New Rosie play?

[itstheM]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:32pm

Just read in Newsweek that Rosie is going to be producing a new play based on her autobiography "Find Me." She really knows how to pick 'em.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:35pm

That is the one Cyndi Lauper is working on.

[EuanMortonLuvr]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:39pm

nothing she is going to do is going to help her. there is so much negativity from people gravitating around her even a play that touches almost everyone who sees it got screwed over

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:52pm

THANK GOD YOU GUYS JOINED THIS BOARD TO TELL US THIS!

Now, what is it you're saying there EML? Which she is the she who is trying to help the other she and is it the same she who is the her who has so much negativity gravitating around her that screws over everybody who sees a play (which play?) that got screwed over?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:54pm

Well I would love to see her succeed. I hope FIND ME is an Off-Broadway hit.

[Becky]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:07pm

I went to a taping of the Rosie O Show in it's final weeks, and she was talking about the play during the breaks -- it's been in the works for a long time. She wrote about a week ago on the forum that she's planning out of town dates with a Broadway opening in the fall of 2004. That's if it is on schedule....

Becky (who left the Rosie show with a box of crayons and a Barbie pen. Where were the DVD sets, Tivos, and other great give-aways when I was there, huh??!!)

[EuanMortonLuvr]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:10pm

No im saying that I do want to see Rosie succeed but I doubt that will happen because even though Taboo was a huge success in London it didnt do well here. And most people I talk to loved Taboo. Euan said it himself that there is so much bad talk about rosie it is discouraging to continue on when she did so much for taboo. And I fear the worst that she wants to do another one for fear she might have the same poor results but I do want to see her succeed

[Max Bialystock]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:32pm

In my humble opinion she (Ms. Rosie)should put together and star in a musical verion of the movie SHE-DEVIL that starred Roseanne Barr and Linda Hunt. That, I would pay $100 to see her in!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 5:47pm

Taboo's run in London didn't really constitute a huge hit. It is proving somewhat successful on a UK tour.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 5:51pm

Actually, Max, that is not a bad idea. It sure beats a musicalization of her autobiography.

Updated On: 1/20/04 at 05:51 PM

[Elphie]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 6:43pm

I think Taboo would still be running if Rosie started it on Off-Broadway.

[ChrisLovesShows]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:00pm

I agree with Elphie. Taboo had off-Broadway written all over it, to me. Remember that in London it played in a small night club.

Hey, Elphie, now that we're friends, I've decided to make you my new project!

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:04pm

Wasn't Meryl Streep in She-Devil?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:23pm

I thought FIND ME was quite powerful, just the right (small) canvas, and by the way, not exactly an autobiography. In it, she owns a lot of her own bull-in-a-chinashop MO. It has a twist that turns the seemingly predictable good samaritan story she's recounting inside out. It's not quite the feelgood "this is how/why I'm f--ked up" tell-all it seems to be. I hope the stage version comes together.

The irony is, she might've faced a far more receptive audience with this small, humble project -- something tucked into the Booth or even the Minetta Lane -- if she'd done this first. Leaping into TABOO's issues with such hubris, alas, announcing it would take the Tony-- Well, I'm a Rosie fan, but it was very Howard Dean-in-Iowa of her.

Updated On: 1/20/04 at 08:23 PM