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Post by partytentdown on Oct 20, 2023 12:20:01 GMT
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Post by n1david on Oct 20, 2023 12:20:46 GMT
This is very sad. She had to pull out of Old Friends which was due to start in September, so whatever it was must have been sudden. Last saw her as the Prue Leith character in GBBO The Musical, but she was great in everything, even when the material wasn't.
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Post by ThereWillBeSun on Oct 20, 2023 12:53:46 GMT
Did a double take when I just heard it on the radio.
So sad. 😭
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 20, 2023 13:08:37 GMT
I'm quite shocked to read this. It seems so quick, considering she presumably must have been in reasonable health until just before she pulled out of Old Friends, & that was only a few weeks ago.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 20, 2023 13:10:33 GMT
What a shock. Just popped up on my phone.
Last time I also saw her was GBBO musical.
Such a young age too.
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Post by LaLuPone on Oct 20, 2023 13:15:11 GMT
Absolutely tragic  |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 20, 2023 13:16:12 GMT
What a tremendous loss. She was one of the very best.
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Post by solangelafitte on Oct 20, 2023 13:19:15 GMT
As I said in the Old Friends thread this is desperately sad. She was just wonderful. What a shock.
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Post by marob on Oct 20, 2023 13:33:30 GMT
Very sad news. As n1david said she was always great no matter what she was in.
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Post by Jan on Oct 20, 2023 14:29:56 GMT
First saw her on stage in 1995 in the RSC Peer Gynt with Alex Jennings. Last saw her 2018 in The Way of the World at the Donmar.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 20, 2023 14:31:28 GMT
First saw her on stage in 1995 in the RSC Peer Gynt with Alex Jennings. Last saw her 2018 in The Way of the World at the Donmar. She was also a fine Volumnia for the RSC |
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Post by Jon on Oct 20, 2023 15:07:56 GMT
The most Hadyn Gwynne iconic role for me is Camilla in The Windsors. You have to wonder if they will have to recast the role,
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Post by marob on Oct 20, 2023 15:36:43 GMT
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Post by sf on Oct 20, 2023 16:29:06 GMT
A brilliant talent with razor-sharp timing and a wonderful singing voice. Memorable in everything she was in, from Nice Work to City of Angels to Women on the Verge... to The Windsors. And her Christmas episode of Drop the Dead Donkey is one of the funniest episodes of a British sitcom ever made.
RIP. 66 is no age at all.
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Post by theatreian on Oct 20, 2023 16:46:46 GMT
Such a tragic loss. R.I.P. Haydn.
Such a talent and so lovely when we met you after the gala last year.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2023 16:52:20 GMT
Such sad news, the first thing I can remember her in was Nice Work which SF has mentioned. A former classmate had a cameo in it and the next morning he got on the bus looking around in case anyone recognised him. She was great in Drop the Dead Donkey just after that, I cannot remember if she left Drop the Dead Donkey to return to stage or to have a family.
But such a tragic loss as she was still at the top of her game and could do drama, comedy, musicals the lot. Must have been very sudden too given she was in stuff right up until having to step back from Old Friends.
Saw her on stage a few times most recently at RSC.
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Post by Dr Tom on Oct 20, 2023 20:07:19 GMT
So sudden and so young. It only seems weeks since I saw her cartwheeling across the stage in GBBO and stealing the show.
A fantastic actor.
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Post by Jan on Oct 20, 2023 20:49:52 GMT
On TV I remember her in the David Lodge adaptation Nice Work in 1989. It was her first prominent role.
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Post by Mark on Oct 20, 2023 21:02:01 GMT
A very sad loss. A wonderful performer.
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Post by craig on Oct 21, 2023 8:25:43 GMT
Absolutely heartbreaking news. Such a wonderful talent.
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Post by karloscar on Oct 21, 2023 17:05:07 GMT
Such a great loss of a tremendous talent. I saw her in City of Angels and of course she stole the show surrounded by a terrific cast. When Billy Elliot opened she made you forget Julie Walters had ever been Mrs Wilkinson, no easy task at the time.
There have been some lovely tributes online, Ian McKellen remembering dancing with her for days in the finale of Beauty and the Beast, and Lauren Molina's Instagram (lomo212) has some lovely pics and memories of the production of A Little Night Music they did together.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 21, 2023 17:43:12 GMT
City of Angels was a real treat. Brilliant cast, classy production.
What you don't know about women and You can always count on me have remained favourite numbers of mine - in large part because of Haydn's performance
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Post by ukpuppetboy on Oct 21, 2023 20:12:54 GMT
City of Angels was a real treat. Brilliant cast, classy production. What you don't know about women and You can always count on me have remained favourite numbers of mine - in large part because of Haydn's performance Couldn’t agree with you more oxfordsimon. Her Oolie (and THAT rendition of YCACOM) remain one of the best performances I’ve ever been lucky enough to have seen. Such a devastating loss to the industry & everyone close to her. #RIP |
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Post by NorthernAlien on Oct 22, 2023 13:11:37 GMT
I'm so shocked by this - I saw her twice this year, once in the Bake Off musical, and then in July in When Winston... at The Donmar. She was terrific in both productions - in very different roles.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Oct 23, 2023 0:25:21 GMT
Terribly sad news. I consider myself lucky to have seen her several times on stage in City of Angels, Billy Elliot, The Audience, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and The Threepenny Opera. She always delivered excellent performances. Such a tragic loss  |
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Post by alece10 on Oct 23, 2023 14:44:55 GMT
Nice obituary in the Times.
Didn't realise she was in Zeigfeld at the London Palladium which was a big flop. It was a bizarre musical.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2023 18:58:25 GMT
I saw her on stage a fair few times and a load of her TV work but realised I'd never seen her in a musical live. Ironic her last stage role was as Stanley Baldwin as she'd have been the perfect actress to have taken on more gender blind/reversal characters in her younger days with her tall selender build especially some of the Shakesperian roles.
Also she never got a gong in any of the honours lists despite having a very successful career and getting lots of acting awards or nominations. Some of the acting dames don't have resumes better than Hadyn had.
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