Elaine Paige News — Page 2

She is doing a revival of J/H

It will be modeled after that trashy movie Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde . She goes back & forth between her & Lupone.

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Word on the street says that Elaine is teaming up with Elton John to do a musical based on the lives of Waylon Flowers and Madame.

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All right, I'll be really sentimental: if she were to recreate her CATS performance, in her late 60s, it would be simply stunning. I have zero interest in the show, but would go. I saw the original production, 6 weeks into its run, when it was just ... you know, a show ... in the West End. It would take guts, and it would be, in sheer theatrical nostalgic terms, deeply moving, the show itself might even move forward.

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A final word: I saw Paige in FOLLIES in DC, and then on B'way. I was lucky to see one of the two performances when they removed the intermission, post a session with Sondheim. That night, Paige nailed "I'm Still Here" with an almost iconic gravitas. She built the lyric with precision. It was unforgettable. I went back about 3 months later, she was still fine, but that night, the muse was in the building, and she owned the character and song as few have. And I'm a die-hard original production fanatic, having seen it twice in my youth.

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