#1
Posted: 3/4/08 at 2:18pm
I forgot to mention what happened to me at intermission last night...
This guy sees me in my Lupone Gypsy City Center shirt, and stops me with his wife and asks "I see by your shirt that you must be a musical guru, right?"
"One might say that," I replied.
"Me and my wife have a question. Wasn't there a musical on Broadway just a few years ago about this same story? It was about Gypsy Rose Lee and the strippers and Bernadettte Peters was in it..."
"Well, in 2003 this same show was on Broadway and Bernadette Peters played the part Patti LuPone has..."
The wife tells her husband, "Oh, that must have been it! That's what we saw."
The husband replies, "No, it's not familar though. Is there any other musical about Gypsy and her sister or the strippers?"
I reply, "If there is, it was not on Broadway in the past two decades and Bernadette Peters certainly wasn't in it."
The wife says "This has gotta be it then. It's the same show, huh?"
"Yes," I say, "it's with a different cast and creative team, but it's the same exact show with the same exact songs."
This guy sees me in my Lupone Gypsy City Center shirt, and stops me with his wife and asks "I see by your shirt that you must be a musical guru, right?"
"One might say that," I replied.
"Me and my wife have a question. Wasn't there a musical on Broadway just a few years ago about this same story? It was about Gypsy Rose Lee and the strippers and Bernadettte Peters was in it..."
"Well, in 2003 this same show was on Broadway and Bernadette Peters played the part Patti LuPone has..."
The wife tells her husband, "Oh, that must have been it! That's what we saw."
The husband replies, "No, it's not familar though. Is there any other musical about Gypsy and her sister or the strippers?"
I reply, "If there is, it was not on Broadway in the past two decades and Bernadette Peters certainly wasn't in it."
The wife says "This has gotta be it then. It's the same show, huh?"
"Yes," I say, "it's with a different cast and creative team, but it's the same exact show with the same exact songs."
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
