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All eyes were on Judi Dench .

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lloyd, director of the history-making reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, reveals that his star Nicole Scherzinger initially “refused to consider” accepting his offer to play Norma Desmond in the show adapted from Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic.

Caroline Brew editor Composer Ben Lanzarone, whose work was featured in television shows such as “Happy Days,” “The Love Boat” and “Dynasty,” died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on Feb. 16. He was 85.

Super Bowl were wise to pay tribute to the man who arguably played the biggest role (besides Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel) in making the Sin City what it is today: Frank Sinatra, whose Rat Pack-era residencies defined Vegas in the 1950s, along with his best-known song, “My Way.” The song — which is now among the most-covered songs of all time — already had traveled a long way before it reached Ol’ Blue Eyes in 1968. Since then, it has been performed countless thousands of times, by everyone from Elvis Presley and Nina Simone to Sid Vicious and Miley Cyrus.

EXCLUSIVE: Paradise Square‘s Chilina Kennedy, Ryan Silverman (The Phantom of the Opera), Justin Matthew Sargent (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) and Ain’t No Mo’s Crystal Lucas-Perry have been cast in the upcoming Off Broadway musical A Sign of the Times featuring the songs of Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield and other ’60s hitmakers.

A Sign of the Times, a new musical featuring the songs of Petula Clark, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield and other classic pop hits of the 1960s will have its New York City premiere Off Broadway at New World Stages this winter, with previews starting February 7, 2024, in advance of an opening night on Thursday, February 22.

People dancing in the street to pop-up music festivals; lessons in woodcraft, and artists visiting schools to share their ideas and talent. This is what Salford can expect after the city won a £750,000 grant.

LONDON -- Judi Dench was given a standing ovation for “Send in The Clowns.” Bernadette Peters bent over with her back to the audience and with her head between her legs blasted her trumpet to “You Gotta Get A Gimmick.”Petula Clark, 89, belted out “I’m Still Here.” And Imelda Staunton set off a huge ovation with “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”What the four had in common was devotion to Stephen Sondheim, the groundbreaking Broadway composer/lyricist who died in November at age 91. Dozens of stars of musical theater gathered Tuesday night for a celebration titled “Old Friends” to raise money for the Stephen Sondheim Foundation, which will benefit young composers.“He always considered London his second home,” producer Cameron Mackintosh, who organized the event, told the sellout crowd of about 1,100 at a theater renamed the Sondheim from the Queen’s in 2019.

We’ve all seen our great share of streaming while in isolation during Covid, but nothing was a better reminder of the power of the big screen than the Edgar Wright-directed, produced and co-penned fantasy-horror-romance Last Night in Soho, from its visceral re-creation of the 1960s London to Anya Taylor-Joy’s sublime crooning of Petula Clark.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s new movie has her putting a very slow spin on a classic.

Christmas morning.“I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement — was me — singing ‘Downtown'! Of all the thousands of songs — why this one?” Clark wrote on a Facebook post Tuesday.Clark said she loved Nashville and wished she could give everyone in the city a hug.The explosion took place in the heart of Nashville’s historic downtown. The blast killed the bomber, injured several people and damaged dozens of buildings.

I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love…Posted by Petula Clark on Tuesday, December 29, 2020Clark added that “millions of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song.”The singer cited the opening line of the 1964 hit tunebefore adding: “Perhaps you can read something else into these words – depending on your state of mind.

British signer Petula Clark has expressed dismay and disappointment after her song “Downtown” could be heard playing from the suspected Nashville bomber’s explosives-filled vehicle moments before the tragic incident on Friday.

Chris Willman Music WriterSinger Petula Clark has issued a statement conveying her dismay at her 1960s classic “Downtown” being blared from an explosives-laden recreational vehicle before it blew up in downtown Nashville Friday morning.“I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love Nashville and its people,” wrote Clark on Facebook.

Petula Clark is responding after her 1964 record "Downtown" was used during the "intentional" explosion in Nashville, Tenn., on Christmas Day, which left a number of businesses destroyed and injured three people in its wake on Second Avenue.  In a statement to Fox News on Tuesday, Clark, 88, said she is in "shock and disbelief" at the despair seen across the world on Dec. 25.

Petula Clark is thinking of Nashville following the Christmas Day bombing.

The RV that exploded on Christmas morning, and shook the city of Nashville, was playing Petula Clark’s classic pop song “Downtown” shortly before the blast. Officer James Luellen, who was among the six cops that evacuated civilians from the area, confirmed he heard the hit 1965 song before the explosion. “The music started, and I notified over the [police radio] air to notify other officers,” he said at a press conference on December 27.

The RV that exploded on Christmas morning, and shook the city of Nashville, was playing Petula Clark’s classic pop song “Downtown” shortly before the blast. Officer James Luellen, who was among the six cops that evacuated civilians from the area, confirmed he heard the hit 1965 song before the explosion. “The music started, and I notified over the [police radio] air to notify other officers,” he said at a press conference on December 27.

The explosive-laced RV parked in downtown Nashville played a warning message to evacuate, a countdown, and even blared the mid-60s hit song "Downtown" by Petula Clark minutes before it detonated into fiery blast early Christmas Day, injuring at least three civilians.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Nov. 15-21:Nov. 15: Actor Ed Asner is 91.

In 1964, Petula Clark was an international star, famous in Europe but unknown in the U.S. Signed to the Vogue label in France and Pye in the U.K., she recorded a song written by Tony Hatch, and Warner Bros.