- Gay Soper
Gay Soper is an English actress.
She is perhaps best known for her performance as Mme. Thenardier on the Complete Symphonic Recording of "
Les Miserables ". She also performed all the voices for "The Flumps ", a famous children's TV series in Britain, and created the role of Mrs. Bennett in the musical version of "Pride and Prejudice" byBernard J. Taylor. in 1975 she starred in the British sex comedy
The Ups and Downs of a Handyman , opposite her then-husband Barry Stokes.Her theatre work includes:
RSC : "Good"; National Theatre: "Mother Courage "; West End:Sunday in the Park with George , "Jorrocks", "The Canterbury Tales", "Godspell", "Billy", "Side by Side by Sondheim", "The Mitford Girls", "Les Miserables", "Which Witch", "Salad Days". She has made many TV appearances, and appears in the film version of "A Christmas Carol" withKelsey Grammer .She can be heard on the cast recordings of
Les Miserables andSunday in the Park with George . Her solo album, "Flying Fish and Fallen Angels", is released on the Dress Circle label.References
Simon Sheridan "Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema" (Reynolds & Hearn books) (3rd edition 2007)
Simon Sheridan "The A to Z of Classic Children's Television" (Reynolds & Hearn books, 2004, reprinted 2007) ISBN 1-903111-27-7.
External links
* [http://www.gaysoper.co.uk Gay Soper Official Website]
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