Mack & Mabel at The Alchemy Theatre

Book by Michael Stewart and Francine Pascal, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Re-imaged and directed by Michael Cooper. This re-imagined version of the musicalMack & Mabelwill be a fully staged production exposing the destructive, co-dependent relationship between the great Hollywood comic director Mack Sennett and the brilliant young star of his early two-reelers, Mabel Normand. Despite turbulent scandal and Ms. Normands descent into alcohol and drug addiction, leading to her untimely death at the age of 38, she remains a pioneer in the film worldone of the earliest silent actors to function as her own director, the first leading female performer to be named in the title of her films, and one of the first women in film history to own her own film studio.

Authors

• Jerry Herman
• Michael Stewart (i)