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Liz Robertson
Liz began her career as a singer-dancer in a dance group called The Go-Jos and she then became the lead singer and dancer of BBC2's The Young Generation. Her West End career began when she appeared in A Little Night Music (directed by Hal Prince at the Adelphi)and Side by Side by Sondheim (at The Mermaid and Wyndham's). She went on to star in the subsequent Toronto production with Georgia Brown at The Royal Alexandra Theatre. In 1977-8 she starred with Ben Cross in I Love My Wife directed by Gene Sack at the Prince of Wales, after which Cameron Mackintosh signed her to play Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady - she earned rave reviews and The Variety Club's 'Most Promising Actress' award. A season at Chichester followed, as Jessica Mitford in The Mitford Girls, and then she assembled a one-person show for the Duke of York's called Just Liz, which was later broadcast on television. Credits Include: Dance a Little Closer (Minskoff Theatre, Broadway); Song & Dance (Palace Theatre, Broadway), Kern Goes to Hollywood (Donmar & Broadway), Killing Jessica (Richmond & Savoy), Canaries Sometimes Sing (The Albery), A Touch of Danger (Nat'l), My Fair Lady (Birmingham & Manchester), Sherlock Holmes - The Musical (Exeter & the Cambridge), The King and I (U.S. Nat'l - Carbonell Best Actress Award, South Florida Enterainment Writers Association), The Sound of Music (Sadler's Wells & Tour). Mavis in Stepping Out (Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead and the Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Let's Do It (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre & Nat'l), The King and I (Covent Garden Festival), The Music Man (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park), Beethoven's Tenth (Chichester Festival Theatre), Love.co.uk (King's Head), Something Wonderful (Nat'l), and Peter Pan (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford). TV: The Good Life, Song by Song (Cole Porter and Richard Rogers), Words of Alan Jay Lerner, Give Us a Clue. In 1984 she recorded her first album, Somebody's Girl; she has appeared in four Royal Variety Performances and she also performed at The Kennedy Center Honours before President and Mrs Reagan.
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