Mame (1966 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Columbia Records
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- St. Bridget
- It's Today
- Open A New Window
- The Man In The Moon
- My Best Girl
- We Need A Little Christmas
- Mame
- The Letter
- My Best Girl (Reprise)
- Bosom Buddies
- Gooch's Song
- That's How Young I Feel
- If He Walked Into My Life
- Finale
- St. Bridget--Jerry Herman and Alice Borden
- It's Today--Jerry Herman and Alice Borden
- Camouflage--Jerry Herman and Alice Borden
- Open a New Window--Jerry Herman and Alice Borden
- Mame--Jerry Herman and Alice Borden
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Free Music Review: But Darling! I'm Your Auntie Mame!
Hit: 5 Stars
The fictional character of Mame Dennis has been one of the most beloved figures in American entertainment. The Patrick Dennis novel AUNTIE MAME was a runaway bestseller of the 1950s. Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee quickly adapted the novel to the stage, where it became a smash with Rosalind Russell in the leading role. In 1958 Russell recreated her acclaimed performance for the screen, and the result was yet another smash.
In 1966 Jerry Herman, creator of such Broadway hits as the earlier HELLO DOLLY and the later LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, turned his attention to the Lawrence and Lee script. The result was MAME, and every musical actress jumped at the thought of playing the title role--including the legendary Judy Garland. In the end, however, it was Angela Lansbury who walked off with the role.
Lansbury was not an actress associated with musicals in the public mind, but the choice was not actually as radical as it may have seemed. Lansbury had a fair amount of dance and vocal training, and she had indeed made use of them on the screen. One of her earliest Hollywood films, TIL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY, featured her as star singer in an elaborate MGM musical number, and she had danced in such films as THE HARVEY GIRLS. In addition to all this, she also had considerable stage experience.
Needless to say, MAME opened to extremely positive reviews and ran close to five years on the New York stage--and to this day it remains an extremely popular choice for both professional and amateur theatres around the world. In addition to its memorable tale of an eccentric aunt unexpected saddled with her orphaned nephew, it has a remarkably memorable score, the sort that is easy to humm as you leave the theatre, plus some of the witty lyrics going. Just like the character of Mame Dennis, it is a charmer all the way.
The spotlight, of course, is on the character of Mame, who participates in no fewer than eight of fifteen songs. And whether it's the jazz-age "It's Today," the comic duet "Bosom Buddies," or the emotionally charged "If He Walked Into My Life Today," Lansbury's slightly brittle but powerful tones seem to capture something essential about the character that generations had come to know and love from previous incarnations.
The supporting cast is particularly fine, most notably Bea Arthur as the hard-drinking and adder-tongued Vera Charles; "The Man In The Moon" is a masterpiece of theatrical satire, and when Arthur and Landsbury team up for "Bosom Buddies" the result is one of the most screamingly funny things you'll ever hear. But whether it is "St. Bridget," "We Need A Little Christmas," "Gooch's Song," or "That's How Young I Feel," the whole thing is a delight from start to finish. And the remastering here is very, very good and the selections include several demos performed by Jerry Herman and Alice Borden for good measure.
Rosalind Russell was lucky: not only did she originate the role of Mame on Broadway in AUNTIE MAME, she repeated the role for film, and the result was a classic. Angela Lansbury was not; although Lansbury was eager to make the film, the role went to Lucille Ball instead. And controversy has raged ever since, for--for all her great talent--Ball was not and never had been a singer in any way, shape, or form, and the film failed largely due to her inability to carry the vocal demands of the score. Whatever your sentiments about Ball as Mame, it is a great loss that Angela Lansbury's performance was not preserved on film. This is as close as you can get, and it's a class act all the way. Recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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