Mack & Mabel

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Event Mack & Mabel
Venue Hamilton, Hamilton, New Zealand
First Date 1989
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description The plot involves the tumultuous romantic relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand (transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the musical), who became one of his biggest stars. In a series of flashbacks, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early 'two-reelers', through his creation of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death from tuberculosis in 1930.
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Musical
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Jerry Herman Music and Lyrics Librettist
Michael Stewart Writer Book
Text Nationality United States of America
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 197820