Elaine Paige
- 51% match to Michael Crawford
Elaine Bickerstaff, 5 March 1951, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. An actress and singer, often called the first lady of contemporary British musical theatre, Elaine Paige was trained at the Aida Foster Stage School in Golders Green, north London. She had already appeared in several stage musicals in the 60s and 70s, including The Roar Of The Greasepaint-The Smell Of The Crow
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Bernadette Lazzara, 28 February 1948, Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. Often called ‘the finest singing actress since Barbra Streisand’, Bernadette Peters is certainly one of the few leading ladies of the last decade or so whose name on a Broadway marquee can cause box-office queues to form before the show has gone into previews. She was tap-dancin
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Patti LuPone
- 22% match to Michael Crawford
21 April 1949, Northport, Long Island, New York, USA. An actress and singer who left several well-known Hollywood and Broadway stars feeling bitterly disappointed and distraught when she won the role of Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1993 London production of Sunset Boulevard. LuPone made her stage debut, tap dancing, at the age of four, and later took dancing c
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Jim Brickman
- 19% match to Michael Crawford
20 November 1961, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Brickman is a pianist who has surprised many during his increasingly successful career, and the basis for any understanding of him is a recognition of the simplicity of his ideas and execution. His reinstatement of a classic pop sound is at odds with his background in classical music, but his studies of composition and performance were
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Linda Eder
- 19% match to Michael Crawford
6 February 1961, Brainerd, Minnesota, USA. Judging from her recording output, vocalist Eder is equally at home singing ‘contemporary standards’ as she is tackling musical theatre. She was introduced to both classical and popular music at an early age, by her parents who were both singers, but it was not until high school that Eder discovered the singer that would i
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Julie Andrews
- 17% match to Michael Crawford
Julia Elizabeth Wells, 1 October 1935, Walton-On-Thames, Surrey, England. The former Julia Wells changed her surname to Andrews following her mother’s remarriage to song and dance man Ted Andrews. After singing lessons with Madam Lillian Stiles-Allan, which formed her precise vocal style and typically English delivery, Andrews made her professional debut in her parents&
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Company
- 15% match to Michael Crawford
Derek Bailey (29 January 1930, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, d. 25 December 2005, London, England) established the Company week/festival in 1977 and, despite all the odds, several changes of venue and the occasional annual hiccup, the unpredictability of its financial success (or otherwise) it remained going, strong and ever-surprising, into the early 00s. Bailey’s ide
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Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986, Llandaff, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales. Welsh soprano vocalist Charlotte Church made a noteworthy transition from child star to tabloid media icon in the space of a few short years. Raised in Cardiff by her mother and stepfather, Church signed a recording contract with Sony Classical at the age of 12 after being spotted performing a
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Josh Groban
- 12% match to Michael Crawford
Joshua Winslow Groban, 27 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA. First bursting onto the music scene while still a teenager, opera baritone Groban updates the age-old genre with modern music styles such as pop and dance. Groban began singing while in the seventh grade, but despite possessing enormous potential, took a break from music for a couple of years after changi
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