March 3rd, 2010
Orjs Elaine Paige Responds- Compliments Boyle and
I am a huge supporter of Susan Boyle and admire what she has achieved,ugg sale; she has handled the extraordinary situation of being catapulted to worldwide stardom with tremendous strength, charm and dignity and I thoroughly enjoyed working with her on the ITV special we recorded together only last month.
Paige then elaborated on her statement in the Daily Mail, claiming that “she is a girl with no experience of anything to do with theatrics, the music business, or art in any way” and that she doesn’t “particularly feel any pride for her – I’m sure she is proud of what she has done.”
Paige returned to the West End stage in 2007 to critical acclaim in the title role of “The Drowsy Chaperone” at the Novello Theatre, London for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her performance in What’s On Stage Awards, London. As well as performing in Europe and in the USA in concert she has recently recorded a track with ‘Secret Garden’, ‘The Things You Are You To Me’ for their new number one quadruple-platinum selling album.
Elaine Paige has starred in numerous West End productions and on Broadway and in concert internationally,Cheap North Face Shoes, sweeping to fame when she created her award winning performance as Eva Peron in EVITA. Shortly afterwards she created the role of Grizabella in the original production of CATS and the classic song Memory became one of Elaine’s many hit records. Further theatre productions: HAIR, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, GREASE,The North Face Sale, BILLY, CHESS (with her record breaking number one hit I Know Him So Well with Barbara Dickson), ANYTHING GOES, PIAF, SUNSET BOULEVARD in London and Broadway, THE KING AND I, SWEENEY TODD (New York City Opera). She has worked twice with Sir Peter Hall’s Theatre Company in THE MISANTHROPE and Feydeau’s WHERE THERE’S A WILL.
In the wake of the media storm that has ensued as a result of comments run in the U.K. Daily Mail in which Elaine Paige -famous for her performances in EVITA and CATS in the West End -states that Susan Boyle was a “virus,” Paige has just released the following statement to clarify her comments, which she asserts, were grossly misinterpreted and skewed. The pair had recently sung a duet together for an ITV special.