I began my career , straight from LAMDA (drama school), on the stage at the Theatre Royal Nottingham in 1965. I was in the Chorus, and understudying Jean Scott, who was playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, the original production that had come from Drury Lane in London. My mother had come up from Surrey on the train to settle me into the YWCA, where I lived for the six months the show played in Nottingham.
I clearly remember that the Nottingham audience was so generous towards me and they applauded my first moment on stage which was very encouraging! It was an unforgettable, magical way to begin a career and it will be haunting and rather thrilling to step foot on that stage for the first time since that distant time.
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