Who would I like to see play MAME? — Page 2

Sweet lips, Collette has done Broadway and starred in a a Broadway musical, The Wild Party, for which she was nominated for a Tony.

Updated On: 1/27/19 at 09:43 PM

So many of the suggestions are so damned old. Mame is vivacious, and it would be a damned shame if she cant at least do the kicks that Lansbury did. How about:

-- Anne Hathaway

-- Emily Blunt

-- Don't disagree with Sutton Foster

-- Jane Krakowski is a featured performer, not a star. Mame needs a star to have any chance of success

-- Please no on Midler, Murphy, Peters, Ebersole...I love two of them, but they are in the too old category.

-- Collette sounds interesting; IMO she is at the upper end of the age that I want to see in that role

-- Since I am pretty convinced that she can do anything, I like the Audra idea. She has warmth, the voice, the glamour.,etc.

-- Can Cate Blanchett sing??? Doubt she'd ever commit to a long run on Broadway, but she had the charisma, can do comedy, pathos, could do great justice to the clothes that will be required.

Producer2 said: "ANDREA MCARDLE!!!!!!!!"



shes has played the role before.



https://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelphia/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-Andrea-McArdle-and-Lea-DeLaria-in-MAME-at-Bucks-County-Playhouse-20130503

Queen Latifah as "Mame" and MoNique as "Vera".

David10086 said: "Megan Mullally as 'Mame'

Sean Hayes as 'Vera'"

Yes. Megan. Love it.

There's a disconnect between the Mame of the book, the perceived Mame of the play, and the Mame in the public consciousness. The Mame people think of today is a "woman of a certain age," analogous to Dolly Levi and the idealized fusion of the nurting auntie a young gay boy would have wanted, and the fabulous dame that same boy might fantasize about being.

But the Mame on the written page in Patrick Dennis's novels is younger, sexier, more morally ambivalent. While she was "middle-aged" in the 1920s and 1930s, she ages from 35 to 50 over the course of the two books. She's what they would have called a "college widow" in that era, and today would be graciously called a cougar and bluntly called a milf. When I read the novels, Julie Bowen was my obvious Auntie Mame in my head: the perfect mix of the warmth, the coldness, the sex, the farce of it all. Does she sing, though? I doubt it.

I second Loretta Swit

Producer2 said: "JBradshaw....I'd love to see Andrea Mcardle play it on Broadway, in fact I recently spoke to her after her show at 54 Below and she wants to play the part on Broadway as well!!!!!!!!"

Andrea Mcardle!? ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz



Toni Collette is MAME on BWAY and Lea DeLaria as Vera.

Updated On: 1/28/19 at 03:33 PM

noradesmond said: "Jarethan said: "So many of the suggestions are so damned old. Mame is vivacious, and it would be a damned shame if she cant at least do the kicks that Lansbury did. How about:

-- Anne Hathaway

-- Emily Blunt

-- Don't disagree with Sutton Foster

-- Jane Krakowski is a featured performer, not astar. Mame needs a star to have any chance of success

-- Please no on Midler, Murphy, Peters, Ebersole...I love two of them, but they are in the too old category.

-- Collette sounds interesting; IMO she is at the upper end of the age that I want to see in that role

-- Since I am pretty convinced that she can do anything, I like the Audra idea. She has warmth, the voice, the glamour.,etc.

-- Can Cate Blanchett sing??? Doubt she'd ever commit to a long run on Broadway, but she had the charisma, can do comedy, pathos, could do great justice to the clothes that will be required.

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Sutton Foster, yes, I like. Not so sure about Anne Hathaway, though.

Cate Blanchett would be brilliant, if she can sing.

Emily Blunt is an interesting idea but I would much rather see her (in a few years) as Desiree Armfeldt."



Your last recommendation is brilliant; but as long as we are hoping, why not hope for her in something soonish and ALNM in anywhere from 10 to 20 years from now (although nature may force me to miss the latter).

DMsquared2 said: "My vote goes to Megan Mulally."

I have to agree. Best suggestion in the thread. And, as anyone who has her solo albums knows, she is a FIERCE singer!

Though I wasn't a big YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN fan, Mullaley was sensational onstage. A big presence with a huge, terrific voice. She's the exact right type to pull of a madcap sophisticate who eschews having children only to find that she melts into the role of being Patrick's Auntie Mame. She would nail every last bit of comedy (and probably find laughs that might not even be there, as she does on Will & Grace) and she can deliver on the vulnerability needed to bring the house down on If He Walked Into My Life.

Jarethan said: "So many of the suggestions are so damned old. Mame is vivacious, and it would be a damned shame if she cant at least do the kicks that Lansbury did. How about:

-- Anne Hathaway

-- Emily Blunt

-- Don't disagree with Sutton Foster

-- Jane Krakowski is a featured performer, not astar. Mame needs a star to have any chance of success

-- Please no on Midler, Murphy, Peters, Ebersole...I love two of them, but they are in the too old category.

-- Collette sounds interesting; IMO she is at the upper end of the age that I want to see in that role

-- Since I am pretty convinced that she can do anything, I like the Audra idea. She has warmth, the voice, the glamour.,etc.

-- Can Cate Blanchett sing??? Doubt she'd ever commit to a long run on Broadway, but she had the charisma, can do comedy, pathos, could do great justice to the clothes that will be required."

Blanchett would be a fabulous MAME if she sang, but you curiously suggest Collette, three years younger than Blanchett, is almost aged out of the role.

As for Collette not having an interesting enough voice, really? REALLY!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv8iwpWRdAs

A Collette/Delaria Mame/Vera is bonkers - and kind of wonderful.

But my dream casting would be Kristen Johnston as Vera to Collette's Mame.

Updated On: 2/1/19 at 06:40 AM