{"id":851,"date":"2006-11-10T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T15:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/plugging-mama-cass\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T14:58:12","slug":"plugging-mama-cass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/10\/plugging-mama-cass\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging Mama Cass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgright\" id=\"image852\" height=\"241\" width=\"150\" alt=\"Amy Lam\u00e9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/amylame.jpg\" \/>American comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/amylame.blogspot.com\/\">Amy Lam&eacute;<\/a> dropped me a nice email a few weeks ago mentioning that her show, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mamacassfamilysingers.com\/\">Amy Lam&eacute;&#8217;s Mama Cass Family Singers<\/a><\/em> (which I&#8217;ll refer to, for ease of typing if not ease of reading, as <em>ALMCFS<\/em> from now on), has a London run this month.<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of my Edinburgh festival visits*, <em>ALMCFS<\/em> is a one woman show in which Amy recounts, with the assistance of family photos, video interviews and 1960s music, her life as a child star press-ganged into a Mamas and the Papas tribute band.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, touching, and slightly mad. 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