London cast
Cast for the London Hot August Fringe production
(Bios are as of August 2009)

The London Hot August Fringe production featured left to right) Janine Johnson, Steven Sparling, Heather Weir, Wesley Hughes, Robbie Bonar, Richard Link and Holly Aisbitt.
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...trained at Mountview, and Trinity College of Music, and was a winner of the 2005 Ian Fleming Musical Theatre Award. She recently appeared as ‘Dippy the Sheep’ in You Beautiful Ewe at the Roundhouse Studio. Earlier this year Holly played Jack’s mother in Into the Woods Upstairs at the Gatehouse, performed a set in Cabaret Confidential at the Leicester Square Theatre, sung at the ROH, the proms, in a BBC masterclass and has provided vocals on a number of short film soundtracks.
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...moved to London in 1988 and trained at the London College of Music and The London School of Musical Theatre. He has extensive performing credits and currently performs in an Art Deco Jazz Age dance band called Champagne Charlie and the Bubbly Boys. He also appears in, and hosts many cabarets in London in such spaces as The Basement Theatre Leicester Square, Sopranos, The Cellar Door and The South Bank Centre Festival Hall.
www.champagnecharliemusic.co.uk
Robbie is outraged that Richard Link dared to ask him to do homosexual things in public, here at the RVT. Oooooo dirty gayers, there’s no need! |
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...is originally from Llanelli, South Wales and now lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Singing credits include BBC’s Music Under the Stars with Michael Ball and Bryn Terfel and for Black Mountain Records. Wesley has toured the USA and Asia and can be heard on various EMI, Decca and Universal albums as a backing vocalist. Theatre credits include Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (Gordon Craig Theatre), Bartholomew in Jesus Christ Superstar (Buxton Opera House) and The Beast/Prince in Beauty and the Beast (All over the place).
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...has just finished an MA in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting (GSA) where her roles included Hortense in The Boy Friend, and Bobby in City of Angels.
Janine´s voice can be heard in such adverts as Winnie the Pooh’s Musical Railroad, Baby Sophie and the voice of the doll Hello Kitty. She also works regularly in the music industry as a backing vocalist for artists such as Boney M.
Janine recently recorded her first Album; Strength, Wisdom and Growth which she will be releasing this year. |
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...studied violin, bass and composition under Mike Thomas of the Brodsky Quartet and Eddie Parker and Veryan Weston.
Since working with critically-acclaimed, gold-selling lounge band Cousteau he has worked in the UK and the United States as a film music composer and live sound engineer. |
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...spent a decade working across Canada with companies such as Stage West Calgary, Stage West Edmonton, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Edmonton Opera, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the CBC before relocating to London in 2002.
UK credits include two tours of Scrooge (Bill Kenwright Productions), Dr Dolittle (Bill Kenwright Productions) and tours of The Happy Prince (Image Musical Theatre) and Drivetime (Stopwatch). He appeared in the UK premiere of Bicycle (Camden People’s Theatre) and play readings of new work at Soho Theatre and Bridewell Theatre. Steven co-founded the London theatre company Rich Rogue Arts with Richard and Heather. |
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... is a singer, actor and musical director. Credits include A Swell Party as Ethel Merman (Jermyn Street Theatre & St. Augustine’s Studio, Edinburgh Festival), Karen in Fax of Life (Greenwich Theatre) and The Snow Queen (Manchester Opera House).
Musical direction credits include And the World Goes ’Round (Landor Theatre), ThreePenny Opera (Welwyn Garden City Theatre), and the world première of Falls (Greenwich Theatre).
Heather teaches MA classes at Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London and Drama Centre London, and is a sung voice teacher at the Actors Centre London. Heather co-founded the London theatre company Rich Rogue Arts with Richard and Stephen, and is currently working on a jazz album with Richard. |
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