Open a New Window (Audition) – Kaye Ballard, Jerry Herman (MAME)

"Open a New Window" from MAME performed by Kaye Ballard with Jerry Herman on the piano. Bookwriter Robert E. Lee provides some commentary on the source of the recording. From a December 1965 recording at Jerry Herman's home, auditioning Angela Lansbury and Kaye Ballard for the role.

[jaykaplan]

As always Kaye is wonderful. She would have made an interesting Mame:)

[GeorgeWTush]

How did she not end up as Gooch in one of the major productions that followed after the Broadway company?

[chrisn]

She would have made more sense auditioning for Vera.