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The
Stage:
MAME
| "Once
Mary Martin had turned down the title
role in Mame, some 40 other actresses
had to be eliminated before the part went
to Angela Lansbury - who quickly established
herself as one of the reigning queens
of Broadway." [Stanley Green] |
Mame
was launched on Broadway on May 24, 1966.
For this musical, Angela won a Tony Award
as the best musical actress of the
year.
She played Mame
for 418 performances and then took the show on
a national tour.
Book by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Based on the novel
by Patrick Dennis and the play Auntie Mame
by Lawrence and Lee.
Martin Gottfried
(*) wrote: "It was at the Winter Garden Theatre,
where Mame was playing previews, that
Angela finally got to have a star dressing room
on Broadway.".
This shows how Mame brings fame to Angela:
it was the great musical for the GREATEST actress!
She conquered Broadway in the part of a great,
vivacious force of nature: this is one of the
classic tales of show business, and Gottfried
recounts its drama in rich detail.
Mame
- Song list:
St. Bridget
It's Today
It's Today (Reprise #1)
Open A New Window
The Moon Song
My Best Girl
We Need A Little Christmas
We Need A Little Christmas (Reprise)
The Fox Hunt
Mame
Finale - Act I
Opening Act II
My Best Girl (Reprise)
Bosom Buddies
Bosom Buddies (Reprise)
Gooch's Song
That's How Young I Feel
If He Walked Into My Life
It's Today (Reprise #2)
Finale - Act II
Music
and lyrics by Jerry Herman.
Directed
by Gene Saks.
Opened at the
Winter Garden Theatre, New York
City, on May 24, 1966
Cast:
Angela Lansbury as Mame Dennis.
Beatrice Arthur, Jane Connell, Willard Waterman,
Frankie Michaels, Sab Shimono, Charles Braswell,
Jerry Lanning, George Coe, Diana Walker, John
C. Becher, Johanna Douglas, Diana Coupe.
Tony Awards
won 1966:
Actress (Musical): Angela Lansbury
Actor, Supporting or Featured (Musical):
Frankie Michaels
Actress, Supporting or Featured (Musical):
Beatrice Arthur
Nominations:
Director (Musical): Gene Saks
Musical: Jerome Lawrence
Musical: Robert E. Lee
Musical: Jerry Herman
Composer and Lyricist: Jerry Herman
Scenic Designer: William Eckart
Scenic Designer: Jean Eckart
Coreographer: Onna White
The musical:
A genteel woman is forced to take a nine-to-five
job to pay the bills and is humiliated at being
dismissed because of incompetence. Mame, rendered
penniless by the 1929 stock market crash, tries
one job after another with catastrophic results
until she meets and marries the wealthy Beauregard
Jackson Picket Burnside. [...]
[ Find out more about Mame reading "Angela
Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen",
written by Rob Edelman and Audrey E. Kupferberg
]
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