Leicester Chronicle from Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 11

ees of iloselle she has just left school with eight '0 levels to pursue a career in the theatre. And, wait for It, she is only 16. Josette, who lives with her family in Coles Close, Thurmaston, should be familiar to regular theatregoers already, for her many roles in Haymarket Theatre productions. She landed her first part when only fourteen, in the original "Joseph and the Technicolor and also toured with the shcw. By the time she had reached sweet sixteenhood, Josette's successes I Jesette has been compared vocally to Sh irley Bassey by friends but here, reclining like an old-fashioned girl, she has the sultry looks of Eartha Kitt.

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Not bad for openers! But Josette is determined to go far in the theatrical world and so. no sooner has she left Alderman Newton's Girls' Almost enough to deter a young School than she's planning a hopeful from embarking on return to the classroom an acting career. but Josette this time in drama school, survived, and has been And that was when she met her accepted by Birmingham's greatest challenge to date. The drama school. awesome rigors of appearing Not satisfied with this however, on the Leicester stage were as she's also lined up an audinothing compared with the lion for the leading drama I drama school audition when school in London an audi- Josette's lovely knees turned lion which promises to be a to Jelly and hummingbirds real nightmare but worth it chased the butterflies in her chatter.

It was the longest for a place at the best school. turn. four minutes of my life." Josette is filling in the time never been so terrified in Josette hit on the comic idea of fore September by helping all my life," she told me. "It a patient with a ticklish out at the Phoenix Theatre, really is difficult to start malaise that kept her con- Lek-ester, reading or acting from cold stantly scratching. But the surprising thing about I with an audience of blank These terrors were followed by Josette is that far from hayfaced judges." the exquisite torture of sight- ing a theatrical background.

Josette had to read modern and reading when the students she's not had any training in Shakespearian pieces and a had to read unfamiliar and acting, singing or dancing. poem, to start with. These very difficult material. In all three spheres she's were hurdles enough in the Josette found herself reading proved talented enough for silent examination room but a middle aged Cockney the Haymarket Theatre troupe! It was the hidden water jump speech and the weather fore- enthusiastic friends liken that worried her improvi- cast! her vocally to Shirley Ramey sation. "We finished with a doctor's re- although a giggling Josette I "I was told to he a patient in a port on treatment for shock denies it it would seem waiting room." she remem- and it was crammed with the she's a ura a ma hers, with an involuntary most difficult and strange for the modern musical.

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