How can Leslie Uggums play Mama Rose? - Page 2

[icecreambenjamin]

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.

[Showface]

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.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:24pm

But it's "tradition," so we should prefer that it be a white actress. Never go against tradition!

[icecreambenjamin]

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

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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.

Updated On: 7/6/14 at 06:31 PM

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:33pm

How was what I said so offensive?

Or do you just want something to be offended by?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:37pm

Just because you type something doesn't make it true, Showface.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 6:39pm

^there were actual black performers working in showbiz.

Why is that so hard to believe?

[Gothampc]

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?

Link

[JayG 2]

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.

[JayG 2]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:16pm

In the words of Bob Merrill, "Ciao, Compare."
Updated On: 7/6/14 at 07:16 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:23pm

I guess Woody didn't cast it.

This thread is piss poor.

[Jordan Catalano]

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

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:27pm

The OP has to be trolling.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:28pm

I have no idea who JG 2 is but I think it's wannabe, not wannabee.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:32pm

To be fair, I did dress up as a bumblebee one Halloween.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:44pm

You mother fvcking racist.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:46pm

Aw, Jay, we gonna call you Bumblebee from now on.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 7:54pm

Are bumblebees bi-racial?

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:08pm

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.

[PalJoey]

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!

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:23pm

Only been here reading a few months, but yeah this is the dumbest crap I've read in here. 1800's really?

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 7/6/14 at 8:28pm

I'm sure he's trolling.

[AEA AGMA SM]

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).

[Someone in a Tree2]

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.