Paul Nicholas
After Just Good Friends ended, he returned to musical theatre and various other entertainment roles, including producing and directing.His father was an entertainment lawyer, Oscar Beuselinck, whose clients included Sean Connery, the Beatles, Private Eye and MGM.In 1966, Nicholas signed with Stigwood's Reaction Records label and his first single under his new name, "Club of Lights",[6] scraped into the lower reaches of the Radio London Fab Forty chart.Nicholas joined The Young Vic under Frank Dunlop and played Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and appeared in Crete and Sgt.While touring with O'Brien in Hair in 1970 he first heard and recorded two songs with Richard O’Brien from the yet to be produced Rocky Horror Show.In 1986, Nicholas continued to star in musicals including Jekyll and Hyde, Fiddler On The Roof’' and 42nd Street’' which was directed by the shows author Mark Bramble.He hosted two series of BBC Radio 2's Mad About Musical', as well as his own hour-long TV special, Paul and Friends, for Thames Television.[12] In 1997, Nicholas starred as the anti-hero of Karoline Leach's The Mysterious Mr. Love at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End.In 1998, he co-produced, with Bill Kenwright, a new musical based on Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities, starring as Sidney Carton.[13] In 2000, Nicholas appeared in the BBC television comedy drama Sunburn, playing David Janus, owner of the self-titled holiday company around which the series was created.In the summer of 2006, he was a celebrity showjumper in the BBC's Sport Relief event Only Fools on Horses, as well as appearing in Doctors, Heartbeat and Holby City.In 2009, Nicholas played Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard for the Carl Rosa Opera Company at the Tower of London Festival.[citation needed] In 2023, Nicholas resumed a UK tour of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' prior to a West End run.[citation needed] In 2024/25 Nicholas appeared as the Major at the Apollo Theatre in London in John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers: The Play.Paul Nicholas & David Ian Associates Ltd was formed to produce the 20th anniversary production of Jesus Christ Superstar on a UK-wide tour, which sold out.
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