WITH BROADWAY ROLE, PETULA CLARK IS WHERE ALL THE LIGHTS ARE BRIGHT.(ACCENT)

Byline: PATRICIA O'HAIRE - New York Daily News

"No, there were no show business types in my family when I was growing up," says Petula Clark, who began her show business career more than 50 years ago as a child star in England. "But my father always wanted to be an actor. He looked like Errol Flynn, had the same kind of mustache, and once was bitten on the leg by an Errol Flynn fan.

"Yes, bitten. And he treasured that scar for the longest time," she says, laughing.

Petula Clark is in New York to take over a major role this week in "Blood Brothers," the British musical at the Music Box. She's to play the mother of twin boys, an impoverished woman …