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#1

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 7:10pm

Following the lead of the ANNIE thread...

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...

Re-Interpreting MAME


Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 5/24/10 at 07:10 PM

#2

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 7:45pm

Or the actress playing Mame can take the Douglas Hodge approach and deconstruct the character to death.

Mame will now be a slightly self-loathing, dim-witted hedonist who under-plays everything.

Alcoholic too perhaps.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
#3

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 7:48pm

Keep going, Almira, you're digging a hole that's getting deeper and deeper. Soon you'll find yourself mired in oblivion.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#4

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 7:57pm

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
#5

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:34pm

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.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#6

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:39pm

*chuckles*

I love it. MAME is now black box drug-induced hallucination!

Don't be surprised, theaterkid1015, when The Menier Chocolate Factory does that next season!

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 5/24/10 at 08:39 PM

#7

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:42pm

Although....a house with only two chairs and Hugh Jackman might not be all that bad.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#8

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:45pm

Jackman would be great.. but wasted.. Beau is a pretty thankless role.

I think...


Vera should be re-conceived has a hardcore lesbian secretly lusting after Gooch!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 5/24/10 at 08:45 PM

#9

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:45pm

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.
#10

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:46pm

I'm waiting for them to do the never-gonna-happen revival of SUGAR!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
#11

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:47pm

No, Hugh Jackman just plays Hugh Jackman in Mame's House, a role created specifically for this production. He's also the orchestra.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#12

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:49pm

LOL!!!!

I get it.. sorta like Che in EVITA. Jackman just hangs around all night.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Updated On: 5/24/10 at 08:49 PM

#13

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:51pm

With Ke$ha as Vera Charles, to draw in the youngins.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#14

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 8:52pm

Jackman hums the score while Mame sings. It'd be a show-stopper. The minute he stops to take a breath... the show stops!
#15

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 9:06pm

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

Updated On: 5/24/10 at 09:06 PM

#16

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 11:34pm

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.
#17

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/24/10 at 11:53pm

Perhaps Mame sexually abuses Patrick, and shares him with her friends. Bosom Buddies is actually sung in front of him, whilst the ladies are topless.
#18

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 12:33am

"Whilst," Phyllis? When did you become Madonna?
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
#19

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 1:02am

Wait, wait, what was I thinking? Naturally:

Mame: Madonna
Vera: Cyndi Lauper
Gooch: Gaga
Hugh Jackman in Mame's House/The Orchestra: Hugh Jackman
Beau: Highly Respected British Stage Actor
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

Updated On: 5/25/10 at 01:02 AM

#20

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 3:21am

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.
#21

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 7:44am

Lucille Ball's singing was a horrible enough re-interpretation...
#22

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 8:02am

I'm sorry, but this whole thread is a lot of crap, especially when read at 8:00 in the morning. And, yes I do have a sense of humor. After 10 am.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#23

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 10:42am

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
#24

Re-Interpreting MAME

Posted: 5/25/10 at 11:59am

Gypsy9, I promise you that all of this is supposed to be a load of crap.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

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