#Mack And Mabel

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From The Wonderful Music and Lyrics of Jerry Herman concert

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put this Robert Preston playlist together because the “This is Robert Preston” Spotify playlist is computer generated trash ✌️

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Mack. And, dare I say. Mabel

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Ep49 Power Rangers to the Rescue! w/ Caroline O'Connor! (AUS)

Trigger Warning: This week's episode contains frank and raw discussion of suicide. This week, AW is flying solo as he sits down with the Queen of Aussie, West End, AND Broadway Theatre, THE Caroline O'Connor! In this honest and frank discussion, Caroline opens-up in ways that no guest has ever before on this silly little show whilst also sharing her thoughts on the Aussie theatre industry, her time with Chicago, working with Baz Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge!, comedy queens, and laughing-fits on stage. Plus, both guest and host fangirl over David Zippel, Andrew Lippa- and of course, the late, great Stephen Sondheim. "To Sondheim!" -RENT/La Vie Boheme A (J. Larson)

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Suicide Prevention Hotline: Lifeline Australia - 13 11 14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines -- https://www.suicidestop.com/call_a_hotline.html

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Norm Lewis as Mack Sennett (Mack and Mabel)

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Mack And Mabel @ Chichester Festival Theatre 2015 (#97)

Title: Mack And Mabel

Venue: Chichester Festival Theatre

Year: 2015

Condition: Wear to edges

Author: Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman Book by Michael Stewart Revised by Francine Pascal

Director: Jonathan Church

Choreographer: Stephen Mear

Cast: Joseph Prouse, Michael Ball, Anna-Jane Casey, Rebecca Louis, Andrew Waldron, Jack Edwards, Gunnar Cauthery, Rebecca LaChance, Ashley Andrews, Alex Giannini, Timothy Quinlan, Michelle Francis, Mark Inscoe, Emily Shaw, Adam Denman, Sam Stones, Nicole Deon, Emily Langham, Jenny Legg, Joshua Lovell, Grace McKee, Rohan Richards, Zara Warren, Libby Watts

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Mack Sennett stands by as F. Richard Jones directs Mabel Normand in THE EXTRA GIRL (1923).

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"My life and my creativity is all about learning how to get out of the way." — Bernadette Peters

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1913: Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett in the film 𝑴𝒂𝒃𝒆𝒍'𝒔 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 (1913). Roscoe Arbuckle plays a man in the cinema audience.

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"Getting Acquainted" 1914

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Sorry I can't stop thinking about how much Mabel and Theo's dynamic has changed

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Mabel Normand-Charles Chaplin "Mabel al volante" (Mabel at the wheel) 1914, de Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett.

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© 1918

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Dermot Mulroney

Look Out, Old Mack is Back

By Ronald Sklar

Once again, busy actor Dermot Mulroney is stepping – or in this case, singing and dancing – outside his comfort zone.

“I’m always comfortable when I’m having fun,” he insists, however.

This time, the fun presents itself not in another movie (there are lots of them. Check his IMDb), but as an “in concert” production of the Broadway musical Mack & Mabel (three nights only – February 16-18, 2024 – at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theater).

The fully staged, choreographed event is an inaugural production of the All Roads Theater Company; it’s based on the “forgotten” 1970s musical about Tinseltown’s earliest era. Expect Keystone Kops and flappers.

“It’s a romance and a beautiful story,” Dermot says. “It’s a major event in the musical theater world happening for a very short run.”

Dermot stars as silent-film director Mack Sennett and introduces Jenna Rosen as Mabel Normand, who became one of early Hollywood’s biggest stars.

A revival like this is no small thing for both the theater culture and for the actor himself.

“There are thirty people in this company,” Dermot says. “I’m learning so much from all of them.”

That the original show somehow slipped under the cultural radar is a baffling crime – the 1974 production starred no less than Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters; David Merrick produced it, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly, Mame). The show received eight Tony nominations and won none. Herman was not nominated. It ran for just 66 performances.

Yet somehow, over the decades, the original cast album grew an obsessive fan base, and there is new interest in the story.

Dermot says, “You learn now, in the computer age, that anything and everything has its following. The people who know Mack & Mabel are crazy about it.”

What else is crazy – so crazy that it makes perfect sense – is the shared hope for the show to make its way back to Broadway, fifty years later.

“There is every reason for that to happen,” Dermot says.

So why would a man who is known for so many movies suddenly take to the boards?

“I’ve decided to do Mack & Mabel for two reasons,” Dermot says. “One: I’ve never done this before, singing in a full musical. And two: because I’ve always wanted to do it. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity when it came to me out of the blue.”

Leading man roles sure enough attach themselves to Dermot. He’s been at it for about forty years, starring in everything from My Best Friend’s Wedding to The Wedding Date and Young Guns. On TV, he played Rachel’s boss on Friends, as well as prominent roles in New Girl and Shameless. He is also an accomplished cellist and has played professionally on various on-screen projects as well as in live musical performances.

Mack & Mabel, however, is a whole different animal.

“It’s hugely challenging for me,” Dermot admits. “It’s a world I’ve never inhabited. The two times I’ve been in musicals were in my senior year at Northwestern University, a thousand-seat theater. I sang in an operetta, as Ko-Ko The Executioner in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado.”

There is also the one that got away: the time that Francis Ford Coppola chose Dermot to play The Big Kahuna in his ambitious Gidget stage musical (alas, it never got past the workshop phase). And he has indeed sung in public before: on the big screen, to Julia Roberts, on a boat (see it here).

Mack & Mabel, though, is the musical Big Time. It fits nicely with his continuing busy career, including a key supporting role in the current hit romcom Anyone But You, as well as his turn as Detective Bailey in Scream 6.

“I’ve just been incredibly blessed,” he says of his journey. “I’ll admit, that’s what I thought the assignment was when I first became an actor, to be a man of a thousand faces.”

His face can now also be regularly seen on social media, as he has pumped up his posts on Instagram. Most of them push his current projects, but he also shares the kick he gets out the universally common misspelling of his name (think “Dermont” on a Starbucks cup).

“That is so fun for me because it’s happened to me my whole life,” he says.

Still, he enters the world of social media carefully, and treads lightly, as online life can sometimes do bad things to our offline attention spans.

The solution?

“We have to re-expand our attention spans,” he says. “That’s why the four-five-six-month learning process on Mack & Mabel has been incredibly good for my brain.”

Find out more about Mack & Mabel here.

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Samantha Barks as Mabel Normand (Mack and Mabel)

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Mack Sennett (standing), Mabel Normand, and Owen Moore in THE LITTLE TEACHER (1915), directed by Sennett.