When Michael Wasn't an Actor

A small intro: CW dug up this story after it was heard that a friend's father had worked with one Michael Crawford in London in the 1970s, but in an electrical job, not in theatre! CW guessed that it might have been during the dark time of Michael's career and decided to find out if it was *the* Michael. A letter was promptly dispatched to Michael, and he confirmed it all. (He also sent an autographed picture for the friend, too.)

The company where Michael Crawford worked with a friend's father organized a big electrical exhibition every two years at Earls Court (big exhibition centre in London -- it's where they have the Royal Tournament every year). The full name of the company was "Electrical Engineers (ASEE) Exhibition Limited" (the ASEE bit means "Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers" who they organized the exhibition for). The company was located in Museum Street in London -- you can actually see the building in Gumshoe, one of the films for which Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the score. Michael worked for Phil Thorogood.

After writing Michael about this job, he said he remembered working there and a quotation from his letter: "My fingers are still recovering from packing the parcels!"

Apparently it was the lowest rung on the ladder, office-junior type thing. My friend's Dad says he's not surprised Michael's fingers are still recovering--they used to spend months on end filling envelopes with brochures and stuff, all day long.

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