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Victoria Wood CBE 19 May — 20 April was an English comedianactress, lyricist, singer, composerpianistthursday singles night asda, screenwriterthursday singles night asda, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano.
Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to activities, attitudes and products that are considered to exemplify Britain. She was noted for her skills in observational comedy and in satirising aspects of social class.
Wood started her career in by appearing on, and winning, the ATV talent show New Faces. She established herself as a comedy star in the s, winning a BAFTA TV Award in for the sketch series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV —87and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics, [3] winning a second BAFTA for An Audience with Victoria Wood In the s, she wrote and co-starred in the television film Pat and Margaretand the sitcom dinnerladies —which she also produced.
Victoria Wood was the youngest child of Stanley Wood, an insurance salesman, thursday singles night asda, who also wrote songs for his company's Christmas parties, was the author of the musical play "Clogs" based in a Lancashire village in and also wrote part time for Coronation Street, Northern Drift and others; [6] and Ellen "Nellie" Wood née Mape.
Wood was born in Prestwich and brought up in nearby Bury. She was educated at Fairfield County Primary School [9] and Bury Grammar School for Girls[10] where she immediately found herself out of her depth. I was always top of the class, and when I went to grammar school I thursday singles night asda not deal with everyone being as clever I went under.
I was a mess, a bit of a misfit. I didn't have any friends, let alone try to be funny I didn't do any work, thursday singles night asda, didn't have clean clothes and didn't wash.
If I didn't have any money I'd steal from people, and if I hadn't done my homework I'd steal someone else's. Thursday singles night asda was envious of all the groups: the horsey group, the girls who went out with boys, the clever ones. Looking back, I feel really sorry for that little girl.
Wood developed eating disordersbut inher father gave her a piano for her 15th birthday. I was reading, writing and working at the piano all the time. I was doing a lot of other things that helped me to perform".
Wood began her show business career while an undergraduate, appearing on the TV talent show New Faces in in She had met long-term collaborator Julie Walters inwhen Wood applied to the Manchester School of Theatrethen part of Manchester Polytechnic. Its success led to the commissioning of Wood's first play Talent instarring Hazel Clyne in a role originally written for Waltersfor which Wood won an award for the Most Promising New Writer.
Peter Eckersleythe head of drama at Granada Televisionsaw Talent and invited Wood to create a television thursday singles night asda. This time, Julie Walters took the lead role, while Wood reprised her stage role. The success of the television version of Talent led to Wood writing the follow-up Nearly a Happy Ending, thursday singles night asda. Shortly afterwards she wrote a third play for Granada, Happy Since I Met Youagain with Walters alongside Duncan Preston as the male lead.
In she wrote and starred in the stage play Good Fun. Recognising her talent, Eckersley offered Wood a sketch show, although Wood was unsure of the project: she only agreed to go ahead if Walters received equal billing.
Eckersley came up with an obvious title — Wood and Walters[17] and the pilot episode was recorded. It led to a full series, featuring Duncan Preston and a supporting cast.
In the period between the completion of the pilot and the shooting of the series, Eckersley died. Wood credited him with giving thursday singles night asda her first big break, and felt that Wood and Walters suffered due to his death. Wood appeared as a presenter in Yorkshire Television 's schools television programme for hearing-impaired children, Insightin a remake of the series originally presented by Derek Griffiths.
In and she appeared as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute. In October Wood performed her first solo stand-up show, Lucky Bagin a five-week run at the King's Head Theatre in Islington. The show transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre for a night run in February Lucky Bag went on a short UK tour in November and December and was also released as a live album recorded at the Edinburgh Festival in Wood left Granada in for the BBC, which promised her more creative control over projects.
Later that year her sketch show Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV went into production. Wood chose the actors: her friend Julie Walters once again starred, as did Duncan Preston.
Wood's friends Celia ImrieSusie Blake and Patricia Routledge were in the cast. As Seen on TV featured the Acorn Antiques series of sketches, thursday singles night asda, parodying the low-budget soap opera Crossroadsand rumoured to be named after an antiques shop in her birthplace. Acorn Antiques is remembered for characters such as "Mrs Overall" played by Waltersthe deliberately bad camera angles and wobbling sets, and Celia Imrie's sarcastic tone as "Miss Babs".
One of Wood's most popular comic songs, [3] The Ballad of Barry and Freda Let's Do Itoriginated on this show. It tells the story thursday singles night asda Freda thursday singles night asda woman eager for sex and Barry an introverted man terrified of intimate relationsand makes clever use of allusions to a multitude of risqué activities while avoiding all taboo words.
Following the success of the first series of Victoria Wood: As Seen on TVWood went on tour again with Lucky Bag in March Scenea documentary for BBC2 later that year, showed footage of Wood preparing for the tour. A second series of Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV was made in Before filming began in the summer, Wood went on a short 23 date tour of England and Scotland during March and April.
A final 'Special' minute episode of As Seen on TV was made in and broadcast later that year. During autumn Wood went on the road with what was to be her largest tour yet. The tour included a sell-out two-week run at the London Palladiumand had a second leg in the spring of In she appeared in the BAFTA -winning An Audience with Victoria Wood for ITV. At the time of recording the show she was six months pregnant.
