Where Are They Now ...?

It's an intriguing question - whatever happened to - ?

Looking through our archive, we look at faces and read names that have somehow slipped away into the mists of time. Visitors to the site may, of course, know exactly what happened to our featured personalities, and help plug some of the gaps in their biographies. So, is there the possibility that we might find out what happened to …

WENDY BOWMAN In 1966, Wendy Bowman was playing Eliza Doolittle in the H. M. Tennant touring production of My Fair Lady, opposite Tony Britton's Henry Higgins. She began life in Sunderland, playing in pantomime there, and in 1960 enrolled at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She understudied Paula Hendrix in The Boys from Syracuse at Drury Lane in 1963, and replaced her for one performance. Her Eliza Doolittle was thoroughly credible, but by 1977 she was understudying again, in the musical Something's Afoot. Since when …?	One Eliza Doolittle among many - Wendy Bowman
SONIA REES I first encountered Sonia Rees in the early 1960s when she was wheeled on stage at the Palace Theatre as Maria in The Sound of Music. After playing in pantomimes for Jack Hylton, she made her first appearance in a West End musical as the juvenile lead in Oh! My Papa! at the Garrick Theatre in 1957, and was featured in the Crazy Gang's revue of 1959, Clown Jewels. She was in the original British company of The Sound of Music, and subsequently took the leading role when Jean Bayless left the company. Since when …?	Sonia Rees at the time of The Sound of Music
ISOBEL STUART Miss Stuart made her West End debut as Jeanne de Vionnet in Ambassador at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1971. She had played in musicals before - in The Fantasticks at Salisbury, in Meet Me by Moonlight at Birmingham, and toured as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, but Ambassador thrust her momentarily into the spotlight. She had two numbers, 'Love Finds The Lonely' and 'Mama'. Since when …?	The costume may have been prettier than the songs - Isobel Stuart in Ambassador
TERESE STEVENS She might have become a great performer, for there was no doubt that Stevens, a girl from Peckham, had some outstanding qualities. One of the youngest singers ever to appear at the Palladium, she was only in her mid-teens when she recorded a song called 'Who Are We?'. She sang on television; Michael Parkinson featured her on his chat show. In 1967 - billed as Terri Stevens - she played Barbara Harris in The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 (a musical about the Rector of Stiffkey) and went to America to play Gigi in the touring production. But it was difficult to follow up the early success. In 1974 she played the lead, Marie Kelly, in the music-hall musical Jack the Ripper, but she didn't attract personal notices. By 1982 - now billed as Therese Stevens - she was reduced to a couple of lines in Windy City. Since when …?	Thinking of making the 'Step Across the River' - Terese Stevens in Jack the Ripper