Anne Rogers

b. 29 July 1933, Liverpool, Lancashire, Britain. After studying episode, singing and dance, Rogers played several small roles prior to making her discovery in 1954 when she took the part of Polly in the initial West End creation of Sandy Wilson’s interesting spoof of 30s musicals, The Boy Friend (1954). A last-minute solid switch brought Rogers in at 48 hours see, and it had been therefore she who launched to British viewers both the name tune and ‘I COULD POSSIBLY BE PLEASED WITH You’. Later within the 10 years, she toured America as Eliza Doolittle in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s My Good Lady (1957), that she received the Sarah Siddons Honor. In 1960, Rogers was back the Western End using the London creation of My Good Lady, reverse Alec Clunes. From your 60s to the 90s, Rogers was mixed up in UK and specifically in america, showing up in musicals and right drama within the theatre and in addition on tv. Among her function in this era, generally in leading functions, were looks on stage in the Western End’s She Loves Me (1964), an American tour of HALF OF A Sixpence (1966), the Broadway creation Walking Content (1966), London’s I REALLY DO! I REALLY DO! (1966), a 1976 revival of No, No, Nanette, and American trips of Camelot and 42nd Road. She performed Blanche Du Bois inside a Streetcar Called Desire. On tv she has used roles as assorted as playing reverse Charlton Heston in Elizabeth And Essex, within the 80s daytime cleaning soap Capitol, and Beverly Hillsides, 90210. She’s performed in cabaret in observed London resorts; her one-woman display, Something To Sing About, was extremely effective; and her saving of The Audio Of Music was a big vendor. In 1998 she is at a revival of Gigi staged with the Theatre BENEATH THE Superstars in Houston, Tx. In London in 2001 Rogers performed the central function in Over My Make, a play about 30s musical humor superstar Jessie Matthews. In 2005 Rogers was established to play Billy’s Grandma in Elton John’s Billy Elliot: The Musical in the Western world End, but disagreeable pre-opening adjustments to her function triggered her to regretfully bow out.