New Rosie play?

That is the one Cyndi Lauper is working on.

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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?

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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??!!)

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!

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

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

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!

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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.

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