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HER FIRST EVER DVD RELEASE
‘Elaine Paige Live
Celebrating 40 Years on Stage’
Filmed at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia during Elaine Paige’s sell out 40th Anniversary tour at the end of 2009, her first ever dvd Elaine Paige Live – Celebrating 40 Years on Stage captures the magic of this thrilling live performer as never before.
From her beginnings in the musical Hair Elaine Paige takes the viewer on a journey from the West End to Broadway with performances and amusing and enlightening anecdotes from Elaine’s illustrious career which includes Evita, Chess, Cats, Anything Goes, Sunset Boulevard, The King & I and many more some in character costume.
The dvd also includes Lennon & McCartney’s Yesterday (her audition song for Evita,) Shoot the Breeze (written by Bette Midler & Dustin Hoffman), By The Sea from Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd in which Elaine played Mrs Lovett in the New York City Opera production and Small Packages, a song especially written for Elaine for this 40th Anniversary tour by Stiles & Drewe (Mary Poppins, Honk!). Also featured are the first lady of musical theatre’s greatest hits captured live on film, many for the first time ever – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, As If We Never Said Goodbye, I Know Him So Well, I Don’t Know How To Love Him, With One Look and of course Elaine’s own signature Memory along with a selection of songs from her critically acclaimed West End production of Piaf.
Included on the dvd as a bonus extra track is a live performance captured during rehearsal of the song Grow Young from her album Love Can Do That and a fascinating interview with Elaine giving the viewer insight into the career of this
For those who have attended Elaine’s live concerts this dvd will be a wonderful souvenir and for others it will give the viewer a chance to witness this remarkable and legendary performer doing what she does best.
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Elaine Paige performs ‘I Know Him So Well’ with Susan Boyle on ‘The Susan Boyle Story’ which aired on ITV December 2009
 
Elaine onstage in concert and as Mrs Lovett in the New York City Opera production of Sweeney Tod
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