Susan Jane Tanner

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Susan Jane Tanner (or Sue Jane Tanner) is an English theatre actress, best known for playing the role of Madame Thénardier in the original London cast of Les Misérables and Jellylorum in the original London version of Cats. She reprised her role in the 1998 video version. Tanner also spent a season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with roles including Audrey in As You Like It and Mrs Peacham in The Beggar's Opera.

She currently lives in Dorset with her husband.

Selected works

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Year ! Production ! Role ! Original theatre
1981 \| Cats \| Jellylorum and Griddlebone \| New London Theatre
1983 \| All's Well That Ends Well \| Violenta \| Martin Beck Theatre
1985 \| Les Misérables \| Mme. Thénardier \| Barbican Theatre
1990 \| As You Like It \| Jacques \| Everyman Theatre, Liverpool{{cite book\|author=Stanley Wells\|title=Shakespeare Survey\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkfgdVspGQsC&pg=PA145\|accessdate=15 May 2020\|date=28 November 2002\|publisher=Cambridge University Press\|isbn=978-0-521-52384-4\|pages=145–}}
1996 \| Martin Guerre \| Madame De Rols \| Prince Edward Theatre
2000 \| Hard Times (musical) \| Miss Fidget/Mrs Sparsit \| Theatre Royal Haymarket{{cite book\|author=Adrian Wright\|title=A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcKIhZ8HiGYC&pg=PA260\|accessdate=15 May 2020\|year=2010\|publisher=Boydell & Brewer\|isbn=978-1-84383-542-4\|pages=260–}}
2008 \| Gone with the Wind \| Aunt Pittypat \| New London Theatre

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Year

! Production

! Role

! Original theatre

1981

| Cats

| Jellylorum and Griddlebone

| New London Theatre

1983

| All's Well That Ends Well

| Violenta

| Martin Beck Theatre

1985

| Les Misérables

| Mme. Thénardier

| Barbican Theatre

1990

| As You Like It

| Jacques

| Everyman Theatre, Liverpool{{cite book|author=Stanley Wells|title=Shakespeare Survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkfgdVspGQsC&pg=PA145|accessdate=15 May 2020|date=28 November 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52384-4|pages=145–}}

1996

| Martin Guerre

| Madame De Rols

| Prince Edward Theatre

2000

| Hard Times (musical)

| Miss Fidget/Mrs Sparsit

| Theatre Royal Haymarket{{cite book|author=Adrian Wright|title=A Tanner's Worth of Tune: Rediscovering the Post-war British Musical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcKIhZ8HiGYC&pg=PA260|accessdate=15 May 2020|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-542-4|pages=260–}}

2008

| Gone with the Wind

| Aunt Pittypat

| New London Theatre