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Encores! Mack & Mabel Tickets

Encores! Mack & Mabel Tickets

New York
19 Feb 2020 - 23 Feb 2020

Encores! Mack & Mabel Information

New York City Center kicks off its 2020 Encores! season with Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's Mack and Mabel.

Performances take place on New York City Center's Mainstage.

(Photos by Joan Marcus)

The Encores! season opens with Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s Mack & Mabel, which tells the story of one of silent film’s first great pioneers, Mack Sennett, played by Douglas Sills (War Paint, The Scarlet Pimpernel), and his first great discovery and muse, the comedienne Mabel Normand, played by Alexandra Socha (Head Over Heels, Spring Awakening). Mack makes Mabel a star and love blossoms. But Mack’s insatiable drive to succeed and Mabel’s natural vulnerability—the key to her audience appeal—turn their love affair into a high wire act with no net.

The Mack & Mabel cast album has been treasured by musical theater lovers for decades, though only a few of them ever got to see the actual show. The score produced two ballads that have become standards of the American songbook: “Time Heals Everything” and “I Won’t Send Roses.” But many more of the numbers, including “Look What Happened to Mabel!” and “Movies Were Movies”—both of which were performed by Sills and Socha in Hey, Look Me Over! as part of the Encores! 2018 season—showcase the upbeat, sunny, irresistible melodies for which the composer of Hello, Dolly! and Mame is so justly celebrated.

Run time

TBD

Opening date

February 19th, 2020

Closing date

February 23rd, 2020

Categories

Musicals

Venue

New York City Center

Our review

Alexandra Socha & Douglas Sills in Mack and Mabel

Even the soberest of theater-goer can surrender all hope, for there is no resisting the wildly addictive music and lyrics of Mack & Mabel, the 1974 Broadway also-ran, featuring a tough dose of booze and pills, that launches the 2020 New York City Center's Encores! series. Jerry Herman's inspired score, injected with sparkly classics and lesser known gems alike, is here in glorious health, courtesy of a full-throated company of 30, backed by a 28-piece on stage orchestra.The book though, by...

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