Tony award winner Frances Ruffelle is a singer, actress, mother, francophile and cabaret chanteuse. She originated the iconic role of Eponine in the first production of “Les Miserables” and took it from the West-End to Broadway and won a Tony award in the process.

Last Year I met her smack bang in the middle of London’s West-End. She had just finished a run in a new musical and the very first run of new cabaret show “Paris Original” to follow her Edinburgh smash hit “Beneath The Dress”.

We talked about her return to the stage after a long sabbatical for motherhood, the bizarre record deal where she never recorded a not but got paid a fortune and why she no longer sings her “Les Mis” showstopper.