The end of saw the release of her second live performance Victoria Wood Liverecorded at the Brighton Dome. During this period Wood moved away from the sketch show format and into more self-contained works, often with a bittersweet flavour. Victoria Wood six parts, featured Wood in several individual stories such as "We'd Quite Like To Apologise", set in an airport departure lounge, and "Over to Pam", set around a fictional talk show.
In MayWood began a large tour of the United Kingdom, which was followed by a thursday singles night asda run at the Strand Theatre in London titled Victoria Wood Up West.
Wood took the show on the road again during March and Aprilwhere it was recorded at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, and later released as Victoria Wood Sold Out in Inshe appeared on the Comic Relief single performing the "The Smile Song", the flipside to "The Stonk" a record by ITV comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace with charity supergroup The Stonkers. However, even though it was a joint-single with "The Smile Song" credited on the front of the single cover [25] and listed as track 2 on the seven-inch and CD single rather than being a B-sidethe UK singles chart compilers now the Official Charts Company did not credit her with having number one hit, in a situation similar to the fate of BAD II's " Rush ", the AA-side of the preceding number one, " Should I Stay or Should I Go " by The Clash.
She briefly returned to sketches for the Christmas Day special Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast. In AprilWood began a seven-month tour of the UK. The date tour broke box office records, including 15 sell out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, and played to residencies in Sheffield, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Leicester, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Oxford, Southampton, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and Hull, thursday singles night asda.
The television film Pat and Margaretstarring Wood and Julie Walters as long-lost sisters with very different lifestyles, thursday singles night asda, continued her return to stand-alone plays with a poignant undercurrent to the comedy. The special featured stand-up routines, character monologues and songs. Wood set out on thursday singles night asda date tour of the UK in Maywhich played at venues in Leicester, Sheffield, Ipswich, thursday singles night asda, Blackpool, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Brighton, Nottingham, thursday singles night asda, Oxford, Southend, Manchester and Cambridge.
The tour culminated with another 15 sell-out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in the autumn. The tour recommenced in April in Liverpool and then travelled to Australia and New Zealand during the summer. It was later released as Victoria Wood Live In OctoberWood released a compilation of 14 of her songs titled Victoria Wood, Real Life The Songs.
Her first sitcom dinnerladiescontinued her now established milieu of mostly female, mostly middle-aged characters depicted vividly and amusingly, thursday singles night asda, but with a counterpoint of sadder themes. December saw the Christmas sketch show special Victoria Wood with All the Trimmingsfeaturing her regular troupe of actors as well as a string of special guest stars including Hugh LaurieAngela RipponBob MonkhouseBill PatersonDelia Smith and Roger Moore.
She re-wrote the entire first half of the show and incorporated the operation into her act. The date tour included 12 nights at the Royal Albert Hall and had a further 23 dates in During this period, Wood tended to move away from comedy to concentrate on drama.
She continued to produce one-off specials including Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story and Victoria Wood's Big Fat Documentary Wood wrote her first musical, Acorn Antiques: The Musical! It starred several of the original cast, thursday singles night asda Sally Ann Triplett playing Miss Berta played in the series by Wood. Wood played Julie Walters' lead role of Mrs Overall for Monday and Wednesday matinee performances, thursday singles night asda.
Wood wrote the one-off ITV serious drama Housewife, 49an adaptation of the diaries of Nella Lastand played the eponymous role of an introverted middle-aged thursday singles night asda who discovers new confidence and friendships in Lancashire during the Second World War, thursday singles night asda.
Housewife, 49 was critically acclaimed, and Wood won BAFTAs for both her acting and writing for this drama — a rare double. In NovemberWood directed a revival production of Acorn Antiques: The Musical! with a new cast. The musical opened at the Lowry in Salford in December and toured the United Kingdom from January to July In Januaryshe appeared as herself in a series of advertisements featuring famous people working for the supermarket chain Asda.
They featured Wood working in the bakery and introduced a catchphrase — "there's no place like ASDA". Wood appeared in a three-part travel documentary on BBC One called Victoria's Empirein which she travelled around the world in search of the history, cultural impact and customs the British Empire placed on the parts of the world it ruled. She departed Victoria Station, London, for CalcuttaHong Kong and Borneo in the first programme.
In programme two she visited GhanaJamaica and Thursday singles night asda and in the final programme, New ZealandAustralia and Zambiafinishing at the Victoria Falls. In a tribute to Wood, the British television station UKTV Gold celebrated her work with a weekend marathon of programmes between 3 and 4 Novemberfeaturing programmes such as Victoria Wood Live and Dinnerladies and Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV — its first screening on British television since Wood returned to stand-up comedy, with a special performance for the celebratory show Happy Birthday BAFTA on 28 Octoberalongside other household names.
The programme was transmitted on ITV1 on Wednesday 7 November In Decemberwhen a guest on the radio programme Desert Island DiscsWood said she was about to make her first foray into film, writing a script described as a contemporary comedy about a middle-aged person. On Thursday, 12 JuneWood was a member of the celebrity guest panel on the series The Apprentice: You're Fired! on BBC Two.
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