I Thought It Was All A Flash

You Always Do That With Movie Musicals. You Prerecord And Then You Lip-synch To Playback.

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.

When I Read To Children, I Try To Become The Characters. It's Great If You Can Make A Separate Voice For Each Character. Sometimes You Can Lower Your Voice With Excitement Or Get More Intimate About It: You Can Lean Forward And Engage The Children As A Narrator Or As A Reader. It's Particularly Important That You Find The Voice That You Want To Use For Each Character, Because Then Children Can Imagine That Person As You're Reading Aloud. And Of Course, The Illustrations Help Enormously.

I Think Every Young Girl At Some Point In Her Early Life Wonders What It's Like To Be A Princess. They Like The Idea Of Dressing Up And The Fun Of It.

The Librarians That I've Spoken To, The Teachers And The Librarians Who Really Care And Do Advise Parents And Children Of What's Good And What's Out There, They Are Very Special. They Have A Kind Of Wisdom That A Lot Of People Don't Have.