A different end to GYPSY- Page 2

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 5:44am

Annie should end with the curtain rising and Annie being molested in her ratty clothes...

Just like Rose after Rose's Turn... that's what we're talking abour, right?

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 6:49am

It really seems like I remember something along the lines of what a previous poster said. I think I watched or heard something where there wasn't an ending scene, just the song. I think it was the original. Now, perhaps it was the way they said it, but I thought that it was kept that way for at least some time.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 8:13am

To even think that Arthur Laurents would cut his final scene from Gypsy betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of who Arthur Laurents is.

He cuts OTHER PEOPLE'S material, not his own.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 9:21am

PJ-
While normally I am right with you on these things...wouldn't the cutting of the "faux rape" scene be cutting his own material?

This sounds about as bad as the production Andrea McArdle was in, where the entire cast came in to do back up during Rose's Turn.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 11:01am

This may have been a horrendous error in GYPSY, but I was actually cast as Dolly in a local production and I felt my dreams were finally being realized until our first read-thru. The director told us that the title song was completely extraneous and he was thinking of cutting it. Now, what is HELLO, DOLLY! without its title number? More importantly, I realized that he didn't understand the meaning of the parade number and how the title song was a realization of Dolly's determination to re-join the human race.

After a night of soul-searching, I withdrew from the show, which ultimately was never performed.

[JRybka]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 12:32pm

See I thought the ending of Annie was the curtain goes down and then comes up with and adult Annie sittin there telling some kids.. "And that's how I became Mrs. Daddy Warbucks. Of course, he died on our wedding night and now I own EVERYTHING!"

[morosco]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 12:35pm

Edited after reading Husk-Charmer's post.

Yes! I remember the back up dancers as Andrea McArdle sang Rose's Turn! I had no idea anyone else would remember that!
Updated On: 1/26/10 at 12:35 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 2:13pm

Arthur Laurents would be way more likely to cut "Rose's Turn" than his final scene.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 3:59pm

I did ragtime last year at my MIDDLE SCHOOL so sarah didnt die. I was like FTS.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 4:19pm

Arthur would be more likely to cut Rose herself from GYPSY than cut the final scene.

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[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 4:43pm

They're doing RAGTIME in middle schools now? I'll pay good money to see a video of that production.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 1/26/10 at 4:45pm

I have just read an interview with Laurents, Sondhiem, and Robbins speaking about Gypsy. Laurents and Sondheim said that when Oscar Hammerstein saw the show there was no scene after "Rose's Turn". The show's original ending was simply "Rose's Turn". Hammerstein only had two notes on the entire production, and one was that their needed to be some sort of closer for the audience, and there needed to be something that said that Rose is a human being, not this monster.

This is not all true.

The song "Rose's Turn" did not have an ending..instead while Rose was repeating "For me...For me.." the orchestra trailed off into so high squeaky violins and Gypsy walked in applauding. Sondheim felt a woman having a nervous breakdown would not stop to punch in a climatic note.

Hammerstein pointed out that the audience was so anxious to applaud Ethel that they weren't paying attention to the final scene. Hammerstein suggested putting in a big finish and letting the applause happen. And that is what they did. The final scene was ALWAYS there. (Until the folks at Theatre Unlimited got their paws on the show.)