35-455: Zavaroni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Lena Zavaroni (1963–1999), Scottish singer and television show host Othello Zavaroni (1910–1991), French architect [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Zavaroni . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
70-459: A professional dispute. Her act was deemed too risqué and her three public, unsuccessful marriages were thought to make her unfit to perform in front of royalty. She held a rival performance in a nearby theatre, which she advertised was "by command of the British public". The name of the event was changed to prevent possible royal embarrassment. The Royal Variety Performance became an annual event at
105-548: A tranquilliser overdose, and a fire destroyed all of her show business mementos. After the breakup of her marriage, Zavaroni moved to Hoddesdon , Hertfordshire, to be nearer to her father and his second wife. By this time, she was living on state benefits and, in 1999, was accused of stealing a 50p packet of jelly , but the charges were later dropped. Zavaroni underwent drug treatments and received electroconvulsive therapy in an attempt to end her depression. She begged doctors to operate on her to relieve her depression. Although
140-411: A week she was "making telephone calls, cheerful and engaging in conversation", even asking her doctor if he thought there was any chance that she would get back on stage and sing again. However, three weeks after the operation, she contracted pneumonia which saw her weight drop to less than five stone (32 kg; 70 lb) and died from bronchial pneumonia on 1 October. Although some reports said that
175-739: Is a televised variety show held annually in the United Kingdom to raise money for the Royal Variety Charity (of which King Charles III is life-patron). It is attended by senior members of the British royal family . The evening's performance is presented as a live variety show , usually from a theatre in London and consists of family entertainment that includes comedy , music , dance , magic and other speciality acts. The Royal Variety Performance traditionally begins with
210-581: Is situated in London. A total of 17 members of the royal family have attended the 86 Royal Variety Performances , and the 1912 Royal Command Performance . The performance is broadcast on television throughout the world and is considered by many to be a tradition of the Christmas and New Year holiday season , particularly within the 56 countries of the Commonwealth of Nations . For example, in Norway
245-406: Is then broadcast live and all the acts perform again for the public vote. There have been a total of 17 theatres that have staged the 93 Royal Variety Performances , and the 1912 Royal Command Performance . Out of the total of 93 shows, 75 have been in London theatres and seven in other cities and towns. Note: Where no town or city is noted in the theatre column in the following table, the venue
280-798: The London Palladium theatre, and in the 1950s and 1960s a television show based on the same idea, called Sunday Night at the London Palladium and hosted by many entertainers, including Bruce Forsyth , ran for over 20 years. A wide range of acts has performed at the Royal Variety Performance, including Laurel and Hardy in 1947, The Beatles in 1963, the Supremes in 1968 and the Blue Man Group in 2005. Max Bygraves and Cliff Richard are two of
315-598: The 'odd years'. In both 1976 and 1978, the BBC broadcast the show live. The show was staged mainly in a West End theatre . Prior to 1999, only two shows were staged outside London (1955 in Blackpool and 1959 in Manchester), but in 2003, 2005, 2007 & 2009, Royal Varieties were aired on ITV from regional theatres outside London. ITV secured exclusive rights to televise the show in 2011. The show has been frequently staged in
350-478: The ITV special Lena and Bonnie . In September 1978, the BBC broadcast Lena Zavaroni on Broadway . This episode which was chosen for the 1978 Golden Sea Swallow Festival, where it won the silver award. In 1979, Zavaroni had her own TV series on the BBC titled Lena Zavaroni and Music and from 1980 to 1982 she had a TV series titled Lena . From the age of 13, Zavaroni suffered from anorexia nervosa. While she
385-749: The Royal Variety Charity was then known. It was planned to be in the Empire Theatre , Edinburgh , part of the vast Moss Empires group, but the building caught on fire a month before the show. After the death of Moss, Sir Alfred Butt was chosen as the impresario and it was staged in 1912. This was a lavish occasion, and his London Palace Theatre was lavishly decorated, complete with some three million rose petals. Top performers included Vesta Tilley , Sir George Robey , David Devant , Anna Pavlova , Harry Lauder and Cecilia Loftus . The organisers did not invite Marie Lloyd , because of
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#1732793064607420-498: The Royal Variety Performance aired on BBC One on 29 December 1990. It was hosted by Bruce Forsyth and took a look back at the BBC's television broadcasts of the programme over 30 years, with clips from the archives. After this variation, from 1991, the traditional variety show returned. In 2018 show was hosted by comedian Greg Davies and performed six months after the marriage of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex who attended it with his new wife. This year's aftershow party and banquet
