Jim Dale might be best known for writing his Academy award-winning song “Georgy Girl,” but he’s also appeared on television, in film, and has come to be known as “the voice of Harry Potter,” after recording all seven books onto audio. All of this and more and now, he’ll tell of it all in his one-man show, Just Jim Dale, that’s now debuting in New Haven, Connecticut.
The entire show is only 90 minutes long; not a lot of time to cover a career that has spanned 60 years. And while it’s taken a year to create, the last thing Jim Dale says he wants is “to be up there too long.” He says he also “didn’t want to do one of those “and then I did” shows,” and audiences are guaranteed to be enraptured by every minute.
Not only because it’s an up close and personal look at one of the most iconic figures in show business; but also because he’ll be performing two or three songs from “Barnum,” one of his most popular works yet that was originally done in the 80s and has never been revived. And, Dale is sure to bring his best once again to this performance. Not only because his heart now belongs to Broadway, but also because he says, “I want people to say, ‘I’ve never seen anything I didn’t like him in.'”
Certainly this will be one of the many to add to the list that audiences will love. The show began on June 14 and runs for two weeks at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
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