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...rightful inheritance of family leadership and at least (pounds)30 million, or kill him in the process. She rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous to be as thin as that! It is idiotic!" His frail physique does not prevent Mama from administering energetic corporal punishment. Castleton, who finds he cannot help loving the ridiculous Dauphin, grows increasingly alarmed: "Christ, she does wade into the poor little...
...taken over for Allen, Clark got on her bad side. She favored his transfer from the White House to the Interior Department--a push that proved unnecessary, as it happened, when Clark volunteered to go. One disgruntled former Administration official called the trio of Nancy Reagan, Deaver and Baker "Mama and the Gold Dust Twins." But the First Lady does not always get her way. When Clark became Interior Secretary, she wanted Baker to replace Clark as National Security Adviser, with Deaver becoming White House chief of staff. The plan foundered, however, when it was opposed by Administration conservatives, particularly...
...both sides of the footlights, Mama is very much a family affair. The audience is composed largely of black families in their Sunday best, and onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy Higginsen (Troy's sister) and Kenneth Wydro (Higginsen's husband); Higginsen frequently plays the narrator, and her brother Randy plays the minister. After the rousing curtain call, Randy moves to the theater exit and, ever the good shepherd, greets the congregation as it leaves...
...Mama has been running to jubilant houses for almost two years, thanks to some irresistible entrepreneurship: records, T shirts and key chains are available in the lobby; church groups have bused in from other East Coast cities; and in the middle of Act II everything stops for a commercial for the show ("Now you can charge it!"). This feel-good musical should keep running too, as long as anyone's soul wants to sing...
...MAMA I WANT TO SING. Amateur night in Harlem, or heaven (see story above...