Jane Summerhays

On stage 7 productions, 25 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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In the literature8 passages

• JANE SUMMERHAYS has appeared on Broadway in such shows as Me and My Girl , Lend Me a Tenor , and A Chorus Line.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JANE SUMMERHAYS: I was doing a television special when I auditioned for the part of Sheila. The auditions were like the show. Michael would constantly refer to them in directing: “Remember the auditions.”ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JANE SUMMERHAYS: I was sitting in a coffee shop in Manhattan, and the radio was on. They broke for news and the first item was that Michael Bennett had died. My god, I thought, he was only forty-four years old.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JANE SUMMERHAYS: Jerry Zaks worked me into Lend Me a Tenor . I was off book when I went in, knew the lines, knew the role cold.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• JANE SUMMERHAYS: The house opens. The squawk box goes on: “Ladies and gentlemen, a half hour!” You start gearing up. Sometimes there’s fatigue. You think, How am I going to do this? Then you hear sounds of the theater filling up, the orchestra warming up, and you perk up. Before you know it, there’s the five-minute call, and then the over…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, George S. Irving, Jane Connell, Jane Summerhays, Nick Ullett, Timothy Jerome, Thomas Toner, Justine Johnston, Elizabeth Larnerebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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• What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
• Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.