Auntie Mame

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The Cast
(order in program)

Norah Muldoon (Cecilia Rinaldi)

Young Patrick (William Morosko)

Teen Patrick (Ethan Cooper)

Patrick (Caleb Bryant)

Ito (Tatum L'Heureux)

Mame Dennis (Carol Ault)

Vera Charles (Linda Watkins)

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside (Brittan Posey)

Emory MacDougal (& Michael Dennis) (Sean Wendelken)

Lindsey Woolsey (& Lord Dudley) (Jason Morosko)

Mr. Loomis (& Theater Manager, Lithuanian Bishop, Lance Beaufort) (Terrence J. Smith)

Babcock (& Veterinarian, Reginald, Uncle Moultrie) (Joe Balding)

Sally Cato MacDougal (Ronni Smith)

Mother Burnside (Sylvia Abbott)

Agnes Gooch (& Radcliffe, Shopper, Aunt Euphemia) (Fae Maffin)

Brian O'Bannion (& Ralph Devine, Paper Hanger, Butler, Groom) (Ezra Thobaben)

Gloria Upson (& Cousin Fan) (Hannah Sickles)

Mr. Upson (& Osbert, Stage Manager, Cousin Jeff) (Doug Bentley)

Mrs. Upson (Martha Carson)

Pegeen Ryan (& Maid, Edna, Woman in Macy's) (James McGee-Moore)

Norah and Patrick are greeted at Mame Dennis's house by Ito, the houseboy.

Inside, a party is under way: Osbert, Vera, and Ralph Devine discuss modern dance.

Radcliffe, Edna, and Dr. Fuchtwanger

Mame makes an announcement: “This is my little boy!”

Mame and Patrick, unsure of each other.

Ralph Devine, who operates a “progressive” school, questions Mame's proposing that Patrick read a book: “You're not going to let that child read! Taste life second hand!”

Mame takes another tack on education: ”Everytime you hear a word you don't understand, just take this pad and pencil and write it down. Later on Auntie Mame will explain it to you.”

Mame and Patrick get acquainted.

The Paperhanger starts one of many apartment makeovers.

Mr. Babcock of the Knickerbocker Bank, Patrick's conservative trustee, presents his choices of the best schools.

Ito shows Norah Mame's latest educational apparatus for Patrick: “Missy say boy gotta know inside like outside.”

Lindsay Woolsey, a publisher, reminds Mame, “There're a lot of women in this town who think I'm a reasonably good catch.”

Babcock storms in with Patrick, whom he has snatched from Ralph Devine's school to find the students and teachers naked: “Show'em what you were doing when I broke into the place.” &ldWe were just playing fish families.”

Babcock warns Mame and Patrick: ”Tomorrow morning, I, me, personally—I'm taking this kid off to boarding school myself. . . . And kid, you'd better be wearing knickers!”

As if that's not enough, the stock market crashes: “Missy Dennis, stock broker want to say hello before he jump out of window.”

Vera has the answer: she will get Mame a small part in her new play.

In the play, the Butler and the Maid discuss the romance developing between the Princess and their master, Reginald.

The play ends in disaster due to Mame's jangling bracelets . . .

. . . which get stuck in Vera's fur wrap.

Operating a switchboard goes no better.

Mr. Loomis fires Mame from Macy's because she can only write out COD receipts, in spite of the protest from her Southern customer.

Patrick gives Mame an early Christmas present: a quiet rhinestone bracelet.

Mame decides they need “Christmas all the way round.”

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside arrives after hunting all over town for Mame, and invites the whole family out to dinner.

At Peckerwood Plantation, Uncle Moultrie, Lance Beaufort, Aunt Euphemia, Cousin Jeff, and Cousin Fan can't wait to see the confrontation between Beau's Yankee girl friend and Mother Burnside.

Beau proudly introduces Mame to Mother Burnside, Beau's former fiancee Sally Cato MacDougal, and Cousin Fan.

When Mame claims to love horseback riding, Sally Cato invites everyone to a fox hunt—and undertakes to supply Make with riding clothes, boots, a sidesaddle, and a horse. Beau responds, “Anything Mame says she can do, she can do.” Patrick and Sally Cato's brother Emory aren't so sure.

As the Groom struggles to hold Mame's horse Lightnin' Rod, Mame advances, quoting from a book on horsemanship: “Fix the animal in the eye with a masterful gaze.”

The hunt takes off: “Kee-ripes. Look at 'em go,” shouts Emory.

“Fall off, Auntie Mame! Fall off!”

“What happened to the fox?” Mother Burnside asks. “Trampled to death!” responds a bedraggled Mame, who grabbed the wheel of the county vet's Model A to stop herself from being thrown off.

Beau proposes, Sally Cato is disgraced, and Emory declares, “Hot damn! My sister's gonna bust a gut!”

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