Elizabeth Larner

Elizabeth Larner (29 October 1932 – 11 March 2022) was a British actress and singer with a powerful soprano voice. While her main career was the musical theatre, appearing both in London's West End and on Broadway, she also played Ammonia in the BBC situation comedy Up Pompeii!. She later appeared in The Two Ronnies, supporting Ronnie Barker as "Piggy Malone" and Ronnie Corbett as "Charley Farley" in the 1981–1982 comic detective mystery serial Band of Slaves. Larner appeared on television from the mid-1950s. Her singing gained notice in the original London Coliseum production of Kiss Me, Kate when the star of the show Patricia Morison was ill. Larner was her understudy; she had previously b…