Thanks for this news. I had wondered who was playing Auntie Mame. I really cannot imagine McBroom in the role, but I really know nothing about her apart from the name. I've never seen the Smurfs.
For me, Mame the musical will always be dominated by the figure of Angela Lansbury, although I first saw it in a touring production starring the great Edie Adams (another actress who deserved to be better known). It was from reading the program notes to that production that I learned the word "effervescent" which was used to describe Edie, and boy, did it suit her to a T.
A year or two later my parents, after MUCH begging, took me to see Angela Lansbury in the show (I believe this was her last tour of it). Priceless, magic, brilliance come to mind as adjectives to describe Miss Lansbury's presence onstage.
I'm probably the only person who thinks this, but I believe Grayson Hall would have made a grand Vera. I know she would have done well with "The Man in the Moon is a Lady," given how she stopped the show with "The Ballad of the Lily in Hell" in Happy End.
Best, Steve
