Sutton would read to young to play as by the end of the musical mame has to read about fifty or older but she has to be young enough or look young enough to be a 'vibrant young thing' in the twenties but as this is the smaller part of the show there is wiggle room. Plus the fact that casting mame usually spews about fourty or fifty. Mame: Jan Maxwell, Bette Midler, bernadette peters or faith prince even. Vera: Faith prince without a doudt. Agnes Gooch: Sutton foster would be good as gooch i think Beau: Tom wopat.
I'd really like to see Laura Benanti play Fosca in Passion.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad