Bugle used by Angela Lansbury in Broadway musical Mame: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Prop bugle used by Angela Lansbury in the original Broadway production of the musical Mame. The brass bugle has a nickel mouthpiece with a loose metal link chain connecting the mouthpiece to the bugle. Inscriptions include: near bottom neck of horn, "US REGULATION/MADE IN USA", on inside of horn is "MAME '76--COMPANY", and on the horn, names including members of the cast.

Mame is a musical comedy with book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music by Jerry Herman that opened on Broadway in 1966. The musical is based on the bestselling 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and Lawrence and Lee's 1956 Broadway play adaptation of the same name. It tells the story of the free-wheeling, eccentric Mame Dennis whose Bohemian lifestyle is interrupted by the appearance of her orphaned nephew Patrick. The story was also adapted as a 1958 film starring Rosalind Russell and a 1974 film adaptation of the musical starring Lucille Ball.

Materials, dates and provenance

• user: Lansbury, Angela
• Object Name: bugle
• Physical Description: brass (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 17 in x 7 in x 4 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 17.78 cm x 11.43 cm
• Subject: Musical Theater
• associated subject: Theater
• associated subject: Comedy
• ID Number: 2008.0026.02
• accession number: 2008.0026
• catalog number: 2008.0026.02
• Credit Line: Angela Lansbury
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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