‘Mame’ opens on Broadway 50 years ago this hour (May 24 1966)


Video: 'Angela Lansbury in MAME (Broadway, 1966)'

(Tuesday, May 24, 1966, 7:15 p.m. EDT)Mame, with the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, opened on Broadway tonight at Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, starring Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur.


Video: 'Angela Lansbury in MAME (Broadway, 1966)'


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