Jimmy Buffett says he was going to be on Broadway one way or another because of his mother. "She was the Southern version of Auntie Mame," Buffett says, "and she made me audition for 'South Pacific' in Mobile, [Ala.,] because she was playing Bloody Mary, and I was supposed to be Emile de Becque's son....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:48PM on November 9, 2017