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It is 1968 and a 20-year-old Elaine Paige is running naked across the lawn of a luxury hotel in Denmark. She is joined in her night-time sprint by some of her fellow cast members from the original West End production of Hair, which has just opened to great acclaim."It was a ludicrous thing to do," she recalls, "but we were all a bit stoned or had had too much to drink. People always say that if you remember the Sixties, you weren't there. But I was there and I do remember it, and it was great," she laughs. "It was wild and rebellious, and there was drink and drugs. I did the lot, darling! Absolutely everything."Getting drunk, abusing illegal substances and appearing naked in public are not things one normally associates with the First Lady of British musicals. "You didn't have to go nude," she says of her stint in Hair. "You have to remember I am from a suburban north London background, and it was a bit of a leap for me. I did it because I was being ribbed by the rest of the cast for being pathetic and wimpish. It was terrifying. And then I did it, and wondered what all the fuss was about."Dressed down in jeans and heels, Paige, now 60, recalled her moment of madness while researching her new memoirs, written to mark the 40th anniversary of her West End debut. "I can't believe it has been 40 years – it's gone in the blink of an eye. I see young kids coming through in musical theatre now and I suddenly realise, 'Yep, I have been around for a little while.Her CV reads like a history of the post-war musical. She was the first to play the iconic roles of Eva Peron in Evita, Grizabella in Cats and Florence in Chess. Her signature tunes include Don't Cry For Me, Argentina, Memory and I Know Him So Well, her chart-topping duet with Barbara Dickson. Lord Lloyd-Webber regards her recording of As If We Never Said Goodbye from Sunset Boulevard, in which she played the fading Hollywood starlet Norma Desmond, as probably the best performance of any one of his songs.Despite such triumphs, Paige insists she went into acting precisely because she lacked confidence. It was her father who convinced her to go to stage school after she performed in a production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. "What I loved about acting is that I could disappear and be someone else. I didn't have to be me. I was never very confident as Elaine."Before landing the lead role in the original Evita in 1978, Paige was on the verge of quitting. "I was fed up with the whole thing," she admits. "I couldn't get the parts I wanted. I couldn't afford new clothes, I had holes in my boots, I couldn't go out to eat. I was coming up to 29 and thought I wasn't good enough. Evita saved me."Overnight she became a household name, and followed up her success with lead roles in Cats and Chess. But by the 1990s she was no longer being offered roles she could make her own – so she joined existing shows, such as Piaf and Sunset Boulevard, to equal acclaim. It was during Sunset that Paige was diagnosed with breast cancer."I knew there was something wrong for nine months, but was being told that everything was OK. It was only when I eventually put my foot down and said I wanted a second test that it was discovered I had breast cancer."Despite having an operation and radiotherapy, she refused to reveal her condition. She also did not miss a show. "I kept going and gave my most marvellous performances because you suddenly realise how vital life is. If it hadn't been slow-growing, I wouldn't be here now."The demands of Paige's career have meant she has never married. "Yes, I regret in a way not having my own family, not having kids. I never imagined I wouldn't have a family. But I wouldn't have had this career if I had done that.

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