On 21st November 1989, I was sitting in the Dress Circle of the Richmond Theatre in London as part of an advert being filmed to encourage members of the public to buy shares in the Water Companies.
The advert involved us as members of the audience watching an orchestra playing on the stage.
During the performance the word spreads around that shares are now available for sale and a few people leave the theatre to go to buy them. Then the exodus increases and eventually even members of the orchestra begin to leave the stage to go and buy the shares. The advert concludes with no audience and only a few bewildered members of the orchestra still sitting on stage who cannot make up their minds to buy shares or not.
The Advert started to be aired in early 1990 and the sale of Water Shares was a success as well as subsequent Gas shares, Electricity Shares and other similar floatations at that time.
This was the second advert that I had been involved with. The first had been the two days I spent on one for "Shell Petrol". In 1990 I was in another one for "Cornetto" Ice Cream, a "British Telecom "one in 1992, one for "Hugo Boss" in 1994 and one for "Halifax", being part of a X in their famous human X adverts in 1999.
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