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BWW Reviews: JUST JIM DALE, A Lifetime of Laughter - Broadway World

BWW Reviews: JUST JIM DALE, A Lifetime of Laughter - Broadway World | music-all | Scoop.it

While introducing the "Museum Song," that show-stopping patter that nimbly tripped from his tongue eight times a week when he starred inBarnum back in 1980 ("Quite a lotta / Roman terra cotta, / Livin' lava from the flanks of Etna..."), the beloved stage star explains that he and on-stage pianist Mark York are going to slow composer Cy Coleman's tempo down a bit so that we can appreciate the creative wordplay of Michael Stewart's lyric.

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Off Broadway Review: 'Just Jim Dale' - Variety

Off Broadway Review: 'Just Jim Dale' - Variety | music-all | Scoop.it

The audiences at “Just Jim Dale” may be turning out to see the chap who gave voice to hundreds of characters as narrator of the entire series of Harry Potter audio books. But they leave the theater humming “Georgy Girl,” the infectious film song that won the British star an Oscar nomination. In the interim, they are royally wooed, pursued, beguiled, enchanted and thoroughly captivated by this actor / singer/ dancer /acrobat / music-hall comic / voice artist / lyricist and raconteur — a one-man band who lives only to make you laugh.


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