporary at the time. It also should for accuracy be noted that the Really Useful Group actually had a half share/ownership of the Adelphi Theatre.
Working directly for head office as technical projects supervisor and then technical projects manager with office and workshop at.
Lyric Theatre 2003-2007
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