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Elaine nominated for a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award and Drama Desk Award

Elaine’s performance in ‘Follies’ has been nominated in the 13th Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards and the Annual Drama Desk Award 2012. The Annual Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards are notably the only major theatre prize chosen by Broadway theatregoers. The category which Elaine is nominated under is ‘Favourite Diva Performance’. The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on…

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The Complete Series 1 of 1980s series ‘Lady Killers’ released on DVD

This disturbing and compelling anthology series, ‘Lady Killers’, was made for British television in 1980. It presents dramatic reconstructions of seven infamous murder trials where in each case the defendant was female. Introduced by Robert Morley, these dramas feature powerful performances from an outstanding cast which includes Elaine Paige, Joan Sims, Rita Tushingham, George Baker, Peter Sallis and Michael Kitchen,…

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Elaine interviews her ‘Follies’ co-star Ron Raines

What happens when Follies star Elaine Paige sits down to interview her co-star Ron Raines? Listen now to the lively discussion about everything Follies and Sondheim: his lyrics, Sondheim as teacher, and the difficulty in performing Sweeney Todd, among other topics. Sondheim isn’t the only show in town. Paige and Raines also talk about balancing life and art, musical theatre…

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New York Times’ talks in-depthly with Elaine Paige

The New York Times’ Joyce Wadler has spoken in-depth with Elaine for a new article which is now online (see below link) and will be printed on November 20, 2011, on page AR4 of the New York edition with the headline: Smiling at the Old Days, And the Ones Still Ahead. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/theater/elaine-paige-returns-to-the-stage-in-follies.html?_r=1&ref=theater…

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Elaine features on the 2011 Broadway cast recording of Sondheim’s ‘Follies’

Elaine’s stunning solo rendition of ‘I’m Still Here’ is featured on the brand new double album recording of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’. Released on November 29th, the set feature over 30 tracks and reveals the full range of Sondheim’s brilliance (included is ‘Who’s That Woman’ – sometimes referred to as ‘Mirror, Mirror’ – also featuring Elaine and the whole ensemble). Produced…

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Backstage with Richard Ridge: Elaine Paige on FOLLIES, CATS, EVITA & More!

Follow Richard Ridge as he visits Broadway’s best and brightest in their Broadway dressing rooms to talk about their lives, careers and all of the things you don’t know, but want to know. In this instalment, Richard sits with Elaine – in her dressing room at FOLLIES at the Marquis Theatre: http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=276196#ixzz1Yg5tXzmG…

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Reviews for the 2011 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ at the Marquis Theatre

Elaine set foot, once again, onto the New York stage in the Broadway transfer of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’. Directed by Eric Schaeffer, Elaine joins Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Danny Burstein and Ron Raines in the limited engagement which began on August 7th at the Marquis Theatre, with the opening night on September 12th. MY DAILY NEWS British star Elaine Paige…

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Reviews for the 2011 Kennedy Centre production of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’

THEATERMANIA “True, there are great moments: Elaine Paige brings down the house with a magnificently executed “I’m Still Here,” which comes off as the anthem of a still-thriving survivor rather than a final summation of a long career.” BRUCE POMAHAC – DIRECTOR OF MUSIC/RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN ORGANISATION “Elaine Paige is not only superb, she is the best Carlotta Campion I’ve…

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