Topaz
2 primary works • 6 total works
Book 2
Flushed with her success in the Starbridge Christmas show, Topaz asks Adelaide Diamond, Headmistress of the Precious Gems Stage School, if she can appear in adverts. To her surprise, Miss Diamond agrees. But the path to fame and fortune is never smooth, particularly when blocked by arch-rival Octavia Quaver from Rhapsody's Theatre Academy ...
Book 3
When Topaz has a chance encounter with Madame Catovia, a fortune teller at the Starbridge Summer Festival, she ignores the prediction that she will never be a star. But when she finds herself cut out of a crowd scene despite standing next to the poisonous Octavia Quaver during filming, and only manages to get a part as a dead body in a re-make of Murder Mile, Topaz begins to wonder if Madame Catovia is right after all. Then Octavia's pushy mother Pauline is ordered off the film set and Octavia makes a strangely familiar prediction ...
Topaz L'Amour is ecstatic - she's won a place at the Precious Gems Stage School! But in the competitive world of show business, singing into a hairbrush and tap dancing on the bathroom floor with drawing pins in your trainers count for nothing. Topaz quickly learns that life at stage school is hard work. Topaz's new friends at Precious Gems have to deal with their own problems: Sapphire longs for her movie-star mother to take an interest in her life and accept that she doesn't want to go into show business. Ruby would love to perform but can't get over her crippling stage fright. And Topaz doesn't just have to cope with lack of experience and training - the scheming and ambitious Octavia Quaver, from Rhapsody's Theatre Academy, is doing her best to steal the limelight. Follow the trials, tears, tribulations and eventual triumph of Topaz and her friends, as they try to make their dreams come true.
Topaz L'Amour is thrilled: her hard work at Precious Gems Stage School is paying off, and she's beaten hundreds of hopefuls to a role in a play. But when the leading lady refuses to attend rehearsals and is sacked by the director, it looks as if the production is doomed. Worse still, Topaz has to share the part with her arch-rival Octavia Quaver from Rhapsody's Theatre Academy. Will the play be ready on time? And if it is, who will be chosen for the opening night ...?
Topaz L'Amour can't believe her luck - she's back for a second year at Precious Gems Stage School! Convinced that fame is just around the corner, she's auditioning for the Ice Spectacular ...despite not being able to skate. But when Octavia Quaver, her crafty rival from Rhapsody's Theatre Academy, gets the part of the Ice Princess, Topaz begins to wonder whether she'll ever become a star ...
Topaz L'Amour has reached the end of her first year at Precious Gems Stage School, and she's off to Whoosh Waterworld with her friends for a well-earned break. But there's no chance to relax when she discovers that her arch-rival Octavia Quaver from Rhapsody's Theatre Academy is at the same holiday park. They've both entered the Search for a Star talent competition and Octavia is determined to win, whatever it takes!