Mae West: Toot, Toot

Fixated on her career as much as on her Dionysian urges, MAE WEST had a lot in common with Al Jolson, with whom she shared the stage a few times.
• • It's nice to know they both are still touring in "Jolson & Company" — — though some theatre reviewers mistakenly think the two vaudevillians once walked down the aisle.
• • [Geeeez. Get thee to Wikipedia or the Internet Broadway Database, New Jerseyans.]
• • The Princeton Packet's drama critic had this to say in his overview of the best dozen plays and musicals in central New Jersey during 2007.
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• • Referring to the Off-Broadsheet production of "Jolson & Company," Stuart Duncan writes: We go way back to mid-January [2007] for our first show and a terrific trip down memory lane. Al Jolson was one of the nation’s finest performers, a man of huge appetites, and his songs — — “Mammy,” “Rockabye My Baby,” “April Showers” and “Toot, Toot, Tootsie” — — were only some of the 17 in this biographical smash. Bob Thick played Al Jolson, using his opera-trained baritone/ bass voice exquisitely. Heather Diaforli played all the women in his life, including wives Mae West [sic] and Ruby Keeler. Peter Wright made his debut at the piano and sellout audiences roared their approval at Hopewell’s dessert theater. What a delicious beginning to the new year.
• • Source: The Princeton Packet (Princeton, NJ)
• • Byline and errors credited to Stuart Duncan
• • Published on 26 December 2007
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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