Jean Dell

(****-****). Actress. Performed in South Pacific (as “Bloody Mary”), Lock up Your Daughters (as “Mrs Squeezum”), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (for which she won a Critics Award), Holiday Spectacular (she was the female lead), Words and Music (with CAPAB), Remember the Forties (with CAPAB), Showboat (as “Julie” with CAPAB), Chicago (as “Mama Morten” with PACT), A Tribute to Lili Lamont (with PACT). Also performed on the Southern Suns cabaret circuit. (SACD 1975/76) (SACD 1977/78) (SACD 1978/79) (SACD 1981/82)

DELL, Jean. (19*-) Actress. Jim Stodel’s daughter. A well-known radio actress and personality. ** She starred in the JODS production of South Pacific which was staged at the Civic by Brickhill-Burke in 1969. There were designs by Keith Anderson and it alos starred Inia te Wiata, June Hern and James White. She starred in Taubie Kushlick’s production of Eric Blau and Mort Shuman’s Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris together with Ann Hamblin, Ferdie Uphof and Alain D. Woolf, with Irene Frangs and Robin Dolton as understudies and alternative cast members at the Chelsea Theatre in 1972. Lindsay Heard was the musical director. She starred in Brickhill-Burke’s production of Jerome Lawrence’s Mame, an adaptation of Auntie Mame, at the Civic in November 1982. It also starred Joan Brickhill, Janice Honeyman and Mark Richardson, The King and I (directed by Louis Burke for PACT?*, 198??**)

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