Never Forget You" (pop song) & " All That Jazz" from Chicago with coaching from Ruthie Henshall (Musical Song) Growing up in Fayetteville, New York, the youngest child of a hardware merchant and a women’s suffrage activist, Maud was an active, outdoorsy child. Her mother, Matilda Joslyn Gage, a contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and other 19th century American feminists, encouraged Maud to wear her brother’s trousers while playing outside after her petticoat got caught on a fence. Though Matilda is ambitious for her daughter, imagining her with a law degree, she has left most of Maud’s day-to-day care to her daughter Julia, ten years Maud’s senior. Julia left Cornell University because of “nerves”; Matilda’s hopes are now pinned on Maud. a b Midgley, Neil (11 September 2009). "Andrew Lloyd Webber to audition dogs for The Wizard of Oz's Toto". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009 . Retrieved 3 January 2010.

One of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, Hedy Lamarr also designed a secret weapon against Nazi Germany. The first of the live finals on Saturday, 3 April saw the 11 finalists perform to stay in the competition. Emilie was announced as the wildcard contestant following the vote at the end of the previous programme. The girls' mission this week was to work on a farm, and they were judged by Countryfile's Adam Henson. He selected Bronte to win the mission; her prize was an extra performance during the results programme and she chose Amy, Emilie and Jessica to join her.What’s new here, the latest literary news, plus fresh giveaways every month. Sent out just once a month, for free. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of “Over the Rainbow,” Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette’s daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy reminds Maud of a younggirl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending. Now, with the young actress under pressure from the studio as well as her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect her—the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy. It was a city within a city, a textile mill to weave the gossamer of fantasy on looping looms of celluloid. From the flashing needles of the tailors in the costume shop to the zoo where the animals were trained, from the matzo ball soup in the commissary to the blinding-­white offices in the brand-­new Thalberg executive building, an army of people—composers and musicians, technicians and tinsmiths, directors and actors—spun thread into gold. Once upon a time, dreams were made by hand, but now they were mass-­produced. These forty-­four acres were their assembly line.

The live shows took place in the Fountain Studios in London. [11] Profits from viewer votes went to the BBC Performing Arts Fund. [10] Toto [ edit ]

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Maud’s storyline is every bit as compelling as its Hollywood counterpart, and Letts does a brilliant job of bringing her characters to life, connecting the dots between fact and fiction, and illuminating the power of women to protect and celebrate one another."