Patti Lupone and rose's turn

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:37am

Well I emailed Patti last week. In the email I asked Patti, why does rose parody gypsy's strip during rose's turn?
She replied to my email tonight. Her response was....Beats me, that's why I don't parody it in rose's turn.

Updated On: 5/10/08 at 12:37 AM

[Just_John]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:42am

Did she put the "Lol" at that end of that e-mail.

[BDavis0092]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:48am

Do you put question marks at the end of questions? had to...

[lakezurich]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:50am

You just got LuPwnd!!!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 8:56am

And did you learn a lesson from that encounter?

[sally1112]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:04am

I'm confused.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:38am

and THAT is why she is a diva. I hope you learned your lesson as well. Never cross Lupone without being prepared to be Luponded.

[BkCollector]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 10:11am

That's stupid. She didn't know why, she probably never even thought about it.

You know why? She's not a DIVA, she's not even an actress, she's just a mouth without a brain.

And it shows.

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:54pm

I think many actresses don't understand the role of the rose. I read in a book called Merman, A life. That Ethel Merman really didn't have any idea of what she was singing during rose's turn.
I think the only actress who really got the point of rose's turn was Bernadette Peters
Updated On: 5/10/08 at 12:54 PM

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 1:08pm

The Dailai Lama smells a sock puppet/Lupone hater in this thread....





YOU JUST GOT LUPWNED! NOW SHUT UP.

[BkCollector]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 2:07pm

Hey, keep posting pics of Patti looking ridiculous, you're just proving my point. She's a total hack.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 2:17pm

"You know why? She's not a DIVA, she's not even an actress, she's just a mouth without a brain."

Well then, keep em' coming!

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 3:51pm

YEP! Because any old hack who cannot act can make into and graduate from Juilliard.

Yep.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 6:41pm

Patti LuPone is the sun, the moon and the stars!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 8:51pm

I thought that was Tyler Haines.
Boy, are you fickle....

[jv92]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:17pm

Obviously, you didn't get the show. She's not making fun of Louise. She's having an f'ing nervous breakdown. And Patti is doing that nervous breakdown better than anyone.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:55pm

I guess you didn't see Lansbury's.

[BkCollector]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:04am

Who dares me to do it!

Mrs. Laurents,

There are a number of us who are musicians and can't fathom your success. You are a hallmark of bad vocal technique. So tell us, why does your jaw wobble so when you sing? Can you explain your stardom despite your lack of talent?

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:26am

I don't think rose was having a nervous breakdown. I think rose was just trying not to admit to herself that she did it all for herself.
If I'm wrong about this, than please correct me :)

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:27am

Some of the best opera singers have a jaw wobble. It is NOT always a sign of bad technique. And I don't believe Patti has done that as much until recently.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:28am

alx, roses turn is her having a breakdown. I mean... c'mon.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:34am

And in that breakdown, she is definitely mocking Gypsy's strp.

[BNN]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 1:13am

I never really thought of it as mocking Gypsy's strip itself, I always thought of it was her in expressing her grief over the fact that she pushed Louise to strip and she became successful and now wants nothing to do with the woman that made her.

In summary, I don't really know what the hell Rose is singing about, it's just extremely fascinating.

[johnnykluv]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 3:20am

I don't know if it matters if Merman knew what she was doing,but the result was amazing. Lansbury was great too. As far as Peters being the only one to understand it, her vocal problems that night and lack of confidence made it into a travesty despite her fine talent.
As for the person who keeps dissing Lupone, why don't you say what it is that makes you dislike her.

[Gypsy9]

Posted: 5/11/08 at 8:49am

With regard to "Rose's Turn", and having seen them all, I thought Patti LuPone's was brilliant, but no better than Ethel Merman's rousing rendition which is reflected in the OBC recording of GYPSY, which I consider the definitive version (although I miss the farmboys' singing "Broadway, Broadway"). As for Angela Lansbury's version of "Rose's Turn", I had the chance to see her in the London production in 1973 as well as the Broadway version one year later. Lansbury seemed to have changed her approach for NYC. She sang it much more angrily and bitterly at the Winter Garden than she had in London, really slamming it home, as if the NY audience wouldn't get it as a nervous breakdown unless she performed it that way. I also found her bowing to the audience in NY almost wooden. I think LuPone's reaction to the audience's applause was terrific, milking it and enjoying it, being finally accepted and even revered for once in her life, even if it is in her imagination. As I said in my long review several days ago, I don't even remember the way Bernadette Peters handled "Rose's Turn", feeling that she simply was miscast, although I acknowledge that she has many admirerers on this Board. Tyne Daly, who had tremendous stage presence as Rose, performed the final number sort of half way between Lansbury's and LuPone's approach. Although she didn't have the same vocal greatness as the other Roses, she made for an excellent lead. Incidentally, I also saw Linda Lavin as Rose, while Daly was on an extended vacation. Talk about miscasting! I saw her in it on New Year's Eve and was pleasantly distracted by the pre-midnight revelers through the exit doors of the St. James.