Elaine Paige News

[gstrus2]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:31pm

Anyone know what she is teasing about?
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[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:33pm

She's been cast as Baby June in Streisand Gypsy.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:36pm

How about one of the leads in that toe tappin never made it to Broadway musical version of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane"?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:36pm

sayyy whaaat?? damn they are casting them all old as hell!!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:42pm

She broke into Emma Thompson's house, wrestled her to the ground and threatened, "If you don't withdraw from Sweeney Todd immediately, I'm going to sit on the front row and sing your part half a beat ahead of you." So Elaine is announcing that she will be taking over for Thompson in future Sweeney concerts. And apparently Sondheim is okay with this.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:46pm

Elaine is announcing that she has been cast as an aging diva on Midsomer Murders. Guess who the murderer will end up being? (It's always the star).

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:47pm

oh i thought u were being serious

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:49pm

"oh i thought u were being serious"

Seriously I think she's going to announce that her Andrew Lloyd-Webber cabaret act will be filmed (for tv or movies, I don't know which).

But it's much more fun to speculate until the truth comes out.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:51pm

She's announcing that she will be hiding under Kelli O'Hara's dress during The King & I and hitting the high notes that O'Hara doesn't feel like hitting on matinee days.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:53pm

Or that while hiding under there, she will prod or otherwise goose O'Hara to insure she will hit those high notes.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:55pm

She's announcing that her good friend Susan Boyle got her a gig on Britain's Got Talent.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 12:59pm

She's announcing that she has been cast as Dorothy in NBC Live's The Wiz. It is reported that Lilla Crawford has taken to her bed and is unconsolable.

Updated On: 1/22/15 at 12:59 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 1:01pm

She's announcing that she got a juicy role in next season's Glee.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 1:04pm

The West End is doing a new version of the musical Charlie And The Chocolate Facotry and Elaine is announcing that she will play both Veruca Salt and an Oompa-Loompa.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:01pm

"She's been cast as Baby June in Streisand Gypsy."

Goth... That is way too good.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:03pm

Maybe she can star as Dale Evans in the Roy Rogers musical mentioned in the headline section

What next? Gunsmoke The Musical

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:22pm

She's going to reprise her performance of Grisabella in Cats 2

[philly03]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:39pm

If its a Lloyd Webber thing maybe she's going to star in a reimagined revival of Starlight Express!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:41pm

Her next show will be "Night of Elaines" where she pays tribute to Elaine May, Elaine Stritch, Elaine Joyce, Elaine Kaufman, Elayne Boosler and Lainie Kazan.

Take that Bette Midler with your impersonation of one woman. Paige is playing six!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:46pm

"If its a Lloyd Webber thing maybe she's going to star in a reimagined revival of Starlight Express!"

The entire story will take place in her mind while she is riding on The Polar Express. The entire production will be computer generated so that Elaine can do the performance on Broadway while she's lying on the beach in Blackpool.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:54pm

Goth, she will be rollerblading around a rink as she daydreams of all the people around her as the characters in Starlight. With the big 80s hairdo and foggy lighting, she's got a few soft-rock ballads to sing as the real action gets set up by the moving projectors.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:57pm

Elaine will be portraying Judi Dench from the time period that Dame Judi first accepted the part of Grizabella in the new musical Cats until the night that Judi started to ascend the Heavyside Layer ladder only to find out too late that some vindictive cow had greased the rungs. Betty Buckley has agreed to play Elaine Paige, the actress who quickly assumed the role of Grizabella and chief suspect in the greasing matter. David Tenant will play Paige's boyfriend Tim Rice, who was spurned as the lyricist for Cats and went on to write the Pippin rip-off Blondel.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 5:00pm

"Goth, she will be rollerblading around a rink as she daydreams of all the people around her as the characters in Starlight."

In this production, Paige will sit in a chair on stage while the audience rides around in a roller coaster for the entire performance.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 5:15pm

Elaine is announcing that she will be reuniting with Barbara Dickson to do a Chess sequel. The show is called "Svet and Flo" and takes place in a post-Reagan Russia. Realizing that both women have been thrown over by the same Russian lover, the girls decide to make their story into a cabaret act and take it on the road. Some of the songs include "All That Vodka" "Apartment Bloc Tango" "They Both Reached For The Putin" and "Hot Pierogi Rag."

Updated On: 1/22/15 at 05:15 PM

[gypsy101]

Posted: 1/22/15 at 5:22pm

Gothampc. You made me laugh out loud like 7 times. Great job.