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Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy

Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy

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#1Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:45pm

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ljay889
#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

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cfmiller
#2re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:54pm

It was the revolutionary costume of the day?

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TooDarnHot
#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
#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?


"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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ljay889
#5re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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.

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antiandrewx
#6re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:19pm

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

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BrodyFosse123
#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. re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy

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.

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theaterkid1015
#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.


Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

Dollypop
#9re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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"


"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

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ljay889
#10re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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.

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bertandrew2
#11re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:42pm

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

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ljay889
#12re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:55pm

No. Soy sauce.

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PalJoey
#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.


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

nasty_khakis
#14re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:12pm

there's eggroll, aint there?

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lakezurich
#15re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:19pm

re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy

I think some LuPownage is called for.


You Just Got LuPwned!!!


Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"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

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AAO26
#16re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:25pm

and you are a nasty and bitter person...

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lakezurich
#17re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:29pm

I try my best?


Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!

"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

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jennyish
#18re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:31pm

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


I chose, and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not.

iluvtheatertrash
#19re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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...


"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

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defyingravity07
#20re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:17am

Lupwned as in pwned it is funnier spelt that way.

SweeneyPhanatic
#21re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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


-- SDG

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WiCkEDrOcKS
#22re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:36am

I wanna get LuPwned. Love it.

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ahmelie
#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.


Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. -John Patrick Shanley

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TooDarnHot
#24re: Why is Patti wearing a smock? Gypsy
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.


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