Mame [US Tour, 1st National Tour, 1968] Vera Charles
So Playbill is probably legit, but not from Broadway.
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[threadbump] I know people who swore they saw her on Broadway as Vera somewhere between 1966 and 1969. Anyone else know if she was indeed in the NY production?
Updated On: 10/9/11 at 12:35 AM
^ If she did play it, it would have been for maybe a week. I know she and Janet Blair did tour together, but I am 99.9% positive she never did it on Broadway.
I believe there was a production, not sure if it was a tour or summer stock, with Elaine Stritch and Bea Arthur where they swapped roles every night.
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Except for the movie, I don't think Arthur ever played the role again after she left the Broadway production. Arthur apparently had been considered for the role of Mame when they were still having trouble casting it. Or at least Gene Saks was trying to make them consider her.
Perhaps Goth is thinking of the story Stritch has told — which may or may not be true — that she and Garland would joke about alternating as Mame and Vera.
Stritch did later play Mame in stock after having played Vera on tour with Janet Blair.
The two main Broadway Veras after Arthur were Anne Francine and Audrey Christie.
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Maybe Stritch had been tippling when she told me that or maybe she got mixed up and said Bea Arthur when she meant someone else. But that's what I heard from the Stritch's mouth. She has been known to fudge the truth just a wee bit.
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I'm sure you were drunk when she told you that, Goth.
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