Gay Soper

Gay Soper is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance in the musical Godspell in 1971, as well as Mme. Thenardier on the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Misérables. She also performed all the voices for The Flumps, a famous children's TV series in Britain, and created the role of Mrs Bennett in Bernard J. Taylor's musical version of Pride and Prejudice.

Gay was educated at a convent in Surrey, St Anne’s College, and trained as an actress at LAMDA.

Soper was an alternate Eliza Doolittle on the original UK tour of My Fair Lady in 1965. She was later cast in the original London production of the musical Godspell, alongside Jeremy Irons, David Essex, Julie Covington and Marti Webb. The production opened at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm and later transferred to Wyndhams Theatre.

In 1974 she appeared as one of the two girlfriends in the original London production of the musical Billy, with lyrics by Don Black and music by John Barry, based on the story of Billy Liar. Billy was played by Michael Crawford and the other girlfriend by Elaine Paige.

Her other theatre work includes Good (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mother Courage (National Theatre); and Sunday in the Park with George, Jorrocks, The Canterbury Tales, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Mitford Girls, Les Misérables, Which Witch, and Salad Days (West End). She was in the original cast of the 1970s musical Betjemania based on the poems of John Betjeman. In 2010, she appeared with Opera della Luna as Little Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

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