The year began with a concert performance of the Jerry Herman/Michael Stewart musical ’Mack and Mabel’ in aid of the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The live recording was later released as an LP. Another pivotal role for Sophie quickly followed - Sybil in Noel Coward’s ’Private Lives’ She was directed once more by Warren Hooper, with Michelle Newell, Richard Heffer and John Flanagan also in the cast. The production was firstly at the Tyne Theatre, Newcastle and then at The Bristol Old Vic. Sophie then returned to the Nottingham Playhouse for an extended season firstly for Keith Dewhirst’s adaptation of Flora Thompson’s novel ’Lark Rise to Candleford’ directed by Richard Frost then for the role of Alice in her second Nottingham pantomime, ’Dick Whittington’, written by Kenneth Alan Taylor and directed by Richard Frost with Susie McKenna once again the principal boy.