Mame Backing Tracks

Mame Backing Tracks – Bosom Buddies, If He Walked Into My Life, Mame, We Need A Little Christmas,

Mame is a musical with the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. In 1958, a film titled Auntie Mame, released by Warner Brothers, starring Rosalind Russell. It was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for her portrayal. The musical opened on Broadway in 1966, starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur.

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Synopsis

The madcap life of eccentric Mame Dennis and her bohemian, intellectual arty clique is disrupted when her deceased brother’s 10-year-old son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo, “Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.” Figuring in the storyline are Agnes Gooch (Mame’s personal secretary and nanny-in-law), Vera Charles (her “bosom buddy” baritone actress and world’s greatest lush) and Dwight Babcock (the stuffy and officious executor of her brother’s estate). Mame loses her fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and tries her hand at a number of jobs with comically disastrous results but perseveres with good humour and an irrepressible sense of style.

Mame then meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a Southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. The trustees of Patrick’s father force Mame to send Patrick off to boarding school (the fictional St Boniface, in Massachusetts), and Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon that stops when Beau falls to his death while mountain climbing. Mame returns home a wealthy widow to discover that Patrick has become a snob engaged to an equally priggish debutante, Gloria Upson, from a bigoted family. Mame brings Patrick to his senses just in time to introduce him to the woman who will eventually become his wife, Pegeen Ryan. As the story ends, Mame is preparing to take Patrick’s young son, Peter, to India with her usual flair.

SONGS

Act One

Overture − Orchestra
St. Bridget − Agnes, Young Patrick
It’s Today − Mame, Ensemble
It’s Today (Reprise) – Mame, Young Patrick
Open a New Window − Mame, Ensemble
The Moon Song (The Man in the Moon) − Vera, Mame, Girls
My Best Girl − Young Patrick, Mame
We Need a Little Christmas − Mame, Young Patrick, Agnes, Ito, Beauregard
The Fox Hunt − Uncle Jeff, Young Patrick, Cousin Fan, Mother Burnside, Cousins
Mame − Beauregard Jackson Picket Burnside, Ensemble
Finale Act I (“My Best Girl” and “Mame”) − Young Patrick and All

Act Two

Opening Act Two (The Letter) − Young Patrick, Older Patrick
My Best Girl (Reprise) − Older Patrick
Bosom Buddies − Mame, Vera
Gooch’s Song − Agnes
That’s How Young I Feel − Mame, Ensemble
If He Walked Into My Life − Mame
It’s Today (Reprise) − Mame, Ensemble
My Best Girl (Reprise) − Older Patrick
Finale Act II (“Open A New Window”) − Company