Will Elaine Duet With Susan?
Playbill.com reports: ‘Cameron Mackintosh was “gob-smacked” by her performance, two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone was moved to tears, and now “Britain’s Got Talent” contestant Susan Boyle has another theatre artist in her corner: her idol Elaine Paige. On her weekly BBC Radio 2 program Paige — who created leading roles in Evita, Cats, and Chess on the West End stage — told her audience, “It seems [Susan Boyle’s] performance has really captured the hearts of everyone who saw it, me included. . . . Ever since Susan’s appearance on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ my inbox has been flooded with e-mails. Perhaps we should record a duet?”‘
