The Thrill Of Being In Front Of

I Am Told That The First Comprehensible Word I Uttered As A Child Was 'home.

Well It's All Right To Cry. It Helps A Great Deal Sometimes.

I Was Raised Never To Carp About Things And Never To Moan, Because In Vaudeville, Which Is My Background, You Just Got On With It Through All Kinds Of Adversities.

My Life Has Been So Fortunate. I Have Had Most Extraordinary Good Fortune In My Life. I Sort Of Put It Into Three Categories, The Three Major Stepping Stones. One Being London Hippodrome Theater Stage Debut When I Was 12, When It Started My Career. The Second Being Going To Broadway. And The Third Going To Hollywood. Each One Of Those Happened Under The Most Extraordinary Circumstances.

I Was Fortunate Enough To Work At The Peak Of The Great Golden Age Of Musicals. And Then For Awhile, I Think They Were Being Advanced In Different Ways. Andrew Lloyd-webber Brought The Rock Beat To Musicals; People Tried Different Things. The Joy Of Musicals Is That There Is No Perfect Recipe; It Is What You Throw Into It.