[recommend]Elaine Paige

cybercarUID: 141619

Born Elaine Bickerstaff in the spring of 1951, Elaine Paige would go on to be one of the most recognizable names in theater. She attended the Aida Foster Drama School as she was growing up, preparing her lovely singing voice for musical theater. In the early '70s, she started acting in various London productions, getting small roles in Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar, and finally landing the lead in Grease (opposite an unknown Richard Gere). She eventually quit musical theater to try her hand at television. Her role on the soap Crossroads was hardly memorable, so when she had the chance to star in Andrew Lloyd Weber's Evita she jumped at the opportunity. It was a huge smash, leading to many awards and a 20-month run as the lead character. She left to try and start a pop career, but her first effort, Sitting Pretty, hardly made a dent on the pop charts. Still, her theater success landed her another high profile role in Weber's Cats and a concert hall performance at Royal Festival Hall, both enormous successes. Her eponymous sophomore album was mildly more successful than the last, but it was a series of albums released in the middle of the '80s that brought her the most success. Stages, Cinema, and Love Hurts were all popular efforts that made the Top Ten in the U.K., and her efforts in Tim Rice's Chess led to a hit single, "I Know Him So Well."
Her release schedule only became more frantic as the years went by, she put out albums almost yearly and performed in several huge productions for the British stage including Piaf, Anything Goes, and Sunset Boulevard. When Sunset Boulevard came to New York in 1996, it was her first time on Broadway. She was met with much critical admiration, and brought her considerable talents to a television special for the BBC called A South Bank Show. The special showed her visiting different parts of the world where her plays had been set, and performing songs there in character. It was soon after this that she was showered with awards from critic collectives, theatrical organizations, and even the Queen of England for her years of service to the British theater. She spent the second half of the '90s performing at many tribute and benefit concerts, as well as her first major non-singing role on the stage, The Misanthrope. Her recording schedule slowed down considerably after 1998. In 2000, she started on a successful run of the King and I and began work on a second duet album with Barbara Dickson.





Stages
Artist  Elaine Paige
Album Title  Stages
Date of Release  1983 (release)
Genre  Soundtrack
Styles  Show Tunes, Cast Recordings, Traditional Pop
Type  soundtrack


    1.   Memory {From Cats} (Eliot/Lloyd Webber/Nunn) - 4:14
    2.   Be on Your Own {from the Musical 'Nine'} (Yeston) - 2:42
    3.   Another Suitcase in Another Hall {from the (Rice/Webber) - 3:27
    4.   Send in the Clowns {from the Musical 'A... (Sondheim) - 4:08
    5.   Running Back for More {from the Musical... (Oliver/Rice) - 3:17
    6.   Good Morning Starshine {from the Musical... (MacDermot/Rado/Ragni) - 3:01
    7.   Don't Cry for Me Argentina {from the... (Rice/Webber) - 5:50
    8.   Don't Know How to Love Him {from the... (Rice/Webber) - 3:55
    9.   What I Did for Love {from the Musical 'A... (Hamlisch/Kleban) - 3:31
    10.   One Night Only {from the Musical 'Dream... (Eyen/Krieger) - 3:11
    11.   Losing My Mind {from the Musical... (Sondheim) - 3:39
    12.   Tomorrow (Charnin/Strause) - 2:42

太空猫猫UID: 142143

她名字
偶太熟悉，就是少听她的歌，
:confused:

cybercarUID: 141619

oh, upstair , I think, at least , you heard Memory and Don't Cry for Me Argentina
and other songs are very attractive:D

I have this CD, my favorite:D

7411UID: 132870

Don't Cry for Me Argentina ????

i think it was also  sang by Madonna( maybe i mistype the name of the famous star)??

really? i also downed this song in my pc. it is an opera and it was adapted to the film. The herion is also Madonna.

The story is about the history of Argentina building. i posted the song before, it is very impressing song.

After listen it ,maybe you will change some of your views about the star.

cybercarUID: 141619

In1975 Lloyd Webber formed with Evita, an approximate musical biography of Eva Peron, self-styled ‘political leader’ of Argentina.

Evita Peron :      
1、Elaine Paige ,Prince Edward Theatre in London , from 1976
2、Patti LuPone ， Broadway Theatre in New York， from 1979
3、Madonna， Movie of Evita , 1996


more information about Evita
http://www.musical-cat.com/world/evita/

太空猫猫UID: 142143

haha
i have heared this long long ago

perhaps that's my favorite too.....:D

i love the story and the songs , they are so moving
well. my poor enlish ,can't express how i feel about them
sigh~~~~~~~

danahUID: 144289

Yep..
She is famous for Memory which is well presented by her.
I like her so much..

checheUID: 170753

I love it ,too , thanks