Rose's Turn

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:39pm

I'm looking for the exact dialogue in the bit right before the song...is the line "There wouldn't be signs big enough - there wouldn't be lights bright enough!" ? Thanks anyone who can help.

[Jimmcf]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:45pm

And you haven't any talent--

Not what I call talent!

Talent for the deaf, dumb, and blind, maybe.

Not an ounce of it, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee!

I made you!

And you want to know why?

You want to know what I did it for?

Because I was born too soon and started too late!

That's why.

With what I got in me,

I could have been better than any of you!

What I got in me,

What I've been holding down inside of me...

Oh, if I ever let it out,

There wouldn't be signs big enough!

There wouldn't be lights bright enough!

Here she is, boys..

Updated On: 3/7/05 at 02:45 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:50pm

Thank you so much!

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 2:59pm

Possibly one of the greatest dramatic monologues for a female in musical theatre. Gives me chills.

[actorgirl_21]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:20pm

Playing Mamma Rose in Gypsy is one of the major reasons I'm looking forward to getting older....I love that song and the monologue before it!

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:25pm

Just a heads up: the celebrated Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake (in Ontario, Canada) is doing GYPSY this summer. It's their first musical ever.

I've never seen GYPSY onstage, so I'm excited about this. I hope they don't screw it up!

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 3:47pm

Didn't they do Pal Joey and Floyd Collins last year?

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 4:16pm

Not that I know of (I would have gone to see PAL JOEY if the Shaw Festival was staging it). The article I read in the Toronto Star said this was their first musical.

[Bwaybaby109]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 4:18pm

actorgirl I'm with ya on that one! It's def one of my dream roles!

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 7:54pm

They definately did those two shows......but Gypsy is the first musical on the Festival Stage.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/7/05 at 8:23pm

Oh God, I got chills just reading it...