![]() ![]() The fact is that despite having a beloved heroine, a popular score and a time frame that spans nearly 20 years (from 1928 to 1946), “Mame” doesn’t really get moving until the title number brings the curtain down on the first act.īy then, we’ve long since grasped the essentials of the story, which first caught the public imagination in Patrick Dennis’s 1955 best-selling novel, “Auntie Mame,” and then went on to even greater glory as a stage and film vehicle for Rosalind Russell. He has proved in the past that he knows his way around old musicals, as well as the tight confines of the Goodspeed’s East Haddam playing space. ![]() Neither is the show’s director, Ray Roderick. But it’s not until everyone else departs and she’s left alone on James Youmans’s stylish set to sing the show’s rueful, climactic Jerry Herman ballad, “If He Walked Into My Life,” that this production comes fully into its own. Starring as the irrepressible title character in “Mame” at the Goodspeed Opera House, she lends a fierce energy to the snazzy choreography by Vince Pesce and the efficient book scenes of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Louise Pitre knows how to punch home a song.
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