Sennett and Normand live again in troubled 'Mack'

Oakland Tribune | May 2, 2006| | Copyright

'MACK & MABEL" is one of the best flops of all time.

There was every reason to believe the musical would be the next big thing when it opened in 1974. The team behind the mega-hit "Hello, Dolly!" -- composer Jerry Herman, writer Michael Stewart, director Gower Champion and producer David Merrick -- had reunited and lightning was sure to strike twice.

Except that it didn't.

Original stars Robert Preston, who played silent film director Mack Sennett (of Keystone Kops and Sennett's Bathing Beauties fame), and Bernadette Peters, who played Mack's lover and star, Mabel Normand, were widely ...

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