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4 unusual facts about Sandy WIlson


Emanuel Gandolfo

Emanuel continues to perform regularly on television and the stage, including a local production of Sandy Wilson's musical, Aladdin, in 2004.

Julian and Sandy

According to a BBC Radio 4 programme on the characters, they were named after the writers Sandy Wilson and Julian Slade.

Robert Tanitch

His comedies include Call It Love?, with musical numbers by Sandy Wilson, which was staged at Wyndham's Theatre, London and in Vienna in 1960; Came the Knight, directed by Trevor Nunn at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, circa 1963; and Highly Confidential, which starred Hermione Gingold at the Cambridge Theatre, London, in 1969.

Ronald Firbank

A musical comedy of 1958 by Sandy Wilson gave the novel some popularity in the 1960s, and has been revived several times and recorded on CD.


Brian Ferriman

sometime in the seventies - Brian, Jim Chapman, and Sandy WIlson renovates an old schoolhouse somewhere in Ontario to form Springfield Sound, a recording studio where such musicians as Bernard Purdie record with Brian, Jim and Sandy as their affable hosts.


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