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To mark 40 years back her West End admission Elaine Paige, the UK's ˇ®First Lady of Musical Theatre', will commence on a apple bout on December 14th, with Beijing as its aboriginal leg.
She will sing highlights from her agreeable amphitheater career such as "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from "Evita," "Memory" from "Cats" that abounding humans apperceive and love; "Je Ne Regrette Rien" and "If You Loved Me" from the agreeable "Piaf" about the activity of the abundant French accompanist Edith Piaf, and "I Know Him So Well" from the agreeable "Chess," which was a No. 1 hit for Paige and Barbara Dickson.
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Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige abounding the Aida Foster date academy and fabricated her aboriginal able actualization on date in 1964. Her actualization in the 1968 assembly of Hair apparent her West End debut. Elain Paign aboriginal accretion world-renowned acclaim if she was called in 1978 to actualize the role of Eva Peron in the aboriginal assembly of ˇ°Evitaˇ±, which awarded her Best Actress in a Musical. In 1981 she starred in ˇ°Catsˇ± if she played Grizabella in the aboriginal London assembly and thereby became the aboriginal added to accomplish the archetypal song ˇ°Memoryˇ± - one of her abounding hit records. Ms Paige revisited this role in the television blur and video of ˇ°Catsˇ± which was appear in 1998 and went beeline to the top of the video archive acceptable the best affairs music video anytime in the UK and America.
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In accession to accepting nominated for5Laurence Olivier Awards, Paige has won abounding added awards for her theatre roles and has been alleged the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. She has appear 20 abandoned albums, of which eight were consecutively certified gold and addition four multi-platinum.
