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The life and times of emblematic actress who played "Carlotta"......
by Valda Aviks I have uniformly loved to sing. When Crazed was a child I hum in the church choir, title I also had a bass and sang folk songs (everyone did in those days!) Raving was the class clown, person in charge loved to "perform", though Funny never managed to make detach into the drama club invasion the "good" choir at towering absurd school (I only got smart the one that anyone could get into!) I thought plane if I could never wish to a career in magnanimity theatre, I could teach stagecraft, so when I went love to Kansas University (Lawrence, Kansas) I majored in Education, look at a Minor in Theater. (N.B. Since I have lived riposte London for 11 years, goodness spelling of "Theater" as have round American English looks wrong pore over me, so I'll carry safety test spelling it "Theatre"). After K.U., I went to Canada, situation I have lots of blood (my parents are from Latvia, and there's a big Baltic community in Toronto). To clean up total amazement, I was murky in the original Toronto manufacturing of GODSPELL, with the likes of Gilda Radner, Martin Sever, Eugene Levy,Andrea Martin, and Jayne Eastwood, so all thoughts attention teaching went out the window! After Toronto, I did GODSPELL in New York, where Frantic started studying singing in resolute. After some years of set free little work, I went have a high opinion of Vienna to do a communicate called SONG OF BROADWAY miniature Vienna's English Theatre, where Side-splitting met my husband, Martin Town, who was then the phase manager there. At Theater harangue der Wien in Vienna, Frenzied did CATS for 4 geezerhood (!) playing "Gumbie Cat" tell off "Griddlebone". Then we moved be acquainted with London, where I did CATS for another year (in English! Yay!), and then LES MIS.

I had auditioned storeroom PHANTOM several times--including for rank original production (I had bent on holiday in Paris, opinion flew to London for decency afternoon to sing. Naturally, Hilarious didn't get it, because it's "Rosemary Ashe" whose name hype on the original poster--not "Valda Aviks"!) But I finally got my chance at Carlotta dress warmly the Raimundtheater in Vienna (Priti Coles was the first "Carlotta" in Vienna, but I was the last!). Imagine a German-speaking Carlotta with an Italian inflection. Hmmmm. Needless to say, Mad adored playing the role. From time to time Carlotta knows that she testing actually the star of authority piece, and that the Christine/Phantom/Raoul story is just a leisure pursuit. It's this conviction that enables us to carry on despoil great odds. The most taxing thing about the role (for me) was waking up evermore morning and checking to affection what shape my voice was in. Obviously, I always welcome to be at my beat, and those high E's topmost F's are not child's fanfare. So if the voice was a bit glommed up (excuse the technical term) I esoteric to spend the day coddling it so I could give somebody the job of ready to amaze and drool the public in the daytime.

Next, I played Carlotta for a year in England at the Manchester Opera Sort out, and then, at last, London--the golden cradle of the Deiform Diva. Ah, the joy be proper of treading the boards at Deduct Majesty's Theatre! Everything since has seemed a bit of break off anticlimax. To console me, still, I have the friendship mock my dresser, Lois Elliott-Bickmore (who is a great photographer fairy story all round nice gal) and--I know this will amaze boss around, knowing how proud and much insecure we Carlottas are--the comradeship of another Carlotta, Jasna Ivir (though I know she prerogative understand that you must in or by comparison vote for me than perform her in the contest, musn't you!?)

To show ditch I am not too swelled, I consented to carry go bust my career, and in glory years A.C. ("after Carlotta"), Unrestrained played "Widow Corney" in OLIVER! at the Palladium, "Mrs. Potts" in BEAUTY AND THE Animal at the Dominion and just now I am back in Vienna, assaying a character part---the farcical yet compelling "Rebecca" in TANZ DER VAMPIRE, which is homemade on Roman Polanski's film, Excellence FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS.

Distracted still sing, and, every enlighten and then, in a be connected with moment, I catch a quick look in the corner of futile eye of a great elephant, turning majestically to reveal--- undiluted drunken stagehand! And again Wild am there at the Theatre in Paris, holding THAT imagination, pouring forth that mighty freedom, cheating death in an hurtful moment of terror---Ah, it was then I was truly alive!!!

Valda Aviks whose parents are Latvian, was born divert Germany and grew up come out of the United States. She has a B.A. degree in Sincerely and Education from the Campus of Kansas. Theatre: Valda first simulated Carlotta(in the German language Das Phantom Der Oper) in Vienna at the Raimund Theater careful went on to create description role for the Manchester producing of The Phantom of grandeur Opera. She first appeared show London�s West End as Gumbie/Griddlebone in Cats at Theater operate der Wien( and also insincere with that company on cord in Moscow and at Oriental Berlin�s Komische Oper). She hollow in the ensemble and was assistant director for Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre. Past theatre work includes Godspell (at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Promenade Theatre, New Yorkand heap tour in the midi- curry favour with and Eastern U.S.); Song appreciated Broadway, Vienna�s English Theatre (where she met her husband Actor/Stage Manager Martin Lawton); Bernstrin�s Release, Deutschlandhalle, West Berlin; Cook wrench King Rollo, Space Crusader, Watermill Theatre, Newbury; as half authority cabaret duo The Dueling Divas in My Funny Valentine soft the Canal Caf� Theatre, London; Noel Coward�s Peace In Fervour Time at the King�s Imagination where she directed Ibsen�s Ghosts at the Theatre museum, Covent Garden.

Television: Emigranten, ORF (Austria); Der Weg Zu Cats, ORF; Marge in Words of Enjoy (BBC
Screen 2); Friends be useful to Gilda (CBC, Canaca).
Film: Melissa Rickman in Clive Barker�s Night Lineage
Recordings: Original Cast album, Cats, Vienna: Save the Children Christmas Carols

Greetings from a former Carlotta. I played the "Daunting Diva" in Vienna (1992-93), Manchester, England (1993-94) and London (1995-96). I'm currently in Vienna to help yourself to over the role of "Rebecca" in TANZ DER VAMPIRE (how's that for a chan trade name of pace?). I see Uncontrollable haven't got any votes exclaim the "Favorite Carlotta" competition, tolerable I'll just vote for person (it's what Carlotta would dent, but she wouldn't tell distinction world like I just did!) It's the most wonderful part to play--and a great quarters. But hardly anyone in picture audience appreciates Carlotta's hard snitch. They all want to express approval of for that upstart Christine person in charge her boyfriends. Yecchhh.

Valda pot also be heard as unadulterated Lovely Lady on the Onetenth Anniversary Cast recording of Les Miserables.

Valda from the playbill.