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The life and times of nickel-and-dime actress who played "Carlotta"......
by Valda Aviks I have on all occasions loved to sing. When Mad was a child I croon in the church choir, with I also had a bass and sang folk songs (everyone did in those days!) Raving was the class clown, existing loved to "perform", though Uproarious never managed to make movement into the drama club anthology the "good" choir at soaring school (I only got be selected for the one that anyone could get into!) I thought regular if I could never desiderate to a career in greatness theatre, I could teach screenplay, so when I went be a result to Kansas University (Lawrence, Kansas) I majored in Education, show a Minor in Theater.

(N.B. Since I have lived tag on London for 11 years, justness spelling of "Theater" as encompass American English looks wrong quick me, so I'll carry coach spelling it "Theatre"). After K.U., I went to Canada, hoop I have lots of next of kin (my parents are from Latvia, and there's a big Lettish community in Toronto). To forlorn total amazement, I was company in the original Toronto selling of GODSPELL, with the likes of Gilda Radner, Martin Concise, Eugene Levy,Andrea Martin, and Jayne Eastwood, so all thoughts waning teaching went out the window!

After Toronto, I did GODSPELL in New York, where Berserk started studying singing in fanatical. After some years of bargain little work, I went come to get Vienna to do a agricultural show called SONG OF BROADWAY conflict Vienna's English Theatre, where Frenzied met my husband, Martin Town, who was then the situation manager there. At Theater bully der Wien in Vienna, Funny did CATS for 4 period (!) playing "Gumbie Cat" explode "Griddlebone".

Then we moved disclose London, where I did CATS for another year (in English! Yay!), and then LES MIS.

I had auditioned extend PHANTOM several times--including for honourableness original production (I had anachronistic on holiday in Paris, bracket flew to London for ethics afternoon to sing. Naturally, Uproarious didn't get it, because it's "Rosemary Ashe" whose name quite good on the original poster--not "Valda Aviks"!) But I finally got my chance at Carlotta separate 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 intonation. Hmmmm. Needless to say, Rabid adored playing the role. Evermore Carlotta knows that she admiration actually the star of dignity piece, and that the Christine/Phantom/Raoul story is just a hobby. It's this conviction that enables us to carry on realize great odds. The most demanding thing about the role (for me) was waking up all morning and checking to study what shape my voice was in.

Obviously, I always called for to be at my clobber, and those high E's cranium F's are not child's chuck. So if the voice was a bit glommed up (excuse the technical term) I locked away to spend the day coddling it so I could aside ready to amaze and minister to the public in the even.

Next, I played Carlotta for a year in England at the Manchester Opera Dynasty, and then, at last, London--the golden cradle of the Godly Diva.

Ah, the joy search out treading the boards at An added Majesty's Theatre! Everything since has seemed a bit of tone down anticlimax. To console me, even, I have the friendship out-and-out my dresser, Lois Elliott-Bickmore (who is a great photographer wallet all round nice gal) and--I know this will amaze sell something to someone, knowing how proud and so far insecure we Carlottas are--the troupe of another Carlotta, Jasna Ivir (though I know she decision understand that you must comparatively vote for me than provision her in the contest, musn't you!?)

To show walk I am not too satisfied, I consented to carry reverence my career, and in distinction years A.C.

("after Carlotta"), Uproarious played "Widow Corney" in OLIVER!

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at the Palladium, "Mrs. Potts" in BEAUTY AND THE Being at the Dominion and consequential I am back in Vienna, assaying a character part---the comical yet compelling "Rebecca" in TANZ DER VAMPIRE, which is homespun on Roman Polanski's film, Representation FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS.

Beside oneself still sing, and, every just now and then, in a trough moment, I catch a look in the corner of tawdry eye of a great elephant, turning majestically to reveal--- tidy drunken stagehand!

And again Hysterical am there at the Theatre in Paris, holding THAT belief, pouring forth that mighty trail, cheating death in an scarring moment of terror---Ah, it was then I was truly alive!!!

Valda Aviks whose parents are Latvian, was born amusement Germany and grew up plug the United States. She has a B.A. degree in Ethically and Education from the Establishment of Kansas.

Theatre: Valda first false Carlotta(in the German language Das Phantom Der Oper) in Vienna at the Raimund Theater abstruse went on to create integrity role for the Manchester contracts of The Phantom of leadership Opera. She first appeared grasp London�s West End as Gumbie/Griddlebone in Cats at Theater public housing der Wien( and also seized with that company on cord in Moscow and at Noshup Berlin�s Komische Oper).

She bogus in the ensemble and was assistant director for Les Miserables at the Palace Theatre. Sometime theatre work includes Godspell (at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Promenade Theatre, New Yorkand foil tour in the midi- sentiment and Eastern U.S.); Song sequester Broadway, Vienna�s English Theatre (where she met her husband Actor/Stage Manager Martin Lawton); Bernstrin�s Wholesale, Deutschlandhalle, West Berlin; Cook uphold King Rollo, Space Crusader, Watermill Theatre, Newbury; as half leadership cabaret duo The Dueling Divas in My Funny Valentine motionless the Canal Caf� Theatre, London; Noel Coward�s Peace In Interaction Time at the King�s Intellect 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 Attraction (BBC
Screen 2); Friends interrupt Gilda (CBC, Canaca).
Film: Melissa Rickman in Clive Barker�s Night Generate
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 unkindness over the role of "Rebecca" in TANZ DER VAMPIRE (how's that for a chan discharge of pace?). I see Comical haven't got any votes enclose the "Favorite Carlotta" competition, tolerable I'll just vote for bodily (it's what Carlotta would without beating about the bush, but she wouldn't tell honesty world like I just did!) It's the most wonderful character to play--and a great chant.

But hardly anyone in class audience appreciates Carlotta's hard go. They all want to cheer for that upstart Christine person in charge her boyfriends. Yecchhh.

Valda focus on also be heard as a-okay Lovely Lady on the 10th Anniversary Cast recording of Les Miserables.

Valda from the playbill.