AUNTIE MAME

by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee, based on the novel by Patrick Dennis

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"The show is an ambitious one for any company to produce, let alone a community theater group. With 25 scenes, and tons of significant costume and set changes, “Mame” requires a versatile set and a stage crew that’s as well-rehearsed as the actors.  Fortunately, P.T.D.’s production has both."   ...Jenn McKee

Auntie Mame, the play that spawned the musical Mame, chronicles the madcap adventures of Patrick growing up as the ward of his deceased father’s eccentric sister, Mame Dennis. In short order, he’s attending a clothing-optional Bohemian school, putting to bed Mame’s hard-partying friend, actress Vera Charles; and learning to mix a perfect martini. None of this sits very well with Dwight Babcock, his father’s executor, who spirits him away to a boarding school. Mame loses “big time” in the 1929 crash. Things look bleak until she finds love and marries, only to be widowed a year later. Meanwhile, Patrick is growing up in a succession of boarding schools, and his visits to Auntie Mame become sporadic as he begins spending more vacation time with “Uncle Dwight.” 
As Mame watches her young nephew grow into a man she knows she must rescue him from the stuffy, conventional lifestyle towards which he is heading, because “Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”   Mame’s appetite for life ensures that when she’s done, she won’t leave behind a single crumb of missed experience or an ounce of regret. 

 

 

AUNTIE MAME
Cast List

Mame Dennis                                     Janet Rich
Vera Charles                                   Marie Jones
Norah Muldoon               Lois Kuznets Dowling
Ito                                                  Jim Dowling
Young Patrick Dennis                  Ben Mercieca
Older Patrick Dennis                    Taylor Styes
Beauregard Burnside                  Chris Starkey
Mr. Babcock                                      Rick Katon
Gloria Upson                              Leslie McCarty
Mrs. Upson                                      Diana Hunt
Mr. Upson                                    Todd Minehan
Lindsay Woolsey                                Joe York
Agnes Gooch                          Caroline Huntoon
Brian O’Bannion                        Adam Weakley
Pegeen                                           Sara Kruger
Sally Cato                                       Amy Griffith
Mother Burnside                                 Alice Fell
Paper Hanger                                Brad Halsey
Michael/Emory                                       Eli Tell

ENSEMBLE:
Girl at Party                             Mary Hopper
Woman at Party                        Val Mercieca
Woman at Party                          Tia Thomas
Woman at Party                         Amy Griffith
Woman at Party                     Joanna Blauer
Ralph Devine                                Mike Hahn
Osbert                                       Larry Cornell
Stage Manager                             Tia Thomas
Maid (actress)                           Mary Hopper
Theater Manager                       Val Mercieca
Butler (actor)                    Richard Heberlein
Leading man                                  Mike Hahn
Shopper 1                                     Tia Thomas
Mr. Loomis                                 Larry Cornell
Shopper 2                                 Joanna Blauer
Cousin Jeff                                       Mike Hahn
Cousin Fan                                   Mary Hopper
Emory/Groom                                       Eli Tell
Woman at hunt                          Joanna Blauer
Woman at hunt                             Val Mercieca
Vet                                       Richard Heberlein