Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy

[AAO26]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:45pm

[ljay889]

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

[cfmiller]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:54pm

It was the revolutionary costume of the day?

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:56pm

Do you want to get LuPwned???

this is nonsense.

[Dollypop]

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?

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:17pm

Actually 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.

[antiandrewx]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:19pm

And she throws it as she says "for you, June." It gives me chills every single time.

[BrodyFosse123]

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.

[theaterkid1015]

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]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:20pm

At the first preview at Encores!, she kicked it into the wings on the line "How do you like them eggrolls, Mr Goldstone"

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:32pm

Patti and Arthur completely re-worked the number for Broadway because Laurents was disappointed in it at Encores.

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:42pm

I always thought the smock was so that she didnt get lobster juice on her dress.

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:55pm

No. Soy sauce.

[PalJoey]

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.

Updated On: 5/29/08 at 11:08 PM

[nasty_khakis]

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

there's eggroll, aint there?

[lakezurich]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:19pm

I think some LuPownage is called for.


You Just Got LuPwned!!!

[AAO26]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:25pm

and you are a nasty and bitter person...

[lakezurich]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:29pm

I try my best?

[jennyish]

Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:31pm

Brody, don't judge an entire generation by a bunch of stupid posters on a message board.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:15am

I 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...

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:17am

Lupwned as in pwned it is funnier spelt that way.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:34am

And in case you don't understand "pwned," the internt has provided us with the ever-resourceful Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:36am

I wanna get LuPwned. Love it.

[ahmelie]

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]

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:38am

LakeZurich - thanks for LuPwning this mess. I was going to but I've already LuPwned an entire thread tonight. Kisses to all.