STEFANIE HAS BUILT HER POWERS ON GLITTERING STAGE AND SCREEN ROLES 

Anglophile Stefanie back on stage with the tale of an influential chiropractor.

 Actresses often complain of a shortage of good roles for women. But Stefanie Powers did not play a beautiful detective in the long running television series Hart to Hart for nothing, she tracked down her latest play herself.

 The Adjustment, which opens at Windsor's Royal Theatre for a week from Monday, is a new American play in which Stefanie plays a tough political lobbyist forced to rethink her whole lifestyle under the influence of a gentle, honest chiropractor treating her bad back.  She finds her lying on his table but his manipulation of her aching bones is only the preview to his growing influence on her psyche. Stefanie says "I found the play a year and a half ago, I was on the board of the Shakespeare Festival Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut and we did a one-off gala performance of this play by a new author for one night only. 

Impressed 

"I liked it enormously and when I went back to California I got an actor friend of mine to read it. He was impressed too and told me of a producer in England he thought would want to put it on".  The result has been a huge hit 'on the road' in England and should soon be heading to the West End before hopefully Broadway.

Stefanie is no stranger to the stage, having starred in the West End before in Matador and Love Letters. Her extraordinary life has not been short of challenger in other spheres either.

 Polo

She also has a home in England, a country she has loved, worked in and visited all her life. She plays polo and is a frequent visitor to important matches at Windsor. Coming here has it's drawbacks though. Stefanie has six much-loved dogs and despite the easing of the quarantine laws finds herself separated from them when she comes here. She says "I know you can get this chip inserted now that allows you to come in with your animal but try finding someone to sort that out for you at Heathrow. You have to go to France, try to find a reputable vet and then continue on the train".  The Adjustment runs at Windsor's Royal Theatre from Monday, May 15th until Saturday, May 20th. Tickets start at £6 (£8 Friday and Saturday evenings). Box office 01753 853888

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The Hollywood Reporter

By ROBERT OSBORNE

Stefanie Powers has, in several instances, exhibited her singing pipes in public, not too many moons ago at the famed Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in ``Applause,'' also on London's West End in ``Matador.'' But it still came as a shocker, at least to my ears, when she got up at a dandy party at the Gardenia in West Hollywood last week and, cool as a cucumber, belted out several songs with the great Page Cavanaugh and his trio.

TV's Mrs. Hart a singer? Indeed she is, and good enough that she should be at the top of the list whenever anyone is looking for a Broadway-worthy starter or replacement for any current or future ``Annie Get Your Guns,'' ``Putting It Togethers'' or whatever. I should add that Stef was placid and calm, even though her singing was done in front of a crowd that included people who knew more than a little about musicianship and showmanship, people like Gogi Grant, Maureen McGovern, Michael Feinstein, Billy Barnes, Ruth O'Lay, Nancy Dussault, Nancy Sinatra Sr., Carole Cook and Jane A. Johnston. Also among those applauding were Ann Rutherford, Jacque Mapes, Joan Leslie, Ed Bell (wife Esther Williams was bedded with a cold), George Eckstein, Tom Hatten, Jackie Joseph, Dick Moore (wife Jane Powell was in New York doing the concert staging of Kander & Ebb's ``70, Girls, 70'') and the evening's host Al Morley (who also sang, by the way, and winningly). What, you might ask, triggered the impromptu Powers-Cavanaugh connection? They recently completed a CD, just out, called ``Stefanie Powers and Page Cavanaugh: On the Same Page.''

NOTE: For information on obtaining "Stefanie Powers and Page Cavenaugh: On the Same Page" contact Stefanie's Fan Club at Fansource.
 

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LONDON THEATRE GOERS GUIDE, June 14, 2000

Round-up shows planning to come to London

Here's our regular round-up of shows that are planning to come to the London but are yet to announce a venue. It contains both surefire hits and pipe dreams but it's up to you to distinguish between them. Please note that all shows that have already found a venue are in our listings database that can accessed through the Showfinder on our home page or by clicking on Search in the contents panel.

Summer 2000:

Not You Again!

London Evening Standard Aug. 18, 2000

American actress Stefanie Powers has been doing her best to be seen at as many pukka dos as possible. In the past few weeks she's bee spotted mingling with the aristocracy at the Veuve Clicquot polo, hobnobbing at the Cartier equivalent, bopping at a bash in aid of the Weston Spirit National Youth Charity and rubbing shoulders with our very own Julie Andrews at the Relative Values premier. Is all the part of a quest to infiltrate the English Establishment? No need, Stef. You're already an institution.