Ms. Ute Lemper was born in Münster, Germany, in 1963. Her father was a banker, her mother an opera singer. She began piano and taking dance lessons at the age of nine. After musical training in Salzburg, Cologne and Berlin, she was introduced to classical theatre at the Max Reinhardt seminary in Vienna. Ms. Ute Lemper started her stage career at the tender age of 15, working in jazz and piano bars. A year later, she joined the punk group The Panama Drive Band. She spent two years at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, performing in plays by Fassbinder and Chekhov. In 1983, Andrew Lloyd Webber offered her a part in the Viennese production of Cats - I happened to be there with my college class and some of us had access to seats directly on the stage. For one year, Ms Ute Lemper alternated between the roles of Grizabella and Bombalurina. In 1985, she played the title role in the musical comedy Peter Pan in Berlin. CONTINUES ON P43