American actress (born 1939)
Janie Sell
Born Jane Ann Sell
(1939-10-01 ) October 1, 1939 (age 85) 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
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
External links
1950–1975 1976–2000 2001–present