Elaine Paige Celebrates 40 Years of Musical Theatre with UK Concert Tour

To mark 40 years since her West End debut Elaine Paige, the UK's ‘First Lady of Musical Theatre', will embark on a concert tour of the UK in February and March 2009. She will perform some of her best known and most loved musical memories alongside an orchestra visiting 14 cities along the way.

Since making her West End debut in Hair in 1968, Elaine Paige has gone on to become a household name and International star. She has brought to life some of the greatest female roles in musical theatre history, released 21 gold and platinum selling albums, and performed around the world for royalty and world leaders. In 2008 Oberon Books released Memories, in which Elaine Paige tells the story in words and archive pictures of her 40 years in the industry. With a foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber the book tells of her many famous collaborators and leading men, among them Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of Abba, Michael Crawford and Cameron Mackintosh.

Winning the Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Performance of the Year in a Musical' after creating the role of Eva Peron in the original production of Evita, Elaine has played all of the great female roles in productions of Grease, The Boyfriend, The King And I, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Chess winning major awards along the way.

Elaine continues to work at a furious pace. In 2008 she has performed dates in Europe, China and the USA all the while entertaining over 2 million listeners every Sunday with her own BBC Radio 2 show.

This up-coming concert tour is a chance to join the acclaimed theatrical legend as she takes her audience on an incredible journey through the last 40 years of one of the most renowned musical theatre careers of all time.

A live recording of the concert will be available on CD from tour venues.

Visit www.elainepaige.com for more info

TOUR DATES

BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall
15th & 16th February 2009
Box Office: 0121 780 3333
www.thsh.co.uk

GLASGOW Royal Concert Hall
19th February 2009
Box Office: 0141 353 8000
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

PERTH Concert Hall
20th February 2009
Box Office: 01738 621 031
www.horsecross.co.uk

NEWCASTLE Theatre Royal
23rd & 24th February 2009
Box Office: 08448 112121
www.theatreroyal.co.uk

NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate
26th & 27th February 2009
Box Office: 01604 624811
www.royalandderngate.co.uk

SALFORD The Lowry
1st & 2nd March 2009
Box Office: 0870 1112 000
www.thelowry.com

CARDIFF St David's Hall
4th March 2009
Box Office: 02920 878444
www.stdavidshall.cardiff.co.uk

TORQUAY Princess Theatre
5th March 2009
Box Office: 0844 8472315
www.princesstheatre.org.uk

LONDON Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
8th March 2009
Box Office: 0844 4124657
www.seetickets.com

SOUTHEND Cliffs Pavilion
9th March 2009
Box Office: 01702 351135
www.thecliffspavilion.co.uk

IPSWICH Regent
11th March 2009
Box Office: 01473 433100
www.ipswichregent.com

CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
12th March 2009
Box Office: 01223 357851
www.cornex.co.uk

LEEDS Grand Theatre
15th March 2009
Box Office: 0844 848 2701/2
www.leedsgrandtheatre.com

EASTBOURNE The Congress Theatre
16th March 2009
Box Office: 01323 412000
www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk