MAME at Goodspeed...

[AHTC]

Posted: 11/2/11 at 8:27pm

next year....

[staunchcharacter]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 4:49am

I'm interested. Do we know who's mame?

[raulmark]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 7:28am

cool. did Goodspeed it's season for next year already? I saw Big River, Funny Thing...Forum & Annie Get your Gun there. Quality shows and it's a nice drive

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 8:56am

Exciting! Should be a good one. Any confirmation on this (or other Goodspeed shows)?

I said this last week on here somewhere but Donna McKechnie would make a killer Mame, even though she's a little long in the tooth now, I think she could pull it off.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 11:16am

I vote for Bebe Newirth, or Donna Murphy as Mame
Vanessa Williams if the other two aren't available.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 11:28am

Bebe and Donna are both Vera's. Can you really say you'd trust Bebe "Ice Queen" Neuwirth with a child?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 11:31am

How about Rachel York? I think she's more believable as an actual casting choice given that Goodspeed doesn't often get big names to headline their shows.

Donna is unquestionably a Mame. Anyone who saw her in ANYONE CAN WHISTLE can attest she would be sensational in the role. But probably unlikely she would be doing a stock production.
Updated On: 11/3/11 at 11:31 AM

[dreaming]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 11:34am

I think Rachel York will get it. She's a Goodspeed veteran. The only way they can get someone like Donna Murphy or Bebe Neuwirth is if they label it a pre-Broadway production.

[random person 112]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 4:23pm

Yes but i could see Donna coming on just to play the role, and if she's good in this and they can find a big name for vera just in case...

[dreaming]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 4:33pm

Random person 112-from your lips (or keyboard) to the producers' ears.

Has any show from Goodspeed ever transferred to Broadway?? Updated On: 11/3/11 at 04:33 PM

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 5:34pm

Donna has a young daughter; I think its pretty unlikely she would do Goodspeed, but you never know.

Lots of shows have started at Goodspeed - mainly "Annie," "Man of La Mancha" and "Shenendoah" but I don't think any were direct transfers - and of course all these were a long time ago.

[random person 112]

Posted: 11/3/11 at 6:26pm

^yes michael, that's why she would do it she wants to take a break from broadway and summer stock is defnitly a break from broadway...

[goldenboy]

Posted: 11/5/11 at 1:00pm

I vote for Bebe Neuwith. She would shine.

[AC126748]

Posted: 11/5/11 at 1:04pm

Someone previously mentioned (on the PAL JOEY thread, I believe) that Murphy doesn't go out of town unless the show has a guarantee that it's coming to New York. So, we can probably cross her off the list for this one.

I'd love to see Emily Skinner do it. I remember watching her in the Kennedy Center production several years ago and thinking, "Why is Mame playing Gooch?"

[jovie27]

Posted: 11/5/11 at 1:12pm

Kirstie Alley will play MAME!
Updated On: 11/5/11 at 01:12 PM

[morosco]

Posted: 11/5/11 at 1:55pm

I'd love to see Beth Leavel as Mame. She'd be a hoot!

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 11/5/11 at 3:24pm

I still think Hariett Harris , an excellent Vera opposite Christine Baranski in Washington, would be amazing as Mame.