Educational Schools in Tring and on the
musical theatre course in London.
She made her West End debut in 42nd Street
at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane where she
starred for two years after taking over the
leading role of Peggy Sawyer, which she did
with great personal and public success. She
then went on to make her first of many
appearances in the hit musical Cats on the
first UK national tour playing Rumpleteazer,
repeating the role in the West End at the New
London Theatre. With three stints on tour
and three in the West End Barbara has
totalled virtually eight years with the show,
having also played the roles of Demeter,
Jennyanydots and Grizabella. Barbara was
part of the final cast when the show closed in
London and was then asked to join the UK
tour as Demeter and take the position of
Assistant Resident Director.
Other West End shows include the RNT’s
production of Carousel at the Shaftesbury
Theatre; Which Witch at the Piccadilly; Hey
Mr Producer at the Lyceum and Dick
Whittington the Musical at Sadler’s Wells.
On tour Barbara played Estella in Great
Expectations opposite Darren Day and the
title role in Rodgers and Hart’s The Girlfriend
opposite Patrick Mower. Other theatre work
includes Pitti Sing in The Mikado for Opera
Della Luna; Side by Side by Sondheim, Prince
Regent, Farnborough; Godspell at the
Barbican Centre; Seven Brides for Seven
Brothers, Theatre Royal York and West Side
Story, Nottingham Playhouse. She played the
leading role of Charlotte in the Restoration
comedy The Contrast at the Cochrane and
played Katherine Howard in The Marital
Woes of Henry VIII for the American
Bar Association.
In concert Barbara has appeared with Sacha
Distel and Rosemarie Ford in Golden Songs of
the Silver Screen, on board the QEII on its
world tour with The Wonderful West End and
The Best of Broadway and more recently in
Alvin Stardust’s 70s Show and Rockin’
Around the Xmas Tree tour.
Barbara ahs appeared in Da Block, a pilot
series of six episodes for an internet soap
opera and in her first feature film, Treasure
of Albion, she starred as Mrs Morgan
alongside Todd Carty. Most recently Barbara
completed her second film role for the British
Youth Film Project in The School That Roared
with Phil Cool.