455-628: The United States, Zavaroni was not especially successful in America despite the praise and television appearances; her Ma album did not enter the charts, and its title single only reached number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 during a four-week chart run in the summer of 1974. While attending London's Italia Conti Academy stage school , Zavaroni met and became long-term friends with another young star, Bonnie Langford . They starred in
490-514: The age of two. She was discovered in the summer of 1973 by record producer Tommy Scott , who was on holiday in Rothesay and heard her singing in a band with her father and uncle. Scott contacted impresario Phil Solomon , which led to his partner Dorothy Solomon becoming Zavaroni's manager. In 1974, Zavaroni appeared on Opportunity Knocks (hosted by Hughie Green ) and won the show for a record-breaking five weeks running. She followed this with
525-528: The album Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me) , a collection of classic and then-recent pop standards which reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart. She remains the youngest person to have an album in the top 10, having reached the position at 10 years, 146 days old. Zavaroni sang at a Hollywood charity show with Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball in 1974, at which Ball said: "You're special. Very special and very, very good", although some sources attribute
560-506: The entrance of the members of the royal family followed by the singing of the national anthem, " God Save the King ", which was also performed by the participating acts as a traditional end to Royal Variety Performances; with the exception of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic , as a result of which, " As If We Never Said Goodbye " opened that year's show instead, sung by that year's host, Jason Manford . The first performance, on 1 July 1912,
595-499: The funding for the Royal Variety Charity (formerly the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund) and its care-home for retired members of the entertainment profession and their dependents, Brinsworth House . In 1974, Noele Gordon presented the Royal Variety Performance making her the first female presenter of the show. After the first Royal Variety Performance on 1 July 1912 presented by Sir Alfred Butt , it
630-428: The most frequent performers, having appeared at least 14 and 13 times each respectively between 1950 and 2008 . The Beatles appeared at the 1963 show, when John Lennon delivered the famous line: For our last number I'd like to ask your help: Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery. The money raised by the Royal Variety Performance provides most of
665-466: The operation would not cure her anorexia, she was desperate for it to proceed, and threatened suicide if it did not (she also took a drug overdose). In September 1999, Zavaroni was admitted to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff for the psychosurgical operation. It took place on 7 September and was described as "pioneering". After the operation, she appeared to be in satisfactory condition and after
700-423: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zavaroni&oldid=1082343373 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Monitored short pages Lena Zavaroni Lena Hilda Zavaroni (4 November 1963 – 1 October 1999)
735-624: The programme is broadcast on NRK following the chimes of midnight each New Year's Eve with Norwegian subtitles and in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean Islands and the Bahamas it is broadcast during the afternoon of Christmas Day, every year. In Canada, it has aired on CBC variously on Boxing Day , New Year's Eve or New Year's Day . ITV is contracted by the Royal Variety Charity for TV production and in
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#1732793064607770-477: The shows at the London Palladium . His 1938 show returned to the London Coliseum . Throughout World War II from 1939 to 1944 no shows were presented. The show resumed in 1945 after the war ended. From 1960 to 2010, the BBC and ITV broadcast a recorded version of the show, alternating the production between their two main channels, with the BBC producing and televising the 'even years' and ITV televising
805-533: The suggestion of King George V from 1921 and from 1927 the British Broadcasting Corporation began to broadcast it on radio. From 1928 through to 1938, the impresario-producer and manager of the London Palladium , George Black , took over the presentation of the Royal Variety Performance. He would also facilitate as compere at the shows. His first production was held on 1 March 1928 at the London Coliseum and from 1930 to 1937 he held
