The Velvet Underground drummer Mark Nauseef. After Sesnick failed to show up in London to meet the band with the necessary money and equipment, they played the handful of dates to secure enough money for flights back to the US, and Yule left the band when the brief tour ended in December 1972. Yule recorded the Polydor album (ultimately titled "Squeeze") under the Velvet Underground name virtually by himself, with only the assistance of Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and a few other session musicians in an unspecified London studio. While Yule intended to recruit Tucker to play drums on "Squeeze", Sesnick vetoed
Jill Paice the Palace Theatre, London. Lloyd Webber was required to hire two "unknown American actors" in order to satisfy Actors Equity union rules for the future transfer of the production to Broadway to include the British actors Michael Crawford and Maria Friedman. Paice reprised her role in the Broadway production in 2005 at the Marquis Theatre in New York. She received good notices, but the show closed after only 109 performances on Broadway. Off-Broadway, Paice appeared in the York Theatre Company productions of "Weird Romance" (2004)and "The Gig" (2006). In 2006 she originated the role of Nikki Harris in "Curtains" in