Britain’s great theatrical dames, including Judi Dench, are putting on a show at the Palladium for my 75th birthday
With the wonderful Dame Judi Dench, at the beginning of March, I am hosting a charity matinée at the London Palladium. It’s to mark my 75th birthday and, more importantly, to raise £ 75,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital, where my youngest grandson was successfully treated for cancer when he was just a baby. The show is going to be a celebration of some of my favourite people: Britain’s great theatrical dames. The first actor to be knighted was Sir Henry Irving in 1897. The first actress to be made a dame was Irving’s stage partner, Ellen Terry, in 1925. Since then, just 50 actresses have become dames (many more actors have been made knights). Happily, most of the living dames will be joining Judi and me at the Palladium, doing turns and chatting about the dames they have known and admired. The first theatrical dame I encountered was Dame...
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