Mame [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
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Composer: Jerry HermanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
- Mame, musical: Main title...including 'St. Bridget'
- Mame, musical: It's Today
- Mame, musical: Open a New Window
- Mame, musical: The Man in the Moon
- Mame, musical: My Best Girl
- Mame, musical: We Need a Little Christmas
- Mame, musical: Mame
- Mame, musical: Loving You
- Mame, musical: The Letter
- Mame, musical: Bosom Buddies
- Mame, musical: Gooch's Song
- Mame, musical: If He Walked Into My Life
- Mame, musical: Finale (Open A New Window / Mame)
Free Music Notes for Mame [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Free Music Review: who cares if she can't sing...it's LUCY!
Hit: 4 Stars
MAME was one of the top musicals of the 1966 Broadway season, cementing Angela Lansbury as a musical theatre star to be reckoned with, and earning her the first of several Tony Award's. Lansbury campaigned heavily to reprise the role of Mame Dennis in the Warner Bros. film version, though producers said she didn't have the box office clout (a laughable notion, considering that Lansbury started out in the movies and only segued into theatre quite late into her career!). Lucille Ball gamely stepped up to the plate, middle-aged and with no singing voice to speak of (she had starred on Broadway in WILDCAT but its run was notorious for Ball's frequent illnesses and vocal problems).
If there were any qualms about Ball being miscast, they were kept quiet. Madeline Kahn was originally announced for the role of frumpy secretary Agnes Gooch, but Ball was afraid the trained opera-singer would steal the picture. After considering Ruth Buzzi, producers resorted to Jane Connell, who had played the role in the 1966 original cast. Likewise, Bea Arthur thankfully got to reprise her Tony-winning role of boozy barb Vera Charles, with Broadway favorite Robert Preston (THE MUSIC MAN) as Mame's loving Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. Cherubic little Kirby Furlong played the young Patrick Dennis.
Jerry Herman simplified all Mame's numbers in order to accommodate for Ball's shortcomings. The score for the film version of MAME is vastly different to what audiences heard during the show's almost 5-year run on Broadway. The Overture now included Gooch's number "St. Bridget", and Mame's introductory number "It's Today" isn't the brassy showstopper it should be. Apparently in order to get the most out of Ball's voice, an electronic device was implemented to adjust her pitch and so forth, during the recording of the numbers. This is glaringly obvious on this reissue of the soundtrack, where her voice often sounds overdubbed or multi-tracked. Jane Connell gives a splendid reading of "Gooch's Song" (perhaps even better than on the OBC) and Bea Arthur is at the peak of her formidable musical talents. Robert Preston is heartbreaking with "Loving You", the only new number written especially for the film by Jerry Herman. Apart from the odd lyric-change, the numbers are almost exactly the same (the only glaring omission is Mame's Act 2 showstopper "That's How Young I Feel", though given Ball's musicality, perhaps it was a mountain she'd preferred not to have tackled).
This Collector's Choice reissue is the same as the limited edition Rhino Handmade disc.
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