The theatre was home to the original version of the musical Spend Spend Spend, the story of the life of Viv Nicholson, the 1961 famous Pools winner and author of the book of the same name.
Spend Spend Spend | I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You | I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night |
Mercer went on to work in such stage productions as Bent, Spend Spend Spend, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Billy Liar, Stop The Children's Laughter, Welcome Home, Romeo and Juliet, The Fancy Man, The York Realist, Beauty and The Beast and Revengers Tragedy.
She joined STV North (then known as Grampian Television) in January 2000 as a news reporter & presenter and also presented three series' of feature series The People Show (alongside Chris Harvey), as well as a lifestyle programme called Spend, Spend, Spend.