Life's Still a Cabaret ; Sheila Hancock Moved Millions with a Heart-Wrenching Account of the Death of Her Husband John Thaw. Now, As She Returns to the West End Stage, She Rejects Her 'Tedious' Image As the Nation's Favourite Grieving Widow and Proclaims. . .

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SHEILA HANCOCK is unaccustomed to taking days off, but last week she felt she'd earned one.

'We'd been rehearsing at the theatre from ten in the morning to ten at night. At my age, I should be at home with my feet up,' she says, her eyebrows raised in mock horror.

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Life's Still a Cabaret ; Sheila Hancock Moved Millions with a Heart-Wrenching Account of the Death of Her Husband John Thaw. Now, As She Returns to the West End Stage, She Rejects Her 'Tedious' Image As the Nation's Favourite Grieving Widow and Proclaims. . .

'So I had lunch with one of my grandchildren and watched daytime telly. It's what women my age should be doing, for God's sake, not working 12-hour days.'

At 73, an age when most people might prefer to spend their evenings with a mug of cocoa, Sheila has taken on her first major musical role for more than a decade.

She will play Fraulein Schneider, the kindly landlady who falls in love with an elderly Jewish grocer, in a new West End production of the musical Cabaret, set in Thirties Berlin. In the 1972 Oscar- winning fil...

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