Dame Elaine Paige
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864 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Dame Elaine Paige’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It felt a wonderful place, a safe place to be in that I felt safe because I knew what was going on.
And I like the idea of hiding, in a way, behind this character.
And I sang the...
aria not really knowing what it was about because it was in Italian but I thought well I'll zip it up a bit and make it emotional and I sort of you know emoted towards the end of this aria and I always remember that all the parents sort of went gasped and I think and I think well I know because they my parents afterwards said to me oh darling are you all right you you forgot what you were doing you forgot the words and
And I said, no, I got very indignant.
I said, no, no, I was acting.
And my father said, oh, sorry, sorry, beg your pardon.
But it wasn't long after that that he...
suggested to me, I guess I must have been about 14 or 15 by now, I expect.
It wasn't long after that, he suggested to me, would I like to go to drama school?
And it was dad who suggested, I would never have thought of this in a million years.
I think he really did.
In his heart of hearts, he was a true musician and would love to have been, yes, on the stage in some way or other, either as a musician or... So you fulfilled... He was a bit of a comedian as well.
I mean, when we went on holidays sometimes to holiday camp down in Middleton-on-Sea or somewhere, and, you know, they always get people up to do things, don't they?
Yeah.
And my mother was furious.
He put on a pair of, he had very slim legs, my dad, like bird's legs.
And she never allowed him to wear shorts.
And he always had to wear trousers.
But he put on a pair of shorts to the knees, you know, khaki.
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