South Yorkshire Times, May 16th, 1970
She’ll Be In Summer Show In Cornwall
Booked for a 19-week run at a summer show at the Cosy Nook Theatre, Newquay, is Denise Wilson of 17, Tingle Bridge Crescent, Hemingfield, whose professional name is Susan Richards.
A talented soprano, she will combine singing with a touch of dancing and acting – “a bit of all-round entertaining,” she says – in her longest run to date.
Denise has been booked by hypnotic-entertainer Peter Casson at whose club Ki-Ki in Doncaster and Club Ba-Ba at Barnsley excerpts from the summer show are being given this week and next week. Denise will then move off to Newquay to go into full rehearsal for the summer show.
The show is being produced by Dennis Lake, who also acts as choreographer and costumier. The Newquay show will be in the form of a revue, and it is said that the costumes are “fabulous”.
David Hale, who is Denise’s personal organist and who travels with her in her engagements throughout the country, has been engaged as accompanist for the show.
Denise started stage work as a member of Wombwell Service of Youth’s opera group, and afterwards was a principal with Wombwell Amateur Operatic Society and with Barnsley Y.M.C.A. Operatic Society. Her last amateur performance was in the title role in “The Merry Widow” by the Y.M.C.A. Operatic Society.
As Susan Richards, she became a full-time professional three years ago and since that time has travelled widely in England, and has also had a week’s engagement in Dublin. Last Christmas and New Year she did a pantomime season in “Aladdin” at Scunthorpe, and hopes again to be cast in pantomime for a three months’ run in the Lincolnshire area next Christmas.
A charming blonde, Denise has personality and vivacity to match her beautiful voice.