The Daily Mail's showbiz page reported today on Elaine defying the lights going out on Broadway this week during her performance of I’m Still Here in Sondheim’s Follies:

IF ANYONE needed a lesson in how a great theatre star handles a mishap on stage, they should have been at the Marquis Theatre in New York last Friday night, when the lights went out as Elaine Paige was in the middle of her big solo number, I'm Still Here, from the musical Follies.

'Good times and bum times, I've seen them all / And my dears, I'm still here,' she sang (rather appropriately) - and she kept on singing in defiance of the dark, with enough vital energy to power her own spotlights.

In fact, the power cut, which hit the rest of Times Square, only added to Paige's powerful delivery of the number.

Before she'd even opened her mouth I'd already decided she was giving the best performance in the show - although Jan Maxwell had a good moment or two...