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Jane White

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Actor 1934–1985 On stage 1945–2001

Jane White (1934 - 1985) was an English novelist. White was born in Cambridge in 1934, where her father was a lecturer in History at Downing College. The family moved to Norfolk, where Jane was taught at home by a governess until the age of nine, thereafter attending a Convent boarding school. At eighteen she won a state scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge, graduating with an upper second degree in English. She worked in a public library, was a waitress, a general help in a maternity hospital, then for five years a News Clerk in the News Information Department at the BBC World Service. On the 10th of May 1960, her short story Boy with a Dog was read by actor David Enders as the 'Morning…

On stage 9 productions, 56 years

1945 Strange Fruit Royale Theatre · Original 60 perf.
1948 The Insect Comedy City Center · Original · directed by José Ferrer 14 perf.
1951 Razzle Dazzle The Arena · Original · directed by Edward Reveaux 8 perf.
1952 The Climate of Eden Martin Beck Theatre · Original 20 perf.
1953 Take a Giant Step Lyceum Theatre · Original · directed by John Stix 76 perf.
1958 Jane Eyre Belasco Theatre · Original · directed by Demetrios Vilan 52 perf.
1959 Once Upon A Mattress Phoenix Theater · Original · directed by George Abbott 460 perf.
1968 The Cuban Thing Henry Millers Theatre · Original 1 perf.
2001 Follies Belasco Theatre · Revival · directed by Matthew Warchus 117 perf.

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Worked with more than once2 names

Robinson Stone 2 productions
Dorothy Carter 2 productions

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In the literature8 passages

  • Act One: “Many Moon Ago” (Harry Snow, Court); “An Opening for a Princess” (Joe Bova, Anne Jones, Knights, Ladies); “In a Little While” (Anne Jones, Dan Resin); “In a Little While” (reprise) (Anne Jones, Dan Resin); “Shy” (Carol Burnett, Tom Mixon, Knights, Ladies); “The Minstrel, The Jester and I” (Will Lee, Harry Snow, Jerry Newby); “Sen…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast: Joseph Bova, Carol Burnett, Allen Case, Jack Gilford, Anne Jones, Matt Mattox, Harry Snow, Jane Whiteebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Cast : Blythe Danner, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Treat Williams, Polly Bergen, Marge Champion, Betty Garrett, Joan Roberts, Donald Saddler, Jane White, Carol Woods, Louis Zorich, Roxane Barlow, Carol Bentley, Erin Dilly, Kelli O’Haraebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • 185 . Jane White, “Interview of Jane White by Delilah Jackson, April 17, 1993,” in Artist and Influence 12 (1993), 193; available online in Black Thought and Culture .ebooks/Oja, Carol J_/Bernstein Meets Broadway_ Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Carol J. Oja.txt
  • Waterston (Cloten), Jane White (Queen), Christopher Walken (Posthumus Leonatus), Bruce Cobb (Arviragus), Sam Tsoutsouvas (Guiderius), Mark Hammer (Belarius), Don Plumley (Pisanio), Joseph Stem (Second Lord), Stephen P Schnetzer (First Lord), Diana Kirkwood (Dorothy), William Devane (lachimo), Norman Snow (Philario), Carl Mikal Franklin (F…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
  • Sell, Isao Sato, John Shea, Don Scardino, Kristoffer Tabori, Fritz Weaver, Dianne Wiest, Jane White, Peter Weller, and Jerry Zaks.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt

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