Hi Gang
I was reading about an Australian play about the Mamas and Papas,with Casey Donovan, a past winner of Australian Idol playing Cass. One article below and another with a photo linked.
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MUSICAL MAMA
Later this month, singer Casey Donovan will take to the stage as part of the cast of Flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story, bringing to life the music (and story) of one of the 1960s' best known bands. To play ''Mama Cass'' Elliot, Donovan has had to learn all the tunes the band made famous … and has decided to put them to extra use after the show's run by staging her own production, a tribute to Mama Cass. It was only logical, the Australian Idol contestant said. She was already learning most of the tunes, why not add in a few more and make them really work? ''That's pretty much what I thought,'' she laughed in a rare break between rehearsing the two shows. ''I'm learning all about her story and her life, and the more I learn, the more I can't stop thinking what a woman she was and what a shame it was that she died so young.'' Cass, pop culture fans will remember, was at the centre of one of music's most enduring urban myths, that the overweight singer died at the age of 33, after choking to death on a ham sandwich. That wasn't quite what happened (she had a heart attack) but the legend has certainly stuck. '' It's incorrect,'' sighed Donovan, ''But yeah, when I say I'm playing Mama Cass, everyone goes 'Ooh! The ham sandwich!'.'' Donovan's Tribute To Mama Cass is on at The Basement, from September 28.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ar ... 6122409758