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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0617742048629
Format: Soundtrack
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Collector's Choice
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
MPN: 486
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Collector's Choice
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Studio: Collector's Choice
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Rating:  -
I've been a huge fan of Lucille Ball for years but she just isn't Mame or Auntie Mame for that matter! It's not just that she was too old for the part or lacked a singing voice, she was terribly miscast, plain and simple!
If Angela Lansbury had played the part and Lucy had taken a "Guest Star" role as Vera Charles, this might have been a classic!
The score is mainly ho hum, so i suggest as others have, get the Broadway Cast CD!
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Millie may have been thoroughly modern; Mollie may have been unsinkable; but Lucy, the great Lucy, the Lucy who was, arguably, the brightest comedic genius this country has yet produced, Lucy, our beloved Lucy, proved in one very long stretch of celluloid to be not only modern, er... up to date, but completely stoppable.
She met her match, amazingly, in Jerry Herman's "Mame", that frothy song and dance fest that, in actuality, is much more difficult, much more subtle, than it seems. ... Read More
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Lucille Ball was the amazing, gifted, hands down Queen of comedy during the golden age of television, but she was NO AUNTIE MAME! While the supporting actors are great in their performances, Ball hopelessly cackles out her lyrics with all the grace and talent of a bull frog with a severe case of laryngitis. It was truly one of the greatest crimes in modern cinema to have cast Lucille Ball over Angela Lansbury, and listening to this album only confirms the fact that the world was absolutely robbed by ... Read More
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Jack Warner and Warner Bros. had a history of ruining Broadway musicals with poor casting choices in transfering them to film. The list includes My Fair Lady (ignoring Julie Andrews for the non-singing Audrey Hepburn, though it's a terrific film, with Andrews it would have reached cinema perfection!), Roz Russell in place of Merman in Gypsy, Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero in Camelot, the entire cast of Paint Your Wagon,among others. Lucy in Mame was the worst mistake! Period. She was far too old, could ... Read More
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Before I go on, let's get the usual gripes out of the way. Yes, Lucille Ball was too old. Yes, she couldn't sing. Yes, she couldn't dance. Yes, her closeups were shot with an entire jar of Vaseline on the lens to hide her wrinkles. Yes, the incredible Angela Lansbury would have been far better for it, singing-wise, and it's very much a shame that she wasn't allowed to preserve her Tony-winning performance on film for all time. Now, let's get to the soundtrack CD review.
Mame was to be a grand ... Read More
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