{"id":8860,"date":"2020-10-09T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2021-05-14T02:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T02:07:26","slug":"leading-ladies-of-the-west-end-interview-for-performers-stuff-pro-series-part-1-maintaining-8-shows-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/performerstuff.com\/mgs\/leading-ladies-of-the-west-end-interview-for-performers-stuff-pro-series-part-1-maintaining-8-shows-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Ladies of the West End Interview For Performers Stuff Pro Series: Part 1 Maintaining 8 Shows a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading Ladies of the West End Interview For Performers Stuff Pro Series: Part 1 Maintaining 8 Shows a Week<\/strong><\/h3>\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>

Written by:\u00a0Mark Pawsey<\/p>\n

October 8, 2020<\/p>\n<\/font>

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Performer Stuff Pro Series host, Mark Pawsey catches up with 3 of London\u2019s West End Leading Ladies, Kim Criswell, Sophie Louise Dann, and Janie Dee as they share up close and personal, their first-hand knowledge and experience of what it takes to maintain 8 shows a week.<\/p>\n

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KIM CRISWELL
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Kim is a native American musical entertainer, actress, and EMI solo recording artist who has performed with most of the leading Symphony Orchestras of the World. She came to London as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun <\/em>for which she received an Olivier Award Nomination. On Broadway, she appeared in the original casts of Baby<\/em> & Nine<\/em> and starred opposite Sting in The Threepenny Opera.<\/em> She played Grizabella in the first LA production of CATS<\/em> & won the Helen Hayes Award for Side By Side By Sondheim in Washington.<\/p>\n

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SOPHIE-LOUISE DANN
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Sophie-Louise is a British actress, who recently completed the UK tour of Les Mis\u00e9rables playing Madame Thenardier. In the West End, she was nominated for Olivier Awards on 2 occasions, for\u00a0Lend Me a Tenor<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Girls, <\/em>the latter of which was written by Take That<\/em> star Gary Barlow. A protagonist for new works and writings, Sophie-Louise also created leading roles in the new musicals\u00a0Bend it Like Beckham & Made in Dagenham<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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JANIE DEE
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Janie is an English actress and singer. She won the Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics Circle Theatre, Obie, and Theatre World Awards for her role in Alan Ayckbourn\u2019s\u00a0Comic Potential<\/em> both in London and New York. She also won an Olivier Award for her performance as Carrie Pipperidge in\u00a0Carousel<\/em>. Most recently she was nominated for an Olivier Award playing Phyllis\u00a0<\/em>in the Royal National Theatre’s acclaimed\u00a0Follies<\/em> opposite Imelda Staunton.<\/p>\n

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WATCH:<\/span> Leading Ladies of the West End Interview: Part 1 Maintaining 8 Shows a Week<\/strong><\/h4>\n