Another challenge, she admitted, was to sing the film version of "The Glamorous Life" (from "A Little Night Music"), which ponders the impact on a child of having a famous, peripatetic show business parent.
Dum Pukht Downstairs from Bukhara in the Maurya Sheraton, this is a far less glamorous and, from a tourist perspective, less popular restaurant (there is no mention of Clinton), but food-savvy residents all recommend it, with good reason: this is regional food from Lucknow, a city southeast of New Delhi, and some of it is downright dreamy.
And then, as if by a trick of the light, the shocking pink was fractured into a degrade rainbow of magenta, lilac, turquoise and rose which shimmered across every conceivable option of glamorous eveningwear – from a multicoloured feather coat, to a blazer with shaggy silk fringing, to a printed silk organza ballgown.
It strikes me that running a big estate is rather similar to being an MP: glamorous from the outside, but the reality is a lot of admin and fixing blocked drains.
Simon Rattle, who's made a specialty of coaxing glamorous sounds from an orchestra in this repertoire, conducts.
Another image that sticks with him: the sight of two glamorous girls from an especially prestigious school, left unconscious, their faces scribbled on with markers, after the kind of partying in which Bellingham kids indulge.
Nina Stemme, today's most in-demand Wagnerian soprano, and Stuart Skelton headline a first-rate cast that also includes Ekaterina Gubanova and René Pape; Simon Rattle, who's made a specialty of coaxing glamorous sounds from an orchestra in this repertoire, conducts.
There are also those whose childhoods must seem misleadingly glamorous from the outside.
Though touring may seem glamorous from afar, there's little time for sightseeing.
Then the queen's late sister Princess Margaret, still supposed to be glamorous from her mildly renegade youth.