840-654: The surgery was a lobotomy (also known as a leucotomy), the hospital said that it was not, and the treatment was intended for depression rather than anorexia as was rumoured at the time. Her funeral took place at the Roman Catholic Church of St Augustine in Hoddesdon on 15 October 1999, and she was buried later that day at Hoddesdon Cemetery in Hertfordshire. Compilations and live albums Royal Variety Show The Royal Variety Performance
875-660: The venue. In 1935 the Royal Variety Performance was held in the Silver Jubilee year of King George V and Queen Mary . This was the last time King George V attended – he died three months later, in January 1936. There have been two Royal Scottish Variety Performances, both attended by Queen Elizabeth II , and presented by Howard & Wyndham Ltd in Glasgow's Alhambra Theatre , which Sir Alfred Butt had opened, in 1958 and 1963. The Children's Royal Variety Performance
910-479: The words to Sinatra. Following this, Zavaroni guest-starred on The Carol Burnett Show , and on 4 June 1974, The Tonight Show . She also appeared on The Morecambe and Wise Show , the 29 May 1975 episode of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club , in the 1976 Royal Variety Show and performed at the White House for U.S. President Gerald Ford . Signed to the soul -oriented Stax Records label in
945-570: Was 15. Following an operation to cure her depression, Zavaroni died at the age of 35 from pneumonia on 1 October 1999. Zavaroni was born in Greenock , Renfrewshire , and grew up in the small town of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute . Her parents owned a fish and chip shop . Her father Victor (b. 1939) played the guitar and her mother Hilda (née Jordan) ( c. 1940 – 1989) sang. Her grandfather Alfredo had emigrated from Italy. Zavaroni began singing at
980-479: Was a Scottish singer and television show host. At age 10, with her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes at Me) , she was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart . Later she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest-star appearances, and appeared on stage. From the age of 13, Zavaroni suffered anorexia nervosa and developed clinical depression when she
1015-427: Was at stage school, her weight dropped to four stone (25 kg; 56 lb). She blamed this on the pressure placed upon her to fit into costumes while at the same time "developing as a woman". She continued to have anorexia throughout the 1980s. In 1989, Zavaroni married computer consultant Peter Wiltshire. The couple settled in north London but separated 18 months later. Also in 1989, Zavaroni's mother Hilda died of
1050-647: Was called the Royal Command Performance , and this name has persisted informally for the event. This was held in the Palace Theatre , Shaftesbury Avenue , London, in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary . After correspondence with theatre impresario Sir Edward Moss , the King said he would command a Royal Variety show in his Coronation year , 1911, provided the profits went to the Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund, as
1085-405: Was devised by entertainer Rod Hull in 1981 and took place in London until 1994 in aid of NSPCC . In 1990, A Royal Birthday Gala to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother , was staged at the London Palladium on 19 July, replacing the traditional November/December Royal Variety Show that year. In place of the traditional show, a special programme called Thirty Years of
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1120-473: Was held with entertainment from magicians, such as Jay & Joss and popular band, The Masqueraders. However in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, a virtual version was held, opening with a virtual message from the then Prince of Wales followed by "As If We Never Said Goodbye" sung by that year's host Jason Manford . The Royal Variety performance of 2023, held in the Royal Albert Hall ,
1155-513: Was hosted by Bradley Walsh . The headline act was performed by Cher . Since 2007, one act of the Royal Variety show has been selected by the British public through the ITV television talent show Britain's Got Talent . A public telephone vote decides the most popular act in each semi-final, which then progresses to the final, along with a second act chosen by the judges. The grand final
1190-787: Was seven years before the next show, on 28 July 1919 held at the Coliseum Theatre presented this time by Sir Oswald Stoll . The orchestra was conducted by Edward Elgar . In 1921 it moved to the Hippodrome , and was held in November. It was the first time that the Royal Variety Performance became an annual event. In 1923 it moved to the Coliseum Theatre . Then after a gap in 1924, moved to the Alhambra Theatre in February 1925, where it remained in 1926, held on 27 May. It
1225-507: Was the first Royal Variety Performance to be broadcast, with the BBC providing live radio coverage. In 1927 there was another move, this time to the Victoria Palace Theatre , with J. A. Webb the compère. The 1928 show, on 13 December, was held at the Coliseum Theatre . The next show, on 22 May 1930, moved to the London Palladium with George Black and Val Parnell compèring. It was the start of seven successive years at
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