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The bonus tracks include demo versions of "St. Bridget", "It's Today", "Open a New Window", and "Mame", as well as the song "Camouflage" (intended to be sung between Mame Dennis and Vera Charles prior to the discussion of whether Patrick could stay with Mame), all performed by Jerry Herman and Alice Borden.

[4][5][3][6], Herman has stated it took six months to write the score.[7]. Eydie Gormé had a huge success with her recording of "If He Walked into My Life",[29] for which she received a 1967 Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance. [25] The Kennedy Center production ran from June 1, 2006 to July 2, and starred Christine Baranski as Mame, Harriet Sansom Harris as Vera, and Emily Skinner as Gooch.[26]. Update: Broadway Shutdown Extends Through May 2021. After seven previews, it opened on July 24, 1983 at the George Gershwin Theatre,[19] where it ran for only 41 performances.

"We Need a Little Christmas" is a well known holiday tune and can be heard in several Disney Christmas parades.

[22], A production ran at the Alex Theatre, Glendale, California in April 1994, starring Juliet Prowse as Mame,[23]

[10][11], Celeste Holm, who played the role on Broadway for two weeks when Lansbury took a vacation, continued in the role in the first National Tour.

According to Stephen Citron, in Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune, the "kudos [for Auntie Mame] made all involved immediately think of musicalizing the play.

When Lansbury left the Broadway production she led a second limited tour that played in San Francisco starting in April 1968 and also played Los Angeles. The musical was inspired by the success of the 1956 Broadway comedy and subsequent 1958 film version starring Rosalind Russell, as well as the 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis. Mame loses her fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and tries her hand at a number of jobs with comically disastrous results but perseveres with good humor and an irrepressible sense of style.

The trustees of Patrick's father force Mame to send Patrick off to boarding school (the fictional St Boniface, in Massachusetts), and Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon that stops when Beau falls to his death while mountain climbing. Mame returns home a wealthy widow to discover that Patrick has become a snob engaged to an equally priggish debutante, Gloria Upson, from a bigoted family.

Gretchen Wyler as Vera and Marsha Kramer as Gooch. (uncredited), Dancer in 'Charleston' Number [12][13][14], The Australian production presented by J.C. Williamson's opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne on May 25, 1968, and subsequently played seasons in Adelaide, Perth and Sydney. It ran for a fourteen-month engagement at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a special performance for Queen Elizabeth II.

They cope with the Depression in a series of adventures. (Broadway musical) & Robert E. Lee ... (Broadway musical) and Jerry Herman ... (Broadway musical) Patrick Dennis ... (novel) Jerome Lawrence ... (stage play 'Auntie Mame') (as Lawrence) and Robert E. … [24], The Paper Mill Playhouse (Millburn, New Jersey), produced the musical in September and October 1999, starring Christine Ebersole and Kelly Bishop as "Vera Charles".

Official Sites Despite the presence of Lansbury, a much-heralded Broadway revival was ultimately unsuccessful. Set in New York City and spanning the Great Depression and World War II, it focuses on eccentric bohemian Mame Dennis, whose famous motto is "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death. | It was both a US box office failure and a critical disappointment with Lucille Ball being considered not up to the musical demands of the title role. Susan Hayward appeared in the Las Vegas production, while such stars as Ann Sothern, Janet Blair, Jane Russell, Elaine Stritch, Edie Adams, Patrice Munsel, Kitty Carlisle, Carol Lawrence, Shani Wallis, Juliet Prowse and Sheila Smith have appeared in stock, regional or touring productions. Weaver, David E. Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, "Mame’s Boys: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee", "Arrabal Play to Open on Coast Before Broadway - Ball of San Francisco Group to Adapt and Stage Comedy - Troupe to Share in Profits - 'Mame' Takes to Road", "Victor Woolf Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos", "Stage: Angela Lansbury Stars In 'Mame' Revival", "Theater Review: 'Mame' Loses Its Kick in Alex Staging", "Bosom Buddies Bow: Paper Mill's 'Mame' Officially Opens Sept. 11", "Christine Baranski 'Mame' Will Not Play Broadway", https://hopemilltheatre.co.uk/events/mame/, https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-MAME-at-the-Hope-Mill-Theatre-20191002, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cats: Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording, Les Misérables: The Complete Symphonic Recording, Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs Of Leiber And Stoller, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mame_(musical)&oldid=984076343, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Open a New Window" − Mame, Young Patrick, and Company, "The Moon Song" (The Man in the Moon) − Vera, Mame, and Company, "The Fox Hunt" − Uncle Jeff, Young Patrick, Cousin Fan, and Mother Burnside, Finale Act I ("My Best Girl" and "Mame") − Young Patrick and Company, "Opening Act Two" (The Letter) − Young Patrick and Older Patrick, "That's How Young I Feel" − Mame, Junior, and Company, "It's Today" (reprise) − Mame and Company, Finale Act II ("Open A New Window") − All, Curtain Calls ("It's Today", "We Need a Little Christmas" and "Mame") − All, This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 01:04.
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"Sons of bitches" was changed to "suckers" in the film version.

[9] In 1985, Pinal reprised the production with the Spanish actress María Rivas as Vera.

Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death."
In 1958, a film titled Auntie Mame, based on the play, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures, once again starring Rosalind Russell in the title role. Company Credits