Dame Elaine Paige

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864 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Dame Elaine Paige · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And in the end, it was whittled down to three of us again.

But my dad had always said to me, you know, perseverance furthers, you must have something, keep going, stick with it.

And it became a bit of a family joke.

He said, well, there's always Evita.

And anyway, and then I think it was the sort of Easter weekend, I did a final, what I thought was a final audition.

And the three of us went on one after the other at the Palace Theatre.

We had to sing whatever our audition song was and do a dance routine.

We were taught a dance routine, had to do that, and meet Harold Prince to speak to.

He was the director.

And I was the last to go on.

And I can remember when they went, I checked what time it was they went on, just to see how long they were given.

And they both had, I don't know, about 20 minutes, something like that, 25 minutes.

And then it was my turn and I went on.

And I sang yesterday this time.

They didn't want all the others, so yesterday...

And I did it as a three-act play about lost love.

Yesterday it was this and now it's that.

And then I did the dance routine and then Hal Prince came down to speak to me.

And that was that.

And we left.

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