When I spoke to Jim last week, it had just been announced that his one-man show, Just Jim Dale, which played to excellent reviews for the Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway last year, will transfer to London’s West End in May.Ĭharles Arrowsmith: Many congratulations on the forthcoming West End transfer! What are you looking forward to most about bringing the show to British audiences? The Brits among you will be familiar with his eleven-film run in the Carry On series of comedies. New Yorkers will remember his performances in Barnum (for which he won the Tony), The Threepenny Opera, Me and My Girl, Candide, and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

Your smaller relatives will recognise him instantly as the voice of the American Harry Potter audiobooks. He’s been a pop star, a radio DJ, an actor of stage and screen, a voice artist, a playwright, a producer, a stand-up comedian, and many other things besides.

He’s received countless other nominations, including an Academy Award nod for the song “Georgy Girl,” later a huge hit for The Seekers, back in 1966.

He’s won a Tony, two Grammys, and four Drama Desk Awards. Jim Dale is a showman of the old school a true renaissance performer.

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