Janie Sell

On stage 7 productions, 11 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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In the literature8 passages

• Janie Sell and the Andrews Sisters in Over Here! Any fan of 1940s music will be able to identify the two women on the right: Patty and Maxene Andrews, two members of the sister-act trio that sold millions of records. But who’s that woman on the left? Why, Janie Sell, who stood in for Laverne Andrews (who’d died in 1967) for the 1974 music…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• The irony is that the non-sister Mitzi—played by unknown Janie Sell—received a Tony Award, while neither Patty nor Maxene even nabbed a nomination. Still, the reason that audiences came for 341 performances to a show that didn’t have enough of a story and precious little second act was to see the Andrews Sisters. The stars knew it, and af…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Janie Sell must be the only Tony winner whose role asked her to sing the first four lines of the second verse of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” That’s the one that starts, “On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• In the 1970s, after Janie Sell won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Over Here! she went a year and a half without a Broadway role. Oh, there was an undistinguished TV movie called Wives and a seventeen-performance stint off-Broadway in By Bernstein. But the next Broadway role was the small part of Gladys Bumps in a limi…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• And after that, Janie Sell enrolled in Hunter College to get a degree in psychology.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• They did, via Mitzi (Janie Sell). By the end of the first act, that famous three-part harmony that had sold more than thirty million records was almost identically back in place.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt

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