LOUISE GOLD is playing Miss Andrews in Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London.    She played The Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at The London Palladium.   She was at Chichester Festival Theatre for the season in 2003 in The Gondoliers and The Water Babies, a new musical by Jason Carr and Gary Yershon and Noises Off at the Piccadilly Theatre.    She played outrageous best friend Tanya for a sold out two years in the hit West End musical Mamma Mia.       She also starred in the lavish production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the Royal Festival Hall.    Louise will be familiar from many other musicals, including Assassins, directed by Sam Mendes at the Donmar Warehouse; Adriana in The Boys from Syracuse, directed by Judi Dench at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes at the Prince Edward Theatre.

Louise is also a very experienced puppet performer.    She was one of the founder members of the Spitting Image team doing voices and puppeteering for the Queen and Nancy Reagan among others.    At 20 she joined Jim Henson and the Muppet team and worked with them on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock as well as the Muppet films The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, Muppet Treasure Island and Muppet Christmas Carol.

Louise is supported by JASON CARR at the piano.    Much in demand as a pianist, arranger and musical director, Jason has appeared with many stars, including the Americans Elisabeth Welch, Betty Garrett and Kitty Carlisle Hart, as well as Maria Friedman By Special Arrangement (Donmar and Whitehall and, more recently, at the New Ambassadors), Michael Ball in Alone Together (Divas at the Donmar) and in Noël and Gertie (Susan Hampshire and Edward Petherbridge at the Duke of York’s).    Winner of the 1988 Vivian Ellis Prize for young writers of musicals, Jason has composed musicals, including Born Again, starring Mandy Patinkin and Jose Ferrer, and many theatre scores.     Jason is a musical director for the ‘Lost Musicals’ seasons and, for the last three years, has been Associate Composer for The Chichester Festival Theatre where his new musicals The Water Babies and Six Pictures of Lee Miller received their first production.    Jason has written the music for ...And Then There Were None and a new orchestration for Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.

Director NIGEL PLASKITT worked for 13 years as one of the principal performers on Spitting Image.    In a full and varied career he was Animation Director assisting Steven Pimlott for Jim Henson’s Creature Shop on the stage musical Doctor Dolittle in London and on the UK Tour.      He directed Mark Eden & Kevin Moore in Take 2 at the Jermyn Street Theatre and he is currently playing the voice of Captain Black in Gerry Anderson's animated series of Captain Scarlet and Dan in Dan & Dusty for late night ITV.     He is consulting on Cameron Mackintosh's London production of Avenue Q and spent a week at the Manchester Opera House with Gorillaz Demon Days Live.

Louise and Jason perform 'The Sun Whose Rays' on the CD 'Defiant Dames' sold in aid of The Breast Cancer Campaign.