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Elena Roger was the toast of the West End last year following her performance as Eva Peron in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Evita. It is quite a leap from portraying one of the most controversial women of the 20th century to her new role as a stewardess in Boeing Boeing at the Comedy. Roger spoke to Jo Fletcher-Cross about the new challenges ahead and where to tango in London.
Elena Roger is trying to dust off an electric fan when I walk into her dressing room, but springs up and enthusiastically kisses me hello, apologising for the small, slightly airless room. Apparently when she was in Evita, her dressing room was one of the biggest in the West End "like a flat, a bit much, really", but here at the Comedy she is in a tiny, grey room. It is a bit of a change from the grand boudoir at the Adelphi, but she has begun to stamp her exuberant personality on the dull surroundings. There are pictures of Buenos Aires on the wall, a photograph of her much-missed dog who is back in Argentina, and a Sindy doll dressed as a stewardess – a nod to her role as Italian trolley dolly Gabriella in the aviation-based farce Boeing Boeing.
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