![]() ![]() 196? Cleo Laine Jazz Master Series, DRG Records MRS 502.1961 Jazz Date (with Tubby Hayes), Wing.Show Boat had its longest run to date in that London season with 910 performances staged. ![]() This led to other stage performances, such as the musical Valmouth in 1959, the play A Time to Laugh (with Robert Morley and Ruth Gordon) in 1962, Boots With Strawberry Jam (with John Neville) in 1968, and eventually to her role as show-stopping Julie La Verne in Wendy Toye's production of Show Boat at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1971. She played the lead in a new play at London's Royal Court Theatre, home of the new wave of playwrights of the 1950s such as John Osborne and Harold Pinter. Laine began her career as a singer and actress. The couple had two children, who are both successful musicians in their own right: Alec who lives in the US, and Jacqui, a British singer who has released a number of albums. The only witnesses were the couple's friend, pianist Ken Moule, and Dankworth's arranger, David Lindup. Dankworth and Laine married that year in secret at Hampstead Register Office. She auditioned successfully, at the age of 24, for John Dankworth's small group, the Dankworth Seven, and later his orchestra, with which she performed until 1958. Laine did not take up singing professionally until her mid-twenties. ![]()
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