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Elaine Paige on Sunday

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19/07/2009

Duration:
2 hours
First broadcast:
Sunday 19 July 2009

Elaine is joined by actress and singer Liz Robertson who is playing Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray. Liz reveals her favourite Essential Musicals which include: A Little Night Music, Gypsy, Sweet Charity and My Fair Lady. Liz also recalls Dance A Little Closer, the musical written for her by her late husband Alan Jay Lerner.

Music Played

23 items

  • Zeta Jones, Catherine & Renee Zellweger I Move On

  • Image for Broadway Cast

    Broadway Cast Overture - Amour

    Amour, Sh-K-Boom Records

  • Green, Simon With Gillian Bevan, Diana Rigg & Cast Your Gonna Love Tomorrow/ Ah But Underneath

    Follies (London Cast), FIRST NIGHT

  • Image for Louis Armstrong

    Louis Armstrong We Have All The Time In The World

    The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa, EMI

  • Image for Ben Harper

    Ben Harper Strawberry Fields FOrever

    I Am Sam, Virgin

  • Image for Richard Kiley

    Richard Kiley The Impossible Dream

    Man Of La Mancha, MCA

  • Sissaundra Lewis Share a dream Come true

    Walt Disney World Official Album, Buena Vista Records

  • Image for Harry Secombe

    Harry Secombe If I Ruled The World

    Classics 2002, DELFONT MUSIC

  • Daniel Massey She Loves Me

    She Loves Me (Original Broadwat Cast), POLYDOR

  • Les Cagelles We Are What We Are

    And Company, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

  • Image for Henry Mancini

    Henry Mancini Moon River

    Toots Thielemans, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S & ARABESQUE

  • Image for Céline Dion

    Céline Dion My Heart Will Go On

    Back To Titanic, SONY MUSIC

  • Image for Barbara Cook

    Barbara Cook Losing My Mind

  • Image for John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John

    John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John Summer Nights

    Grease The Soundtrack, POLYGRAM

  • Image for Zac Efron

    Zac Efron Right Here, Right Now

    Vanessa Hudgens, High School Musical 3; Senior Year

  • Company Spread The Love Around

    Sister Act The Musical, First Night

  • London Cast of Hairspray You Can't Stop The Beat

  • Image for Len Cariou

    Len Cariou Now

    A Little Night Music, Columbia

  • Orchestra (Unknown) Gypsy Overture

    Gypsy, Atlantic

  • Orchestra (Unknown) Rich Man's Frug

    Sweet Charity, Columbia

  • Tony Britton I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

    My Fair Lady, Music For Pleasure

  • Robertson, Liz & Len Cariou Dance A Little Closer

    Dance A Little Closer (Broadway Cast), THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT

  • Image for The New Seekers

    The New Seekers Circles

    The Greatest Hits, PHILIPS

  • Elaine chats to Liz Robertson

    Elaine chats to Liz Robertson

    Actress Liz Robertson reveals her Essential Musicals to Elaine. They include:
    • A Little Night Music
    • Gypsy
    • Sweet Charity
    • My Fair Lady, and
    • Dance A Little Closer

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