Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
#2re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:48pm
??? Because Rose can't really afford anything else?
How do we know?
Updated On: 5/28/08 at 09:48 PM
#2re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:54pmIt was the revolutionary costume of the day?
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#3re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:56pm
Do you want to get LuPwned???
this is nonsense.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:15pm
I assume you're talking about the powder blue coat she wears in several scenes. Right?
Be attentive to that coat. It has paint stains on it and the colors are of the sets in her kids' vaudeville acts. This is a Mama Rose who not only devises the routines, she paints the sets as well. It symbolizes all the things she's done for her kids.
LuPone removes the coat at the beginning of "Rose's Turn" when she stops living for her two daughters and realizes she should be living for herself. She either kicks it into the wings or tosses it there (depending on her mood at that performance) in a gesture that symbolizes her tossing away her past.
Didn't you ever learn to watch a performance carefully?
#5re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:17pmActually she holds the smock in ROSE'S TURN for the "I had a dream section." It's perfect. Because the smock WAS her dream. That smock with all of the paint stains represent everything she worked so hard for.
#6re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:19pmAnd she throws it as she says "for you, June." It gives me chills every single time.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#7re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:20pm
Oh, Dollypop... you should know better about today's generation.
If it ain't spelled out in letters, they ain't gettin' it. Symbolism is a lost art to this generation of 'paid-by-the-numbers' idiots. 
Just take a gander at the hords of dumbass common sense (to us, at least) questions they ask about EVERYTHING! You virtually have to go step-by-step with an explanation as they can't figure ANYTHING out for themselves.
#8re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:20pm
Just so you all know, that's not merely a "smock."
It's Dior, from its head to its toes.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:20pmAt the first preview at Encores!, she kicked it into the wings on the line "How do you like them eggrolls, Mr Goldstone"
#10re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:32pmPatti and Arthur completely re-worked the number for Broadway because Laurents was disappointed in it at Encores.
#11re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:42pmI always thought the smock was so that she didnt get lobster juice on her dress.
#13re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:08pm
Patti and Arthur completely re-worked the number for Broadway because Laurents was disappointed in it at Encores.
You mean, Patti and Arthur completely re-worked the number for Broadway because Laurents MIS-DIRECTED it at Encores.
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#15re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:19pm
I think some LuPownage is called for.
You Just Got LuPwned!!!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#16re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:25pmand you are a nasty and bitter person...
#17re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:29pmI try my best?
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#18re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:31pmBrody, don't judge an entire generation by a bunch of stupid posters on a message board.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#19re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:15amI get the idea of being "LuPwned" but don't understand why it is spelled that way instead of "LuPoned". Can someone explain it? I might've just missed where the BWW joke originated...
#20re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:17amLupwned as in pwned it is funnier spelt that way.
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#21re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:34amAnd in case you don't understand "pwned," the internt has provided us with the ever-resourceful Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#23re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:28am
A few friends in my theater class have taken to saying "LuPwned!"
My one teacher nearly peed himself the first time he heard that.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#24re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:38amLakeZurich - thanks for LuPwning this mess. I was going to but I've already LuPwned an entire thread tonight. Kisses to all.
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