The Broadway Musical ~ In Concert! August 24 and 25
By Laura Jane Pittman
It’s about time! A staged concert of the 1960s Broadway classic Mame—which originally starred Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur—is coming to the Florida Theatre this month in a first-ever collaboration between two of the oldest venues in the region. The chief executive officers of the Florida Theatre and Theatre Jacksonville first began kicking around the possibility more than a decade ago, shortly after Florida Theatre president Numa Saisselin had moved to Jacksonville from New Jersey.
“I was making a point of meeting all my industry peers in the region, and Sarah Boone had invited my wife and me to a performance of Neil Simon’s Rumors at Theatre Jacksonville. I remember mentioning to her the idea that we should collaborate on a show,” says Saisselin. “She agreed and added, ‘Promise me you’ll come to me first when the time is right.’”
