"It's actually a better show than DOLLY with a better score and alot more heart and less silliness.."
I disagree. I think both shows have their share of heart and "silliness" (if that's the right word for it, and I don't think it is).
I used to love MAME, and still love a lot of it, but sadly, I think much of the humor in it has aged very badly. I do think the whole Peckerwood sequence is very problematic today, even though it was obviously intended as highly satirical from the beginning, because the satire has a very different ring to it in the present time. But, as I've said before, I think even more problematic is all of the intended humor involving Gooch's unwed pregnancy, which just DOES NOT work anymore. Not for me, anyway.
P.S. I've seen the Broadway revival with Lansbury, the Paper Mill production with Ebersole, the Kennedy Center production with Baranski, and one or two community theater productions over the years. |
