Sentence examples for play mama from inspiring English sources

There are games and warm food and a couple who play "mama and papa" to the children.

It was Sondheim himself, come to say he was so impressed by her performance as Mrs Lovett, the baker of human-flesh pies, that he wanted her to play Mama Rose in his Gypsy.

In fact, Burnett was originally supposed to play Mama.

Are they trying to get me to play mama dog fetch?

[Laughs] They had written this beautiful piece and so when Carol said she wanted me to play Mama, they were doubly upset.

I mean, what funny chick who can belt a D sharp and is my age doesn't want to play Mama Rose?

As congratulations, one of the D.J.'s, Cosmic Cowboy, played "Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

She immediately plunged into a version of "Rose's Turn" (from "Gypsy") that made you wish she had played Mama Rose onstage 30 years ago when the time was right.

As the actor playing Mama's husband — a performer best known for TV commercials in which he plays Irv the Foot-Long Weiner — Harry Shearer wears a Zachary Scott mustache and flashes buck teeth.

Jonathan Kent's production this evocation of the rackety world of American vaudeville – with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents – boasted a breathtaking performance from Imelda Staunton, who played Mama Rose not as some implacable monster but as a jaunty, defiant woman seeking surrogate stardom through the showbiz success of her two daughters.

The pop-blues singer Carol Woods, who spent much of the last three years playing Mama Morton in the national touring company of "Chicago," is one of the more dependable theatrical troupers to mine a blustery rhythm-and-blues tradition that embraces large women with big, rugged voices.