Margaretta Scott on television); "An Ideal Husband" (1976/1977 Tour) and "Lady Windermere's Fan" (Canada 1979). Her last West End role was with Leo McKern in the revival of "Hobson's Choice" (1984) directed by Frank Hauser.<ref name="http://www.cft.org.uk/1995"></ref> Scott was one of the first women to perform Shakespeare on television, in the role of Beatrice in a stage production of "Much Ado About Nothing" broadcast by the BBC in 1937. In 1946, she portrayed Portia in a made for television production of "The Merchant of Venice". For twenty-five years, from the 1970s, Scott played a number of distinguished parts in popular television dramas. These
Much Ado talents I have found is his ability to write music in the style befitting the age his work is set, as MUCH ADO so admirably demonstrates. Paul McGann's singing voice adds style. and panache to his solo numbers (If I Could Write A Sonnet and The Strange Affliction Called Love) as well as a pleasing accompaniment to the redoubtable Claire Moore In Disdain" and Then Kill For Me. Of course, as always Claire Moore gives a breathtaking performance with (among others) I'll Never Marry and How Can This Be, but then that lady can do no wrong in my book.