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MAME is more lavish entertainment than great musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...
MAME (Columbia). The Broadway season's biggest musical hit has spawned a surefire original-cast recording. Jerry Herman's score repeats his Hello, Dolly! success, this time with Angela Lansbury instead of Carol Channing. The title song contains its own review: "You charm the husk right off of the corn...
With a record like that, Angela Lansbury surely must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie Mame who believes that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." But that is just what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). For those who can't get tickets to Broadway's latest hit-Mame-Angela Lansbury plays a different sort of swinging auntie in "The Deadly Toys Affair." Repeat...
...Broadway MAME is more lavish entertainment than a great musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto...