Tours, Provinces and Fringe: Lady Jealous Traffick in The Busy Body, directed by Jessica Swale at Southwark Playhouse Cherry May Waterton in Nude With Violin by Noel Coward at Manchester Royal Exchange for Marianne Elliott Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady on a tour of Denmark Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady at Kilworth House open air Theatre, Leicestershire Betjemania by John Gould at the Shaw Theatre London and St Bartholemew's Park Avenue New York Tsarina Alexandra in Killing Rasputing (Bridewell), Norah in Star Quality by Noel Coward (uk tour), Anna in The Rink (Orange Tree Richmond), Ruth in Blithe Spirit (Stockholm), Sister Wendy in the Sister Wendy musical (Hackney Empire Studio), Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret the musical (Frankfurt English Theatre), The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry (Finborough), A Daughter's A Daughter by Agatha Christie (Theatre Royal Windsor), Mrs Steinburg and the Biker Boy with Miriam Karlin (Bush theatre), The Stripper (Hornchurch) by Richard O'Brien, and many more. In spring 2016 Funny Girl transferred to the Savoy Theatre playing there from April 9th till October 8th, with Gay in the role of Mrs Strakosh. Her previous roles there were a week's guest appearance as Berthe in Pippin 2011, and in 2005 George's Mother in Sunday in the Park With George (with Daniel Evans as George), winner of five Olivier Awards, which transferred to Wyndhams in 2006. Theatre: 2015 marked Gay's celebration of fifty years in showbiz, and playing in Funny Girl as Mrs Strakosh marked her third time playing the intimate Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark Street, SE1. Gay trained at LAMDA ( from 1963-65, alongside Brian Cox, Martin Shaw and Maureen Lipman), and made her professional debut at 19 playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, a major UK tour, with the legendary Zena Dare as Mrs Higgins. She also performed all the voices for The Flumps, a famous children's TV series in Britain. Thenardier on the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Misérables. Gay Soper is perhaps best known for her performance in the musical Godspell in 1971, as well as Mme.
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