The Rosie bashing is so interesting to me...

Could it harken back to the age old battle between the homosexuals and the lesbiasexuals? I agree with you, Al -- she is the same person. Perhaps the image she projected on her talk show seeped into the consciousness of the public -- as if that was REALLY her. Geez.

I'm split on Rosie. I both love and hate a lot of things about her. I love the fact that she's dumped the closety-cuddly 'queen of nice' act and is being herself: a big, loud in-your-face dyke who is willing to put her money where her mouth is for a Broadway show. That takes a LOT of guts. The funny thing is, after all that, TABOO just does not interest me.

But I hate the fact that she has REAL problems dealing with people who work with her. She can be an absolute harridan to her underlings. And that's coming back to bite her ass.

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True Master but my point is that she's ALWAYS been this person. I would chalk it up to what RL said and blame it on the usual "homophobia thing" but, it's the theater community, her staunchest supporters, who've so viciously turned on her and that's fascinating to me.

Updated On: 11/2/03 at 10:56 AM

wrong! She has not always been this person. She became this person during the run of her tv show. Something about the fame changed her. I know quite a few people who have known her for a long time and they all agree that she has changed and for the worse. Another celebrity who came to think that fame and money equals intelligence.

She has a reputation for being hard to work for, but from what I've read it's more that she has a high level of expectation. If you want to work for her you either rise to that level or she finds someone who will. I've spoken with people who worked for the RO show and they were happy and only had good things to say. I'm indifferent towards Rosie but I find the Rosie bashing interesting as well and the mean spiritedness is annoying.

Why are people picking on Rosie for wanting to put on the best show possible (whether she does or not is another issue)? I applaud her energy and for wanting to create something special. I want her to succeed even if the show is lousy because I admire someone who wants something, and goes after it. She wanted to bring TABOO to Broadway, and she did. Why should I care if she's not easy to work with? If I only went to productions performed and staged by people who were easy to get along with, I doubt I would see many shows.

If I were to attack someone, I would attack the arrogant producers of THE BOY FROM OZ for simply putting Hugh Jackman on stage, and not giving a damn about the rest of the show. Even if Jackman IS the selling points of the show, the producers could have made the musical so much better. Instead, they just relied on Jackman's star power.

I think she's being attacked for a variety of reasons. 1.She's a lesbian. 2.She's a woman. 3.Jealousy 4.The desire to see someone fail. 5.Most people don't know who the hell Leigh Bowery is. 6. It's not a revival or a family-friendly musical.7.Rosie's advertising campaign was a muddle. 8. People are scared/disturbed by Boy George's LB makeup.

i bash her for none of the above reasons. I bash her because she treats people like dirt and thinks that because she yells the loudest that makes her right. She may think that all that she is doing is trying to make the best product but she is too blinded by her own ego to 1.treat people with even a modicum of respect,2. to trust the people she has hired to do thier jobs.
Many people have managed to create broadway shows and make them the best they can in thier vision without alienating almost everyone around them

no.

I never liked Rosie and you will never be able to find a posting from me that claimed I did. I was always supicious of this woman. After all, who was she? A stand-up comic who did a few undistinguished supporting roles in films? Then she came to Broadway in that ill-conceived revival of GREASE and everyone seemed to consider her the greatest thing to his the Great White Way since Laurette Taylor.

When she wheedled her way into a talk show, I couldn't take her seriously, but Middle America did. Whatever Rosie said became gospel truth. I tried watching her TV show a few times but realized I had better things to do with my time than to watch drivel.

However, all my suspicions about this woman became a reality when I met her at a concert at Lincoln Center. He was rude, vulgar and disgusting.

Don't ever let it be said that Dollypop liked Rosie.

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i do not work for the show but i know many who do. the reason i am so vehement about its future is because i have never ever ever ever heard of a show where even the guys who stand to lose money from its closing want it to fail. the actors, crew and theater personnel despise her so much that they just want this show to die so they can move on to a new show with sane people who 1. know what they are doing, and 2. treat people with respect.

Does anyone else think that Rosie wouldn't be bashed nearly so much if she were a Republican?

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The Rosie worship was certainly NOT universal. In fact, when she was riding high my entire circle of theatrical acquaintances referred to her as a "necessary evil", but one which had so many downsides (such as shaky theatrical judgement) that her true value was questionable. So, the Rosie bashing now is not a big surprise.

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