red-hot mama

Aspiring red-hot mamas have been following Etta James's example for decades.

The picture exposes the widespread liquor traffic in the upper-classes, and Bow portrays an innocent girl who develops into a wild "red-hot mama."

"A little reverence wouldn't hurt you," Sophie intones as Belle mouths off about the red-hot mama's sermons and schmaltz, among other aversions.

Red-hot Papa, member of white race, seeks red-hot Mama, any race, any age, any religion.

Warning that "it may not be all smooth sailing" because "seduction riles and dismantles patriarchal domination," she still looks to the red-hot mamas of the future.

The pop side of Ms. Carter's sensibility is much more conventional than the red-hot mama of "Ain't Misbehavin."'

More to the point, it is the life that the vaudeville star of the 1920's presented onstage - red-hot mama and maudlin mamale, a ragtime gal smothered in schmaltz.

Singing numbers like "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Ms. Wilson exemplifies the red-hot mama of a certain age who has been through it all without losing her spirit.

Ms. Feldshuh is delightfully naughty as Sophie Tucker, the Last of the Red-Hot Mamas, telling risque jokes and singing "I Don't Want to Get Thin."

Allen wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Sophie, which was based on the early career of "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas", entertainer Sophie Tucker.

Sophie (Gwendolyn Jones) rose from dishwasher to server of gefilte fish and pickled herring to "coon shouter" in blackface on the vaudeville circuit to legendary "last of the red-hot mamas."

Weaving these disparate elements together with a brash good humor and plenty of heart is a performer who defines the contemporary red-hot mama: Sophie Tucker, Ethel Merman and Judy Garland rolled into one furiously energetic package.

Through an inspired 20-year collaboration with the pianist and arranger Wally Harper, she has evolved into a cabaret singer of increasing range and depth who spices up a traditional sweetness with her own version of a mature red-hot mama.

Besides Mr. Quinton and Mr. Phace, the diverse and quixotically talented cast includes Cheryl Reeves as Esmeralda, Sophie Maletsky as a mustached troubadour and Stephen Pell as a red-hot mama.

Ms. Wilson's jubilant new show, "Julie in Dixieland," finds the ageless cabaret legend doing her stylized impersonation of a New Orleans red-hot mama, accompanied by a solid Dixieland ensemble, the Smith Street Society Jazz Band.

Accompanied by the Smith Street Society Jazz Band, a Dixieland quartet (piano, tuba, trombone and clarinet), augmented by her musical director Mark Hummel on piano, Ms. Wilson wittily takes on the role of New Orleans-style red-hot mama.

The frisky, flighty leading ladies of his new book ("foxy" is his preferred adjective) are red-hot mamas (one is actually a grandmother) who have given their sixth decade a sticky kiss goodbye, but are still packing lip gloss and still cruising studs on Hollywood Boulevard.