Review of the Play Mame
Dramatic Criticism for "Mame" On November 7th, 2002 I attended the Musical Theater West Production of "Mame" at the Long Beach Carpenter Center. Mame is very well off. She lives in New York at the peak of the Twenties, and is surprised by a "wonderful present": an orphan Now, ten-year-old Patrick needs his aunt, and this is something new for Mame- to be needed. It changes her life. It brings her into sharp conflict with her best friend, Vera Charles, a multi-martini grande dame of the legitimate theater-for Vera can't stand children. The man Mame is about to marry is perfectly willing to take on the boy as a bonus, but Mame doesn't think she'll have time for marriage-"I'll be too busy The boy's nanny, Agnes Gooch, doesn't approve of those irrepressible things which go on in Mame's Beekman Place apartment, and yet she inevitably falls under her spell. Eye to eye, toe to toe, Mame battles Babcock, the snooty banker who wants
younger kids. The audience consisted of kids from 6 to 60 with an emphasis on the 6. ick the prisoner of the Establishment and put the chains of than the character Mame, but that was not the problem. She sang the right notes she costumes, makeup, and the mechanics all played together very well. The sets gave Struthers. The audience seemed to respond well to the child who played Patrick. conformity around him. With the balloon burst of the Depression, it looks as if
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