This week we chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from the silver screen fable of Mack and Mabel!
According to Kenneth Bloom, Mack & Mabel was "The saddest failure of Jerry Herman's career". It was a "victim of its time, an era when rock musicals were preferred over traditional musical comedy scores. Deep at its core was a simple love story and an exceptionally appropriate score. The urge to turn what could have been a bittersweet drama into a huge musical comedy was fatal."
- FURTHER READING -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_and_Mabel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_Sennett
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Normand
https://music.apple.com/us/album/mack-mabel-1974-original-broadway-cast-recording-1992/1452268176
https://open.spotify.com/album/6SNC89WatfHnCCun3G1y0h
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