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Last broadcast on Sun, 3 May 2009, 13:00 on BBC Radio 2.
Synopsis
Elaine Paige presents two full hours of great showtunes and Hollywood music. And this week, EP is joined by actress Sian Phillips, who is starring in the hit stage version of 'Calendar Girls'. As well as Siân's favourite Essential Musicals, there's the competition, your break-a-leg messages and requests. Plus, 'Malcolm's Big One' comes from the 1945 Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Carousel'.
EP with Sian Phillips
Elaine chats to Sian about her career and her latest play 'Calendar Girls'. Plus, Sian's Essential Musicals are:
• House of Flowers
• Pal Joey
• The Music Man
• Candide
• The Student Prince
EP and Aneurin Barnard
Aneurin Barnard, the star of the new West End musical 'Spring Awakening', stops by to discuss the show. Aneurin also performs the song 'Left Behind' in the studio
Tracklist
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Judy Garland — The Trolley SongEMI -
Astrud Gilberto — Fly Me to The MoonReprise/WMG Soundtracks -
Catherine Zeta-Jones & Renée Zellweger — I Move On
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Burl Ives — Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly)
Walt Disney Records -
Mary Stuart Masterson — Be On Your Own
PS CLASSICS -
Bea Arthur — Bosom Buddies
Mame - Original Broadway Cast -
Bea Arthur — Fifty Per Cent
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City Of Prague Philharmonic — Impossible Opening (Finding Neverland)
THE BEST CINEMA CLASSICS...EVER! -
Aneurin Barnard — Left Behind
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Company — One Day More (Les Miserables)
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Juliet Prowse — If My Friends could see me now
Sony -
Sarah Brightman & Steve Harley — The Phantom Of The Opera
POLYDOR -
Olivia Newton-John — Part of Your WorldWalt Disney Records -
The Temptations — The Way You Do the Things You DoHollywood Records -
Marlene Dietrich — Where Have All The Flowers Gone
EMI -
Pearl Bailey — One Man Ain't Quite enough
Columbia Masterworks -
Harold Lang — Do It The Hard Way
Columbia -
Robert Preston — Ya Got Trouble
ANGEL -
Barbara Cook — Glitter and Be Gay
Columbia Broadway -
Marilyn Hill Smith — Come Boys, Let's All Be Gay Boys
Ter Classics -
Meg Johnson & Company — June Is Bustin' Out All Over
FIRST NIGHT
Broadcast
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Sun 3 May 200913:00
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