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...spoofs, and has spawned a national tour and satellite troupes from Los Angeles to London. In the new, eighth edition, everyone shines. Susanne Blakeslee zings Julie Andrews' singing on the Tony Awards in I Couldn't Hit That Note. Mary Denise Bentley skewers Tyne Daly's performance as Mama Rose in Gypsy. Herndon Lackey is a melodramatizing Topol in Fiddler on the Roof, and Jeff Lyons is Jackie Mason -- but more...
...Straight Out of Brooklyn, a heart cry from Matty Rich, 19, life crushes everyone. It has drained the teenage hero's father, who takes his bitterness out on the woman he loves. Daddy has whupped Mama so many times that her insides are on the outside. She wears her bruises like a badge of the black woman's burden. In one devastating montage, Rich shows a series of row houses, apartment courtyards, projects. From inside each one a man yells at a woman, and something breaks. It is enough to drive a decent boy like Dennis to grand theft...
...dancers are gay. To them she is a doting den mother, turning stern only when things get bitchy. It's a tough job, juggling dozens of fragile egos along with her armored one, but she has balls enough for everybody. The crew is her moody brood, and she is Mama Madonna, single parent...
...LOVE. When Errol Flynn died in 1959, he was traveling with starlet Beverly Aadland, who had been his mistress since she was 15. This chillingly believable Broadway play has as its sole character Beverly's mother Florence (unforgettably played by Tracey Ullman), a ferocious stage mama who would stop at nothing...
There actually was a cute little pig on Maupiti. It lived in a pen behind Mama Roro's, and on the third day we were there it was served for dinner in honor of a son's wedding. Accompanied by a delicious sweet squash dish, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my entire life...