Tony Award Nominee Jonelle Allen Starring In Revival Of "Hello Dolly" To Standing Ovations

LOS ANGELES - July 14, 2014 - PRLog -- Multi-talented actress JONELLE ALLEN, former star of the hugely successful hit series, "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" is following in the footsteps of other Broadway legends Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin and Betty Grable starring as "Dolly Levi" in the revival of the legendary musical "Hello Dolly" at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.  The Tony Award nominee for "Two Gentleman of Verona" which earned her the New York Drama Critic's, Drama Desk, Theatre World and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance, has been a fixture on television for the past four (4) decades.

JONELLE ALLEN is currently heading up the New Works//Staged Reading Projects at Saddleback College, also writing and directing new shows which Ms.Allen calls "plays with music' which have been presented at Saddleback,notably an adaptation of Dickens "Christmas Carol" and "The Journey" both with composer, David Anthony Martin.  Earlier this year, Ms.Allen starred in the film "The Divorce" (available online and VOD).  Later this year, JONELLE ALLEN will be doing an updated version of her Florence Mills one woman show,which Ms.Allen is writing with her collaborator, Stevi Meredith.


"Hello Dolly" starring JONELLE ALLEN is playing every Friday and Saturday through July 26th, 2014 at the McKinney Theatre at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA.

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