Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
#1Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:32pmHow else could she have her fingers in dozens of different pies?
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#2Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:42pmEven if she had an extra finger on each hand, that's still only a dozen pies. Where do those other twelve come from?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
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#3Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:50pmI do not believe she could have fingered dozens of pies simultaneously; rather, she sequentially probed the pies in rapid succession.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#4Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:54pm
Well, if we changed it to digits instead of fingers,
this kid could do it.
#5Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:56pm
I do not believe she could have fingered dozens of pies simultaneously; rather, she sequentially probed the pies in rapid succession.
I wonder if the last pie felt exceptionally dirty. It didn't know where those other pies had been!
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Updated On: 9/29/10 at 12:56 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#6Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:00pmI don't think it meant her specific fingers. She had Mrs. Lovett and Benjamin Barker to help her.
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ghostlight2
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#7Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
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#8Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:04pmHow'd they all wind up together, though? Eva left England in a huff without even getting the chance to make new friends. Besides, Mrs. Lovett and Benjamin Barker would've been dead already.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:05pmAnd if you do an exegesis on the lyrics, it's the man, whom Evita monoploizes, that has fingers in dozens of different pies.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#10Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:06pmSo it was Peron with the polydactylism? In addition to his radioactive penis? (his first wife also died of uterine cancer. coincidence? not very likely.)
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#11Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:09pm
"Eva left England in a huff without even getting the chance to make new friends."
Mrs. Lovett and Benjamin were working their pie shop at Gatwick. Eva stopped in for a quick snack because, as she put it, "These blimey British didn't even serve me any bloody tea."
As Evita rushed by, Mrs. Lovett could be heard singing "Wait, love wait!" Benjamin could be heard singing "Pretty women." Eva liked both of them and so she said, "C'mon mates! You can be part of my descamisadoes."
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 9/29/10 at 01:09 PM
goodoneinlou2
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#12Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:14pmIt all adds up now... when her embalmed corpse was found 10 years or so after her death... fingers were missing!
#13Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:30pm
As Evita rushed by, Mrs. Lovett could be heard singing "Wait, love wait!" Benjamin could be heard singing "Pretty women." Eva liked both of them and so she said, "C'mon mates! You can be part of my descamisadoes."
I'm kind of bummed this scene was cut out during out-of-town tryouts. I guess it didn't really fit in with "Rainbow Tour" unless Mandy Patinkin was doing both the voices.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Roscoe
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#14Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 3:39pm
Eva doesn't have polydactylism, but the man she seeks to monopolize must have fingers in dozens etc.
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#15Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 3:41pm^ And it's easy to see why she might want that skill in a man.
#16Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 3:47pmand how, Reggie!
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#17Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 4:04pm
"I'm kind of bummed this scene was cut out during out-of-town tryouts."
Originally Evita was four hours long but they had to cut a lot of material so that American audiences wouldn't be scared that it was an opera.
At the end when they say "Evita's body disappeared for seventeen years" that was the close of Act 1.
Act 2 started with Che placing Evita's body in real eiderdown and then placing the body on a hellicopter which then rose to Heaven.
During the helicopter lift, the descamisado chorus sang:
"Up, up, up past the Buenos Aires
Up, up, up, up, to Heaven's Rosada"
Then Eva came out and sang to Peron:
"News, takes times to reach us here.
So you've married Isabel.
And she is now Vice President
Well you can all, go straight to hell.
Perhaps one day my life will be
Better than the chaste Madonna
Oh, Death
Death Changes Everything
Live or perish
In its grip
Nothing in the world is ever worth this trip!
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 9/29/10 at 04:04 PM
#18Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 4:14pmwith an ending like that, how could they lose? I think they were misguided when they cut the show in half like that.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#19Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 4:24pm
Well they had to cut the show in half. Patti was complaining how range-y the music was and that Andrew hated women because he would write a note in head voice and then the next note would be in chest voice.
Somebody suggested that Patti do the first half of the show and Terri Klausner do the second half as the older Evita.
Patti said "I'll be damned if I'm in a musical where I only show up in Act 1 and then don't appear again until the end of the show."
So one night right before "half hour" was called, Patti snuck into the orchestra pit and stole all the music for Act 2.
Rumor has it that Lonny Price, who was in the chorus as Che Understudy, saw her do it and threatened to tell.
All anyone knows is that Lonny Price is the only theater person that Patti LuPone has never had a problem with. She goes so far as to praise his "genius" as a theater artiste.
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#20Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?
Posted: 9/29/10 at 5:09pmWhat the hell are y'all talking about?
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