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'Just Jim Dale' Returns To Club Helsinki

JOAN MARCUS

  Jim Dale started his professional career as a seventeen year old comedian playing the Music Halls of Britain. A little down the road he became a pop singing star during the early days of rock and roll and appeared in fourteen of the legendary Carry On films for the British cinema.

At the request of Laurence Olivier he joined the British National Theatre. He starred in the first Musical by Cameron Mackintosh, The Card, and played Fagin in Oliver! at the London Palladium. He first appeared on the American stage in 1973 - in 1980 he won the Tony Award for his work in Barnum.

Jim Dale and Sarah LaDuke in New York City, 2014

  That’s about half of his bio - and I didn’t even mention that he wrote the Academy Award Nominated song “Georgy Girl” or the fact that masterfully narrated the audiobooks of The Harry Potter series. Jim Dale tells these - and other - stories of his career in his one man show, Just Jim Dale - which ran off-Broadway produced by The Roundabout Theatre Company last summer.

The show is moving to London - but first, Jim will perform the show at Helsinki Hudson in Hudson, NY this Sunday, March 22nd - presented in association with Showstoppers New York.

Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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