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November
3
Thursday,
7:30 pm
Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman (Mainstage Productions)
$25 - $30 adult; $21 - $26 student
Includes all tax & fees.
TO BE HELD AT THE CALDWELL HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
3401 S Indiana Ave. (Take the Nampa/Caldwell Boulevard which goes past the Albertson College of Idaho, turn on Indiana at the edge of the campus and follow Indiana to the high school. Alternate route: Take Karcher Road and turn on Indiana which is across from the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.)
MAME is a lively, entertaining musical from Broadway’s golden age which is appropriate for all ages. Based on the 1956 play, Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis, this musical was written by composer and lyricist, Jerry Herman, along with playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee who adapted the novel for the Broadway stage. Rosalind Russell played the starring role. Mame ran
three years and eight months (1,508 performances)—a record at that time.
MAME is the story of the indestructible, irrepressible Auntie Mame, who is the center of a highly exclusive clique of playwrights, artists, journalists, and high society in New York City. She discovers quite suddenly that she is to be the guardian of her nephew, Patrick. That news and the stock crash of 1929 drastically changes her life. She turns to acting in a operetta in Connecticut, then a job as an inept manicurist at a very elegant barbershop. She meets a courtly Southern beau, Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, who falls madly in love with her. During their honeymoon, he accidentally falls off the Matterhorn while Mame is taking a photo of him. She returns to New York and is again a wealthy widow. Nephew Patrick in the meantime is engaged to an insipid society girl. Mame saves him from a disaster and encourages Patrick to renew the friendship with one of his former schoolmates. They fall deeply in love, marry and have a son of their own, who at age ten is whisked away on a round-the-world-adventure with his ever young, Great Auntie
Mame.
Songs include “Need a Little Christmas,” “Bosom Buddies,” “If He Walked Into My Life,” “That’s How Young I Feel,” and the rousing title song “Mame.”
This musical is large, raucous, colorful, and funny…with a lot of style.
The New Yorker
Learn
more about the production's cast and read a synopsis of scenes and
musical numbers. (PDF download)
www.mainstage-mgmt.com
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