27th September was an anniversary celebration at St Paul’s Covent Garden for actor Richard Syms, who was ordained fifty years ago, and shares his time between acting and vicar-ing. I worked with him on his first acting job at the old Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury: Sandy Wilson’s The Clapham Wonder, directed by David Carson.
For the anniversary occasion I accompanied Gay Soper singing John Gould’s setting of Betjeman’s In Westminster Abbey and Margaret Houston singing I’m Still Here from Follies. Both renditions were excellent, and both women were a pleasure and an honour to work with.
Colin Sell 