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All a matter of timing for my West End debut, says 42nd Street star Sheena Easton | London Evening Standard
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If they’d asked before, I’d have said ‘no way.’”</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image atom-align-undefined"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><!-- scald=5390901:sdl_editor_representation --><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224231im_/https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/18/14/sheena-easton-0.jpg" width="564" height="846" alt="sheena-easton-0.jpg" title="sheena-easton-0.jpg"/></div><!-- END scald=5390901 --></div><div class="dnd-caption-wrapper">Striking: Sheena Easton in her 80s heyday (Rex Features)</div></div> <p>The For Your Eyes Only singer was approached by the show’s director and co-writer, Mark Bramble, to play Dorothy Brock, a faded prima donna who faces up to talented younger starlet, Peggy Sawyer (Clare Halse). Former Emmerdale actor Tom Lister joins them as director Julian Marsh.</p> <p>“There’s very few productions that I would consider taking a year out of my life to go and do but 42nd Street is iconic.</p> <p>“Dorothy is a great part. She's a fabulous old broad to play, she's a larger than life character.</p> <p>“The fact that we’re both, ‘women of a certain age’ and we’re not teenagers, that’s something I can identify with. But it’s acting, I’m not out there playing Sheena Easton.”</p> <p>Easton will lead an ensemble cast of more than 50 through <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224231/http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/theatre/the-last-five-years-musicals-are-mainly-about-misery-and-pain-but-it-s-all-still-fun-a3398376.html">song-and-dance</a> numbers including We’re In The Money. “I'm just excited to be a part of this experience because we really have committed to making this bigger and brighter and better than they've done it in the past."</p> <div class="dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-gallery"><div class="dnd-atom-rendered"><!-- scald=4979886:sdl_editor_representation --><div class="image"><script> <!--//--><![CDATA[// ><!-- jQuery(document).ready(function(){ if (jQuery(window).width() > 620){ var galleryTitle = jQuery(".container.grid-mod-gallery .gallery-title"); var galleryTitleText = galleryTitle.text(); var galleryTitleLength = galleryTitleText.length; 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