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...MAME was hilarious in a book, ebullient in a play, a delight on the screen, and in this musical she can sing and dance too. Angela Lansbury plays the most famous aunt since Jemima, with a winning mixture of the maternal...
...MAME is more lavish entertainment than outstanding 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...
...spent most of her career typecast as a termagant, came forward in Manhattan's Rainbow Room and accepted the American Theater Wing's Tony Award as the best musical actress of the season. "Up to now, I've always been such a good nominee," the whacky Mame wept happily. Some of the other winners: Richard Kiley, 44, judged the best musical actor for his Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; Rosemary Harris, 38, best dramatic actress, in The Lion in Winter; Hal Holbrook, 41, best dramatic actor, for Mark Twain Tonight; and sardonic Producer David Merriclc...
...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...
...complained last year. "I must stop playing bitches on wheels-and people's mothers. One of these days I'd like to get my hands on a part in which I can hit many chords." She did at last, with Mame, but only after the producers wrote off a pack of other candidates -Mary Martin, Patrice Munsel, Jane Morgan, Tammy Grimes, Ann Sothern...