Did Eva Peron have polydactylism?

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:32pm

How else could she have her fingers in dozens of different pies?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:38pm

Oh you!

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:42pm

Even if she had an extra finger on each hand, that's still only a dozen pies. Where do those other twelve come from?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:50pm

I do not believe she could have fingered dozens of pies simultaneously; rather, she sequentially probed the pies in rapid succession.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 12:54pm

Well, if we changed it to digits instead of fingers,
this kid could do it.

[givesmevoice]

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!

Updated On: 9/29/10 at 12:56 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:00pm

I don't think it meant her specific fingers. She had Mrs. Lovett and Benjamin Barker to help her.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:04pm

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[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:04pm

How'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.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:05pm

And if you do an exegesis on the lyrics, it's the man, whom Evita monoploizes, that has fingers in dozens of different pies.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:06pm

So it was Peron with the polydactylism? In addition to his radioactive penis? (his first wife also died of uterine cancer. coincidence? not very likely.)

[Gothampc]

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."

Updated On: 9/29/10 at 01:09 PM

[goodoneinlou2]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 1:14pm

It all adds up now... when her embalmed corpse was found 10 years or so after her death... fingers were missing!

[givesmevoice]

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.

[Roscoe]

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.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 3:41pm

^ And it's easy to see why she might want that skill in a man.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 3:47pm

and how, Reggie!

[Gothampc]

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!

Updated On: 9/29/10 at 04:04 PM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 4:14pm

with an ending like that, how could they lose? I think they were misguided when they cut the show in half like that.

[Gothampc]

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.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 9/29/10 at 5:09pm

What the hell are y'all talking about?