Elaine Paige

On stage 2 productions, 17 years

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

In the literature8 passages

• My own performing dream came true in 1989, when I debuted in Anything Goes with Elaine Paige in the West End, and I believed this kind of programme was one way for me to give back a little. But you know what else? I think it’s really nice to do good things for good people, and to see them have a chance to experience something that, for wh…ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• 29 Thanks to all my mates at BBC Radio 2: Elaine Paige; her producer, Malcolm Prince; Steve Wright; and Jonathan Ross.ebooks/Barrowman, Carole E_/I Am What I Am - Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• I learned later that the casting team immediately called Elaine Paige, exclaiming, ‘We’ve found him!’ Elaine, who was playing Reno Sweeney in the production, was also one of the show’s producers, so she was involved in the audition process. Elaine’s own West End debut had been in Hair in 1969. By the time she starred as Eva Perón in Sir T…ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• ‘Don’t worry, honey,’ I said aloud to Elaine Paige, leading lady extraordinaire and the woman who quite literally held my fate in her hands, ‘I’ll keep you up. I’ll keep you in time!’ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• By the time my class was ready to return to USIU without me, friends like Marilyn were still important in my life, but I’d taken Elaine Paige’s advice and flushed out ‘the Negative Nellies’. Peter and some of the others had long since been stopped at the stage door.ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt
• I remember Elaine Paige telling me in the early days of my career that when your work family and your real family support you equally, you’re on the right road. As Eve, Clare and I stumbled home that night, the road felt pretty steady under my feet.ebooks/Barrowman, John & Barrowman, Carole E_/Anything Goes - John Barrowman & Carole E. Barrowman.txt

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