Archives: Cast Members

Debbie joined BasOp in 1994 to be part of the cast of ‘Oliver!’. She then played the principal role of Lauren in ‘Oklahoma’ in 1995. Debbie has enjoyed being in both the chorus and other roles during her time with BasOp. She also palyed the role of Hope Harcourt in ‘Anything Goes’ in 2001.
Debbie is looking forward to playing the part of Yente in BasOps ‘Fiddle on the Roof’ 2017

Charlotte is 20 years old and lives in Basildon, she has been performing since the age of four in shows throughout the London area and Essex. Not only has she sung on a number of occasions in BasOp’s annual ‘Alternative’ Concerts but has actually performed at Disney Land Paris. Charlotte studied performing arts as one of her ‘A’ levels at Brentwood Ursuline College and has performed with amateur groups across Essex.  Her roles include Nancy in ‘Oliver’ and Sandra In ‘Made in Dagenham’

Alex started performing from a very young age going to weekly singing, dancing and acting classes at The Dawn Wenn Stage School. Alex started out his professional career in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium when he was 9 years old. He also appeared on the UK tour of Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Whistle Down The Wind. His love for musical theatre grew and grew over the years landing lead roles in all of his school productions of which some include, We Will Rock You, Hairspray, Disco Inferno and Little Shop Of Horrors.

Alex currently works for the Ambulance Service and continues to progress in his goal to become a Paramedic. Alex joined BasOp over two years ago now and has loved every single minute! His first show with Basop was Guys And Dolls playing one of the Crapshooters, and most recently played Mendel the Rabbi’s son in Fiddler On The Roof. Alex’s favourite part of Fiddler was the Bottle Dance!

He Continues to take regular trips into the West End to see shows and also supports local groups in all their shows. “Here’s to many more happy years at BasOp!”

Vikki trained at The London School of Musical Theatre from where she graduated in 2007. In 2011 Vikki had the privilege to work at ‘Stage Door Manor Performing Arts School’ in New York, USA, choreographing 3 full-scale musicals in 9 weeks and was Associate Director for the charity performance of ‘The Wedding Singer’ at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff in 2014
Professional performing Credits include: Stinkerbell and Fairy Grandmother in the premiere of ‘It’s Behind You!’ (Union theatre, London) Sarah ‘The Pajama Game’ (Union theatre, London) ‘Another Kind Of Magic, Queen in Symphony’ (Scandinavian Arena tour) Female vocalist ‘Summer Spectacular’ (Pier theatre, Bournemouth) Devon in new musical ‘Fabula’ (Cochrane theatre, London) ‘Christmas in New York’ (Apollo theatre, London) Lt Flare ‘The Kosmic Krew’ (UK tour) ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ (Zurich, Switzerland) and for many years pantomimes across the country.
Directing work includes: ‘Fiddler On The Roof’ (Palace Theatre, Westcliff) & ‘Guys & Dolls’ (Palace Theatre, Westcliff) both for BasOp.
Choreographic work includes: ‘Sweet Charity’ (Palace Theatre, Westcliff) ‘Spring Awakening’ and ‘Our House’ (Mirren studio, Basildon) ‘Notre Dame’ (Towngate theatre, Basildon) ‘Red Hot and Jazz’ (Questors theatre, Ealing) ‘New York New York’ (UK tour) ‘Oliver’, ‘Half A Sixpence’ and ‘West Side Story’ (Towngate theatre, Basildon) ‘The Recognition of Sakuntala’ (Union theatre, London) ‘Oklahoma!’ (Broadway theatre, Catford)
In her spare time (when not running around after her 2 year old son) she runs her own successful cake decorating business ‘Forever Cupcakes’. Vikki is very lucky to be able to share her passion for theatre with her wonderful husband Mathew, who is very supportive and grounds her in her moments of madness. She also has 2 wonderful stepdaughters Rosi (15) and Olivia (10) and handsome son Joseph (2).

Dave joined BASOP back in 1993, his father heard him singing whilst laying under the car fixing a hole in the exhaust pipe, with a baked bean tin and three jubilee clips, (other clips are available) and said to Dave ” you will be interested in doing something I do on a tuesday evening.” “I’ll pick you up at seven thirty” were his parting words. Dave’s wife was very proud as she watched his father drag him kicking and screaming to the car saying “you WILL like it”.
Well its now quite a few years on and Dave is still performing with BasOp. The first character role was playing an 18 year old apprentice called Noah Claypole in “Oliver” when he was 36! He still has those boyish looks. He has played a number of roles over the years; the Pirate king for BasOp’s 70th anniversary in 2000, Moonface Martin from ‘Anything Goes’, Brannigan and Big Jule from ‘Guys and Dolls’, and a number of others.  Dave has taken up ensemble roles including a pirate, a policeman, a doctor, a tramp, a beggar, a triple character role in ‘under milk wood’ playing Mr Waldo, Mr Pugh & the faithful Organ Morgan and even a little Shakespere with the role of Dogberry in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.  Dave has taken on some professional work for 20th Century, ITV, BBC and Sky 1.  He has played supporting cast in 9 movies including ‘V’ for Vendetta, the nasty soldier who hits Steven Fry and the aide to Albert Finney in Amazing Grace.  Dave has also appeared in 15 Bollywood movies, played a chief inspector of police in a trilogy, co-lead in the film ‘Short’ made for the international short film awards in Hollywood where he played a cockney Jewish father from East London, and a supporting lead in the film 7 ‘Welcome to London’ he was the announcer.  After taking a break from BasOp Dave is glad to be back amongst some old friends and loves working with the new and young members. The enthusiasm in the members has remained the same, even if some of the bodies are not so keen!

Ian first set foot on a stage nearly 10 years ago but has been a show-off for thirty more than that! He entered the Am Dram world as an enthusiastic novice, his enthusiasm has not dimmed but he now has one or two more skills…apart from dancing!
He has appeared in shows with LTC and SODS in the Southend area, performing in a variety of roles including Bauman in Mack and Mabel, Lazar Wolf in Fiddler on the Roof & Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls.
Ian is a Teacher and has shared the benefit of his own stupidity with many students in this area of Essex. He spends his spare time playing ukulele & participating in quiz nights… usually not at the same time.
He was overjoyed to play Nathan Detroit on joining BasOp in 2015 for the production of ‘Guys and Dolls’ seeing him taking his first leading role. It was an ambition held for many years and he found it hard to believe he was given the chance. Ian not only loved the role but also being a member of an amazing cast and joining the Society, he has recently joined the committee and hopes to help progress BasOp.