The third of four conversations in which Robert Dawson Scott invites a performer to look back on a considerable musical challenge. Few actresses dare to take a one-woman show into the fiercely competitive world of West End theatre. Maria Friedman
gathered songs by the likes of Jacques Brel , Stephen Sondheim and even Kate Bush to create By
Special Arrangement. She reflects on the pressures of taking the stage alone, night after night. Producer John Goudie