Mame
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
6200 Atherton St Long Beach
6200 Atherton St Long Beach
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" That's the motto of Mame Dennis, one of musical theatre's all-time greatest heroines, in this brassy, tuneful, hilarious and touching adaptation of Patrick Dennis's bestseller, Auntie Mame. A Roaring Twenties socialite, Mame sets out to teach her orphaned nephew the nature of free living and free thinking, attempting to keep him from the clutches of the uptight world of his late father's estate executor and, later, his fiancée. One of Jerry Herman's most celebrated scores, it features the classics "Mame," "Open a New Window," "If He Walked into My Life" and "We Need a Little Christmas."
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