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Goodspeed Musicals' new production of the musical Mame, starring Tony Award nominee Louise Pitre, opens May 9 at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. The run was recently extended by a week, to July 7.
The revival of the Tony Award-winning Jerry Herman musical, with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (based on their play Auntie Mame), began blowing its bugle April 20.
Pitre, the Canadian actress and concert star who was Tony Award-nominated for playing Donna in Mamma Mia! on Broadway, plays the life-embracing Auntie Mame.
She is joined by Eli Baker (Young Patrick), James Beaman (Woolsey), Judy Blazer (Vera), Paul Carlin (Babcock), Charles Hagerty (Older Patrick), James Lloyd Reynolds (Beau), Lucas Schultz (Peter), James Seol (Ito), Kirsten Wyatt (Agnes Gooch), Erin Denman (Sally Cato), Alan Gillespie, Beau Landry (Junior), Peter Leskowicz, Denise Lute (Mother Burnside/Madame Branislowski), Eric Jon Malhum (Mr. Upson), Mary Jo McConnell (Mrs. Upson), Kim Sava (Peegan), Melissa Ann Steadman, Kit Treece, Kellyn Uhl (Gloria), John T. Wolfe, Brittany Bohn and Nick Nerio.
The brassy 1966 musical is based on the episodic Lawrence & Lee play about the hedonistic eccentric aunt of a young orphan. Jerry Herman wrote the show's songs, including "Open a New Window," "It's Today" and "If He Walked Into My Life." The source material for the play and musical is the Patrick Dennis novel "Auntie Mame."
Mame is directed by Ray Roderick (Goodspeed's Hello! My Baby, My One and Only, Singin' in the Rain and 42nd Street) and choreographed by Vince Pesce (associate choreographer of Broadway's Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town and Little Shop of Horrors).
The creative team also includes set designer James Youmans, costume designer Gregg Barnes, lighting designer Charlie Morrison, sound designer Jay Hilton, music director Michael O'Flaherty, assistant music director William J. Thomas and orchestrator Dan DeLange.
For more information, call (860) 873-8668 or visit goodspeed.org.
By Kenneth Jones for www.playbill.com.
Photo: Louise Pitre as Mame. ©2012 Diane Sobolewski.
2012-05-09
East Haddam, CT: Goodspeed “Mame” starring Louise Pitre opens tonight