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Call Me Madam is a Broadway musical written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. The musical is a satire on politics and foreign policy that spoofs postwar America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries.
Irving Berlin's sparkling political satire, Call Me Madam, is based on the real-life Washington DC hostess and Democratic Party fundraiser Perle Mesta, who was appointed the Ambassador to Luxembourg in 1949.
Sep 15, 2021 · Call Me Madam is loosely based on the real life of US socialite and one of the first female US ambassadors in history, Perle Testa. The story tells of her musical alter ego Sally Adams, a socialite who gets appointed as the ambassador to (the fictional) Lichtenberg.
Sep 20, 2021 · Though based on a true character, the story of Sally Adams, a queen of Washington society appointed US ambassador to a small imaginary Grand Duchy of Lichtenberg, is nonsensical fluff!
Feb 7, 2019 · Call Me Madam, for those of you rooted in the 21st century, was a star vehicle for Ethel Merman at the absolute peak of her career. Her skills carried the show, which has a sturdy but mostly unimaginative score by Irving Berlin; this, four years after Merman and Berlin triumphed with the infinitely better Annie Get Your Gun .
Mar 3, 2022 · Call Me Madam. Music/Lyrics: Irving Berlin Book: Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse. Musical Type: Golden Age (1950) Who It’s Loosely Based On: Perle Mesta
Nov 10, 2020 · Call Me Madam was the summer-of-1949 brainchild of writers Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a presidential election, State of the Union, was a triumph of the 1945-46 theatrical season.
