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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
Originally titled ''My Best Girl'', it is based on the 1955 novel ''Auntie Mame'' by [[Patrick Dennis]] and a 1956 Broadway play, by Lawrence and Lee.
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Originally titled ''My Best Girl'', it is based on the 1955 novel ''Auntie Mame'' by [[Patrick Dennis]] and a 1956 Broadway play by Lawrence and Lee.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 07:34, 15 October 2014

A musical with the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. First produced on Broadway in 1966 with Angela Lansbury. [1]

The original text

Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play by Lawrence and Lee.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

First produced in South Africa by Brickhill-Burke, with Joan Brickhill in the lead.

Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1990.

Sources

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