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... FROM MIS TO MISS Glasgow born actor Mark O'Malley is currently wowing Miss Saigon audiences with his portrayal of the romantic role of Chris in the West End musical. Just three years ago the 28-year-old performer went along to an open audition for Les Miserables in Edinburgh and successfully toured the UK in the show. It was in the role of Marius that Cameron Mackintosh spotted him and invited ...

... GRIM UP NORTH Edinburgh film buffs will come face to face with batrayal. Poverty and tragedy this summer, thanks to a hard hitting new drama from BBC Wales. Streetlife, written and directed by Karl Francis, will be Screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival in competition for the presti gious Michael Powell Award. The show stars Helen McCarthy (pictured above) as a single mother experiencing the ...

... FIVE GO MAD ON THE BOX Crack open the ginger beer boys and girls, Enid Blyton's ever-popular Famous Five are back in a new series of action-packed adventures. Starting this week on HTV and Tyne Tees and on the rest of the ITV network next spring, Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the Dog can be seen solving mysteries. ...

... Impressive tribute--The Shania Twain Experience IT boys--Martin and John of Mainline Computers keep track of the hundreds of visitors Cheers--(left to right) John Frankland, Dave O'Hara and Kaye Frankland share a joke. Pictures: lain Duck Photography Kicking back--Back 2 The Future enjoy a break In full swing--another packed house is entertained by Showcall Showcase Dancing queens- ...

... Picture: Simon Warner The Stage's managing director Catherine Comerford and Consultant editor Peter hepple present Jeremy Raison, artistic director of the chester Gateway (center), with The Stage award for Special Achivement in Regiinal Theatre in 1996 ...

... Picture: Tristram kenton. See review on Page 12 Gene Wilder in Laughter on the 23rd Floor at Queen's. ...

... This year's Dame Ninette de Valois Bursary, awarded by the Dancers Trust, was presented to joint winners Michael Lindo (second left) and Paul Watson (right), pictured with Prunella Scales and Timothy West. The awards were presented by trust chairman Ned Sherrin, Birmingham Royal Ballet's artistic director David Bintley and former opera singer lris Kells Arlen ...

... STAR SNAPS DISCOVERED Evergreen Cliff Richard really was a fresh-faced youth when this previously unseen photogragh was taken. It shows Cliff and the Shadows at the Spa Royal Hall, Bridlington, on September 3, 1961. Other negatives remained unprinted by amateur photographer Mike Wilson for more than 37 years until he found them by chance. ...

... FOND MEMORIES OF PATRICIA HAYES Picture: John Dove Members of the Catholic Stage Guild (left to right) Pauline Collins, Polly James Christopher Timothy and Gemma Craven, at a reception after the memorial mass for Patricia Hayes at Westminster Cathedral, which was attended by Cardinal Basil Hume. ...

... Grace Hoffman, the American singer, who is appearing at Covent Garden as Eboli in Don Carlos. Since 1955 she has been the leading mezzo-soprano of the Stuttgart State Opera and during that some year she sang Brangane when the company performed Tristan and Isolde in London. See review on page 17. ...