Could Mame work as a play?
Could Mame work as a play?
#0Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:29pmWell, could it?
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#1re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:39pm
Please tell me this is a joke.
Auntie Mame is the play Mame is based on.
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#2re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:39pm
Um, I think that you MUST be joking, but just in case you're not, "Mame" began life as a best-selling novel by Patrick Dennis, and, a couple of years later, was adapted into a very successful play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee starring Rosalind Russell. The property was then adapted into a popular film with Russell. There are many who find the musical inferior to the original play.
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#3re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:42pm
LOL
I started to answer this, then I saw.
#4re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:44pmI'm one of the people who find the musical way inferior to the play. The play is incredible.
#5re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 6:57pmSouth Fl Marc, there are many people who think the play is superior to the musical. So you are definitely not alone.
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#6re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:15pm
I never saw the play but I did see the movie with Rosalind Russell and the musical with Angela Lansbury. I liked the movie version much better as I thought the relationship between Patrick and Auntie Mame was better portrayed.
#7re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:46pmmy God where to these people come from, Bratislava, Slovakia???
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#9re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 7:48pmNo. "Auntie Mame" was huge there.
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#10re: Could Mame work as a play?
Posted: 10/15/05 at 8:49pmi think i like the play more than the musical
