She was best known for her theatre roles. She recalled once, “What a gift that would be to have more of a permanent record. A stage performance is just that, then it's lost. When I see movies on TV, I think, 'How great to have that.' But why look back? The decisions I made, I made. I can't change that.” In 1973 she took over from Angela Lansbury in the London production of "Gypsy" at the Piccadilly Theatre. In 1987 she starred in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" at the Shaftesbury Theatre to great acclaim and appeared in the Royal Variety Performance of that year with a show-stopping performance of the song