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How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose?
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #25
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:08pm
Source for what?
There were black performers. I do prefer a white actress because of tradition but i am sure that she will be amazing regardless.
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How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #26
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:19pm
Want proof? Gypsy took place from the 1920's to the end of the 30's right?
Ella Fitzgerald (First Lady of Jazz)
Years active: 1934-1993
Nat King Cole
Years Active: 1935-1965
Louis Armstrong
Years Active: 1914-1971 (Louise was only three when his career started)
So yeah...I think a black performer is not historically inaccurate to these times. 
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #27
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:24pmBut it's "tradition," so we should prefer that it be a white actress. Never go against tradition!
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #28
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:29pm
YOU don't have to prefer it but I do
same way I would prefer a black Bess or an Asian Engineer
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #29
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:31pm
Well, you seem to be quite disrespectful of the "tradition" of putting periods at the end of a sentence.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #30
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:33pm
How was what I said so offensive?
Or do you just want something to be offended by?
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #31
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:37pmJust because you type something doesn't make it true, Showface.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #32
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:39pm
^there were actual black performers working in showbiz.
Why is that so hard to believe?
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #33
Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:44pm
She already messed up one American Musical Theater classic. Why shouldn't she be given the chance to mess up more?
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How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #34
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:16pm
This thread has to be the most embarrassing piece of **** ever catalogued on this site. It really has reached a new low. And that is saying a lot since most of the posts on this board are moronic statements by bitter never-was actors, twenty-something wanna-bees with no interest in the history of theater, and tween fan gurls obsessed with Kristen and Wicked.
Now we have this thread. Let's add to that flock the racists and that about sums up the face of Broadway World posters.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #35
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:16pm
In the words of Bob Merrill, "Ciao, Compare."
Updated On: 7/6/14 at 07:16 PM
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How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #36
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:23pm
I guess Woody didn't cast it.
This thread is piss poor.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #37
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:26pm
This thread gives me a woody. Does that count?
Updated On: 7/6/14 at 07:26 PM
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #39
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:28pmI have no idea who JG 2 is but I think it's wannabe, not wannabee.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #40
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:32pmTo be fair, I did dress up as a bumblebee one Halloween.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #42
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:46pmAw, Jay, we gonna call you Bumblebee from now on.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #43
Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:54pmAre bumblebees bi-racial?
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #44
Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:08pmCorny to go back to the actual topic, I know -- but doesn't it matter to anyone here that Louise is an actual famous icon of the 20th century, who I'm pretty sure was white.
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #45
Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:14pm
So are we supposed to just ignore her being black?
Wow. What a great idea. I never even thought of that as a possibility.
Thanks!
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #46
Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:23pmOnly been here reading a few months, but yeah this is the dumbest crap I've read in here. 1800's really?
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #48
Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:29pm
"Corny to go back to the actual topic, I know -- but doesn't it matter to anyone here that Louise is an actual famous icon of the 20th century, who I'm pretty sure was white."
And this show is a highly fictionalized, theatrical fable that is "suggested by" her memoir ("suggested by" is in the official billing of the show, so the authors made that choice over "based on"). It's as much a fact based biography of her life as the original production of Side Show was of the Hilton twins (which took huge liberties with the timeline of their lives, and switched which twin was on which side).
How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? #49
Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:34pm
So are you saying that a production of Annie featuring a black FDR would be fine, since it's not an historically accurate work?
The arc of Act II is still the rising success of the real-life Gypsy Rose Lee, however fictionalized. I don't see how you ignore that without hurting the piece.
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