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DECEMBER 2021 • 31together when it
happened in 1979, it
was a great shock.
I was very depressed
about it for years and it was
really because of Linzi that I got
through it. She was a wonderful help
to me and my two young children,
who were eight and ten at the time.
We weren’t together at the time but
being the wonderful woman that she
is, she came back to me....LINZI AND I WENT ON TO HAVE
TWO KIDS TOGETHER, bringing my
total to six because I had two
children out of wedlock in my
misspent youth. We’re all friendly
and they all come and stay with us.I’ve also got 13 lovely
grandchildren. Being an
only child, I felt lonely and
always wanted a brother or
sister. I’ve certainly made up for
it since and I did get a brother much
later when my father remarried....PLAYING THE RUM TUM
TUGGER IN CATS WAS GREAT FUN.
It was brilliantly staged and of course
it reunited me with Elaine again.
Unfortunately Judi Dench, who was
due to sing “Memory” in the show,
snapped her Achilles tendon and
couldn’t do it so they brought Elaine
in. As for the dancing, I was never up
to the standard of the trained
dancers but I managed to get by andMembers of the original cast
of the Cats musical
backstage at the New
London Theatre in 1981