Any "Mame" Rumors Lately?

[LansburyLuPone]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:43pm

I haven't visited this board for quite awhile so I'm just wondering: are there any new rumors about a new production of "Mame"? I keep hoping Jerry Herman really will mount a new production one of these days. Come on, Jerry - Open a New Window!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:45pm

No new rumours of an actual production, just the standard thread of "Who Should Play Mame? about once a month.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:46pm

Last I heard it was still something he wanted to do. Ask Dildopop, he's really close with Jerry Herman. He interviews him all the time.

[LansburyLuPone]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:49pm

I'd love to see QUEEN LATIFAH play "Mame." That would certainly amp up the Mother Burnside scene. Or Catherine Zeta-Jones as "Mame."

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 1:51pm

I'd like to see Kim Cattrall try it. Can she sing?

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:12pm

Any rumors about Mame? Okay, I'll see what I can do.

Um... I heard somebody saw Mame on her knees giving a woohoo to a large Mexican gentleman in a purple cape and Spiderman mask in Central Park last week.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:14pm

I'm not Mexican, I'm Jewish.

[darquegk]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:01pm

Perez Hilton recently reported that Mame was getting plastic surgery on her clownhole to remove what she tactfully refers to as "horse damage."

[BwayBoundJoe]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:08pm

"Perez Hilton recently reported that Mame was getting plastic surgery on her clownhole to remove what she tactfully refers to as "horse damage."

Guess that means Matthew Broderick (sp?) is going to be Mame in the upcoming revival?

[bryan2]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:41pm

Queen Latifah is the first great choice I have heard
she would fill the theaters and has just the amount of class and "street" that Mame Denis needs...wow I have never thought of her..that would certainly put a great spin on Mame

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:43pm

ANYWAY....


I'd love to see Kristin Chenoweth as Gooch. Only if she promises to eat a couple cheeseburgers for they open.

[LansburyLuPone]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 3:46pm

Kristin Chenoweth would make a great Gooch!

[bryan2]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:05pm

Kristin is so damned skinny they could use her as a railing that Mame holds playing her bugle...come on girl eat something tooo pretty to be that skinny

[bryan2]

Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:05pm

Kristin is so damned skinny they could use her as a railing that Mame holds playing her bugle...come on girl eat something tooo pretty to be that skinny

[LansburyLuPone]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 10:44am

Queen Latifah as "Mame" and PATTI LUPONE as "Vera" - wouldn't that be the best combination in the history of the theater?

[noradesmond]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 12:26pm

I know we've been through this before but you can't really "color-blind" cast Mame. She's a wasp.

[denali.fire]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 2:10pm

Since there is the forum: "We are all sick of Lea Michele as Fanny Brice" Perhaps she can be Mame Dennis now! LOL!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 2:12pm

Queen Latifah as "Mame" and PATTI LUPONE as "Vera" - wouldn't that be the best combination in the history of the theater?

LuPone would NEVER play second fiddle to anyone like that. If LuPone is going to be in a production of Mame, she's going to play Mame, no matter how wrong for the role she might be.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 4:38pm

Queen Latifah isn't "lady-like" enough to play Mame. Jerry Herman insists that Mame be a "lady" first and foremost. I think that would rule out Patti as well.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/16/10 at 5:50pm

Charles Busch for Mame.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 7/17/10 at 7:28am

Re. colorblind casting of the part of Mame Dennis, she is certainly not a Wasp. Despite her using a Waspish attorney--Dwight Babcock--, she is adamant about not having her nephew marry into the hysterically typical Wasp family who live in prejudiced Westport, Connecticut. Mame is a liberal free spirit--anything goes!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:27am

Gypsy - actually, by the proper definition of the word - she is a WASP, which is why the Babcocks don't have a problem with their daughter marrying Mame's son. WASP refers to a a cultural/ethnic background - not a liberality gauge.

Adam - I actually disagree about LuPone ever playing second fiddle. She's said in interviews many times that she loves working in ensemble based shows - I think if you were to email her and ask if she would ever do a supporting role in a Broadway show she would almost certainly write you back and say - 'toots, if the role was a good one, of course."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/17/10 at 9:56am

MB, in shows like NOISES OFF, yes but do you really think she would actually take a part in a show built to showcase another actress? If the entire thing were an ensemble piece than I could easily see her doing it but if her name was below the title, I can't really see Miss Patti being down with that.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 7/17/10 at 11:06am

Michael Bennett: technically you are correct--WASP(WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROTESTANT) does refer to a cultural ethnic background. I know because I am a WASP. However, the connotation of WASP is the opposite of what Mame Dennis represents, a liberal free spirit if there ever was one. I would bet you that if you took a poll, the majority of WASPs would be conservative, maybe not the bigots that the Babcocks are, but certainly right leaning and all that represents. I guess I am the Mame Dennis kind of WASP that is in the minority.

[gcal]

Posted: 7/17/10 at 1:22pm

Allison Janney for Mame