Janie Sell

Janie Sell
Born	Jane Ann Sell (1939-10-01) October 1, 1939 (age 86) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Other names	Jane Ann Trese (married name)
Occupation(s)	Actress, singer
Spouse(s)	Patrick Trese (secondly; c. 1990-present)
Children	1 (by her first marriage)
Awards	Best Featured Actress in a Musical 1974 Over Here!

Jane Ann "Janie" Sell (born October 1, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American stage actress. She has performed in plays and musicals both on and off-Broadway, as well as in some films and television episodes.

Career

Sell won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Over Here! , ^[1] which also starred the then-surviving Andrews Sisters Maxene and Patty, and introduced John Travolta and Marilu Henner to Broadway. She also appeared in George M! , I Love My Wife , Irene , Dames at Sea and a revival of Pal Joey . She appeared off-Broadway in Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater in 1979 at the Entermedia Theater. The musical comedy version of Vonnegut's novel was adapted and directed by Howard Ashman, with music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Ashman and Dennis Green. ^[2]

She substituted for Carol Burnett in each Wednesday matinée performance of the comedy Moon Over Buffalo , which co-starred Philip Bosco, in the mid-1990s.^{[ citation needed ]}

Acting credits

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	George M!	Mrs. Baker/Mme. Grimaldi/Flamethrower's Assistant	Broadway
1973	Irene	Jane Burke, Irene O'Dare (u/s)	Broadway
1974	Over Here!	Mitzi	Broadway
1976	Pal Joey	Gladys Bumps	Broadway
1977	I Love My Wife	Monica	Broadway
	Happy End	Lillian Holiday	Broadway
1979	Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater	Sylvia Rosewater	Off-Broadway
1995	Moon Over Buffalo	Charlotte Hay (standby), Ethel (standby)	Broadway

Television and film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Wives	Frannie	TV movie
1979	Starting Fresh	Phoebe Johnson	TV movie
	Lost and Found	Zelda
1980	Captain Kangaroo	Old Mother Hubbard	1 episode
1983	Your Place...Or Mine	Sandy	TV movie
1984	A Good Sport	Sherry	TV movie

References

1. "Winners (Janie Sell)". Tony Awards.
2. "Janie Sell in Vonnegut Show". The New York Times. September 3, 1979. Retrieved November 11, 2018.

External links

• Janie Sell at the Internet Broadway Database
• Janie Sell at Playbill Vault
• Janie Sell at IMDb