Mame

In 2019, she handed over the role of artistic director of Urban Bush Women to two company members, Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis.

It’s in his cocky but effete delivery, the same vocal quality I heard when theater queens debated who was the superior Mame at West Village gay bars.

Paige replaced Angela Lansbury in the New York production of “Mame” in 1968 on Broadway and toured with the show in 1969.

Though Paige’s leading film roles continued to wane, she starred twice on Broadway in the 1960s, in the musical “Here’s Love” and the original 1968 Broadway production of “Mame.”

Notably, she replaced the seemingly irreplaceable Angela Lansbury in “Mame” in 1968.