For the revival of MAME perhaps little Patrick can also wake up to find he is only a Depression era orphan having dreamt about a fabulous make-believe Aunt.
Just a thought...
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Well... if we are being completely honest.. posting on a broadway message board IS finding oneself "mired in oblivion."
anyway...
Don't get me wrong Dollypoop, I love MAME.. but I'm not a fundamentalist like yourself. I can actually have fun imagining what a crackpot director or actor might do with the material.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Mame is actually dirt poor. Her home contains two chairs and Hugh Jackman. However, using opium, she convinces everyone they're at a fabulous party. But, she's actually poor....and minimalist...and EDGY.
Tom Hanks as Mame and Peter Scolari as Vera. Now that's a show you can bank on.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Of course the whole thing could be turned upside down and told from Ito's point of view.
It could be a sort of Marxist revolt as we watch him slyly comment on Mame's useless and frivolous lifestyle. Or even better.. undermine Mame and her privileged cohorts.
I'm surprised that has been done yet!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
I heard of, but did not see, a production in which one man played Beau, Ito, and most of the other "little featured guy" parts. I know it involved a LOT of quick changes, several within a single song.
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Maybe Mame is like a Batman villain. You know, since they're often really upper-class socialites with heavily ironic names? She can maim people. That can be her gimmick.
Oh boy do I approve this thread :) especially Hugh Jackman as the orchestra.
I think they should set it in an insane asylum. An insane asylum on a cruiseship. Or at least, as it is dreamed up by Angela Lansbury.
And then with this production, they'd add a third act. And this third act would start out by taking us to a fictitious "Mame" rehearsal, where the lead actress is suddenly flung into the rapturous story of what happens to "Mame" after the original ending. Which of course makes her end up in a giant garden where a god-like figure named 33 tries to save her soul from evil. And at the very end (after the rape ballet) a large, white staircase will descend, and Mame will be killed by Patrick, who will be wearing a skimpy black negligee.
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George