Hy Hazell

b. Hyacinth Hazel O’Higgins, 4 Oct 1922, London, Britain, d. 10 Might 1970, London, Britain (her calendar year of birth may also be shown as 1919). An exuberant comic professional and lively vocalist and dancer, Hazell was still in her early teenagers when she made an appearance as an associate from the chorus in the Western world End creation of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s ON YOUR OWN Toes (1937). Her forthright stage existence, to say nothing at all of her lengthy legs, produced her an all natural for the British tradition of experiencing attractive young females play the function of Primary Boy in pantomime and for a few years she was extremely popular within this seasonal facet of the theater. Her perhaps most obviously stage performances emerged afterwards when, although still just in her mid-thirties, she had taken the function from the over-the-hill film superstar Dixie Collins in Wolf Mankowitz’s play Expresso Bongo (1958), with music and lyrics by David Heneker and Monty Norman. She implemented this using a stunning portrayal of lubricious Mrs. Squeezum in SECURE Your Daughters (1959). In america, she performed Catherine the fantastic in Frank Loesser’s Pleasures And Palaces (1965), which shut during its out-of-town tryout. That same calendar year, Hazell was back London as well as the function of Kay in the successful Charlie Female. Among various other meaty assignments she performed well in the past due 60s was that of Mrs. Peachum inside a revival from the Beggar’s Opera (1968). The next year she is at the unsuccessful Ann Veronica but returned to the very best with the part of Golde in the London creation of Fiddler ON THE TOP. Hazell died all of a sudden, unintentionally choking to loss of life.