| re: IS "MAME" NOW UNPRODUCABLE DUE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE? |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 05:05 pm EDT 08/17/17 |
| Posted by: Chromolume 05:02 pm EDT 08/17/17 |
| In reply to: re: IS "MAME" NOW UNPRODUCABLE DUE TO CHARLOTTESVILLE? - Michael_Portantiere 04:23 pm EDT 08/17/17 |
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Michael - I agree with you in general. To be honest, I didn't know Mame well until I was out of college and doing some rehearsal accompaniment work for a local production. This would have been in the late 1980's. I knew the big songs, of course, but not the book at all. I was completely underwhelmed. I found a lot of the humor more "precious" than actually funny, and was wondering even back then if the Peckerwood scene really worked anymore. (Let alone with that awful Fox Hunt song, one of Herman's very unsuccessful attempts at a counterpoint number.)
The genuine humor in songs like "Bosom Buddles" shines without the tepid book along with it. And though I do hear what you're saying about Gooch's situation, I do think "Gooch's Song" is deservedly funny. But those songs (and the other wonderful songs in the score) can and do live on without productions of the show.
Even though Dolly was written earlier, somehow Mame feels much more old-fashioned to me - and not in a good way. |
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