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Performed At: The Duchess Theatre
During: October 2003 |
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Producer: David Hewitt
Technical Director: Christine Hewitt
Choreographer: Laurie Trott
Musical Director: Peter Cook
Based on the autobiography of Patrick Dennis
Screenplay: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Music and Lyrics: Jerry Herman
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Auntie Mame is well-to-do and lives in New York at the peak of the Twenties. She is surprised by the arrival of a “Wonderful Present”, an orphaned nephew named Patrick. Now ten-year–old Patrick needs his aunt, and being needed is something new for Mame, it changes her life. It brings her into sharp conflict with her best friend, Vera Charles, a multi-martini Grande Dame of the legitimate theatre - for Vera cannot stand children. The man Mame is about to marry is perfectly willing to take on the boy as a bonus, but Mame does not think she will have time for marriage “I’ll be too busy being a mother”.
The boy’s nanny Agnes Gooch does not approve of the irrepressible things that go on in Mame’s apartment, and yet inevitably she falls under Mame’s spell. With the onset of the depression, Mame loses all her money and as quickly as she finds jobs, she loses them. In a brief adventure as a manicurist, she meets Beau, a wealthy scion of The South. He takes Mame to his plantation to receive the begrudging approval of his family, who are astounded by her exploits on horseback. Whilst there, Beau sings her praises in the show’s bouncing title song “Mame”. He then duly proposes to her.
There is only one problem as the curtain falls on the first act. Young Patrick who has given Mame such joy and has provided a purpose in her life, smiles bravely but he is afraid he has lost his “Best Girl”.
Act two rushes headlong into the Thirties. Vera stands by her “Bosom Buddy” when Mame returns to her apartment after Beau’s sudden death. Patrick aged 19 is now in college. Lindsay Woolsey, Mame’s former suitor prompts her into writing her memoirs. Gooch has been trained at Secretarial School to type Mame’s pearls of wisdom. An experiment in sampling the wonders of a liberated life have unexpected results with Gooch coming home with more than she had bargained for.
The maturing Patrick seems to be slipping away from Mame’s ideal of freedom. When he declares his engagement to a fatuous blonde “with the IQ of a dead flashlight battery” Mame is in despair. What did she do wrong? What would she do differently “If he walked into my life today”? But the lady’s resources are endless and just as young Patrick rescued her from the shallow trap of the Twenties, she helps the boy to save himself from a life of dreary drabness and snobbery. Ingeniously, a decade later she has foiled the Establishment and life has moved on, not with Auntie Mame but with Great-Auntie Mame rescuing another youngster from the toils of conformity.
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| ACT I |
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Scene 1 |
Somewhere in New York, 1928 |
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"St. Bridget" |
Agnes and Young Patrick |
Scene 2 |
Mame's Apartment atop Beekman Place |
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"It's Today" |
Mame, Vera and Ensemble |
Scene 3 |
A Hallway in Mame's Apartment |
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Scene 4 |
Mame's Bedroom |
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Scene 5a |
Mame's Living Room |
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Scene 5b |
All Around New York |
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"Open a New Window" |
Mame, Patrick, Mr. Babcock and Ensemble |
Scene 6 |
Beekman Place Apartment |
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Scene 7 |
Shubert Theatre, New Haven |
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"The Moon Song" |
Vera, Mame and Girls |
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"My Best Girl" |
Mame and Young Patrick |
Scene 8 |
Salon Pour Messieurs |
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Scene 9 |
The Beekman Place Penthouse |
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"We Need a Little Christmas" |
Mame, Agnes, Ito and Young Patrick |
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"We Need a Little Christmas" (Reprise) |
Mame, Agnes, Ito, Young Patrick and Beauregard |
Scene 10 |
Portico and Front Lawn of Peckerwood |
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"The Fox Hunt" |
Uncle Jeff, Patrick, Cousin Fan, Mother Burnside, Sally Cato and Ensemble |
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"Mame" |
Beau, Mother Burnside, Mame and Ensemble |
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| ACT II |
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Scene 1 |
A Prep School-College Dorm and Singapore |
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"Dear Auntie Mame" |
Younger and Older Patrick |
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"My Best Girl" |
Older Patrick |
Scene 2 |
The Beekman Place Apartment
(Six Months Later) |
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"Bosom Buddies" |
Vera and Mame |
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"Bosom Buddies" (Reprise) |
Vera and Mame |
Scene 3 |
The Beekman Place Apartment
(Six Months Later) |
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"Gooch's Song" |
Agnes |
Scene 4 |
The Upson Barn |
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"The Darien Dip" |
Connecticut Kid Dancers |
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"That's How Young I Feel" |
Mame and Dancing Chorus |
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"If He Walked Into My Life" |
Mame |
Scene 5 |
The Beekman Place Apartment |
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"It's Today" |
Mame, Vera and Chorus |
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"My Best Girl" |
Older Patrick |
Scene 6 |
Beekman Place Apartment (1946) |
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"Open a New Window" |
Mame and Peter |
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