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Gay Soper is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance in the musical ''Godspell'' in 1971, as well as Mme. Thenardier on the Complete Symphonic Recording of ''Les Misérables''. 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 Bernard J. Taylor's musical version of ''Pride and Prejudice''. Gay was educated at a convent in Surrey, St Anne’s College, and trained as an actress at LAMDA. Her career has spanned almost fifty years, beginning with playing Eliza Doolittle in ''My Fair Lady'' on the original national tour in 1965. In 1974 she was an original cast member of the musical ''Billy'' based on the story of Billy Liar with Michael Crawford and Elaine Paige. Her film roles include the British sex comedies ''Love Is a Splendid Illusion'' (1970) and ''The Ups and Downs of a Handyman'' (1975), opposite her then-husband Barry Stokes. Her theatre work includes: ''Good'' (RSC); ''Mother Courage'' (National Theatre); and ''Sunday in the Park with George'', ''Jorrocks'', ''The Canterbury Tales'', ''Godspell'', ''Billy'', ''Side by Side by Sondheim'', ''The Mitford Girls'', ''Les Misérables'', ''Which Witch'', and ''Salad Days'' (West End). She was in the original cast of the 1970s musical ''Betjemania'' based on the poems of John Betjeman. In 2010, she appeared with Opera della Luna as Little Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''H.M.S. Pinafore''. 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. She was Mrs Pearce in ''My Fair Lady'' at Kilworth House Theatre, 2013; Gay later played Mrs Higgins in the musical on a tour of Denmark. At the Birmingham Rep she was the Storyteller in Stiles and Drew’s new musical version of ''Peter Pan'', 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. She has made many TV appearances - perhaps most famously in series 3 and 4 of ''Romany Jones'' - and appears in the 2004 film version of ''A Christmas Carol'' with Kelsey Grammer. She can be heard on the London cast recordings of ''Les Misérables'' and ''Sunday in the Park with George''. Her solo album, ''Flying Fish and Fallen Angels'', was released on the Dress Circle label. In 2008, Gay performed the lead role of Sister Wendy Beckett in Postcards from God - The Sister Wendy Musical at Hackney Empire Studio and reprised the role for the concept cast recording in 2010. She is currently appearing in the ''West End'' in ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' at the ''Gielgud Theatre''. ==Selected filmography== * ''Love Is a Splendid Illusion'' (1970) * ''The Ups and Downs of a Handyman'' (1975) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gay Soper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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