Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Actress and singer.
On the island
Eight records
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Sviatoslav Richter, Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
it's the last part, because it's the last part that I really like.
Una voce poco fa (from The Barber of Seville)
I love her singing anyway. I think she's quite an amazing colotura and um I like to sing along with her. Not very well, I might add, but uh I do enjoy it, and I think if I was on the island there were times when I'd feel like singing.
I chose this because I think every little girl have always wanted to dance the swan. It's one of those things. And I know I used to do this all the time when I was a little girl, dance to this. And I think for me it's all the ballet music that I would want, you know.
I just love it. I just think it's great. I love gospel singing anyway and um I think it's a very happy record and I think that would make me feel good.
I've just always loved this record. I just love the the way it changes. And um it's just a great record, I think.
I think is such a great produced record anyway and um it means a lot to me, this record.
just'cause I like it. I've always liked David Bowie, and it was difficult to choose one track.
The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-SeaFavourite
it always makes me laugh. They all make me laugh most of the time, but this one there's just something silly about this
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:27Was there any theatrical or musical talent in your family?
my father played the violin and my mother played the piano and sang a bit. And um that's all. I mean no one connected with the theatre in any way.
Presenter asks
3:07Whose decision was it that you should go to a stage school?
My mother my mother wanted to put me to stage school because um … she thought that I should go to stage school as I was always having classes for dancing, and if I went to a stage school course I would have that as well as my education. And so she arranged for us to have an interview with misses Foster at the Addie Foster School.
Presenter asks
4:02Was it your ambition to sing opera?
Oh, no, I mean I j I just that I had that sort of voice. And so, um, at school they gave me songs like that to sing and I sung them'cause I quite enjoyed singing them. … I didn't want to be an opera singer now. I mean, I don't think I'd ever study hard enough to be that.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Because um I feel that uh one thing that would annoy me is if I was searching for a word or something and I couldn't find it. So if I have a dictionary I can look them up. Plus I like crossword puzzles. Maybe I'll start devising crossword puzzles or something or just writing, if I can find any writing material there.
The luxury
It will be slightly practical, actually. I don't know if it sneaks in. That's a piano. Yes,'cause then I could pick out maybe all the tunes that I haven't got, so I could only have eight.
How did you get the role of Evita?
From it I think I got Evita. In this series I I met someone called Angela Richards … She suggested me to a friend of hers, Gary Bond, who was then playing Shea Guevara in Evita, to take over from Elaine. And then he in turn suggested me to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hal Prince. From that I got an audition and they decided to put me in as Elaine's replacement.
Presenter asks
22:48Could you look after yourself on a desert island?
I'd have to, really. I've got no choice. … I think it's survival, isn't it? I mean, if you're going to have to do something, you're going to do it. You're not going to sit there and either freeze to death or boil in the sun. I mean, you're going to do something about it.
“I think I'd have to cope. I think I would cope because I mean there's nothing much else to do. I mean you can't sit around feeling sorry for yourself for very long.”
“I wanted to be a dancer, but of course naturally I at a school like Ada Foster's they make you do everything that You know, they think you can do well, so I could sing, so I sang.”
“I never try and think of that, because I might be disappointed. I like just to see what happens, see which way the wind blows me, really.”