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 Sister Rose
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Did y'all see this?
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/86800.html
"Anyone who stays home is DEAD!"
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 6/16/2004 at 10:52:03 AM ET
I did see that, but wasn't it a reprint of something they published a few months ago? Curious.
|  Jarred1286
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3/14/2004 | posted: 6/16/2004 at 11:22:37 AM ET
yeah, they posted that a long time ago....cause it said, McArdle takes over MOMMA ROSE......and i thought they meant as in place of Bernadette, but yeah, it was a long time ago
"As the good lord says, "Ya gotta take the rough with the smoothe baby"
| Sister Rose
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I heard Andrea and her teen-age daughter sing last year at Broadway Under the Stars. I thought Andrea had a wonderful voice, but her daughter really struggled - I think she had stage fright. I'm trying to imagine "Annie" being "Mama Rose" - I'm not quite there yet, but I know there were a lot of naysayers when it came to Bernadette taking on Rose - and boy did she ever take it on!!!!
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| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 6/19/2004 at 6:47:26 PM ET
Unfortunately, the production sounds like a disaster.http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/theater/2631144
| Karen
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5/3/2002 | posted: 6/19/2004 at 6:50:13 PM ET
Oops, that link doesn't work. But there was a really terrible review in the Houston Chronicle. Too bad.
| Jarred1286
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3/14/2004 | posted: 6/19/2004 at 8:27:59 PM ET
Man, that's horrible....It does sound like a disater..And what is wrong with using a real lamb? They did it on Broadway...Too bad about the overture and the "tech difficulties".....sounds like the first hour (well 3, if you include the 7:30 "START") were very much a farce...wish i could have been there, every production after BP's is JUST a show..its no longer GYPSY...
"As the good lord says, "Ya gotta take the rough with the smoothe baby"
|  Chip1012
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I didn't see that article, but some productions use a stuffed lamb...and I think it can work...because its sad that a teenager would still be receiving stuffed animals, so if you look at in that sense. Like Rose still treated her like a baby.
"The child is so sweet and the girls are so rapturous. Isn't it lovely how artist's can capture us?~" Sunday in the Park with George
|  Rose
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Fav. BP Character: Rose/The Witch
Fav. BP CD: Gypsy
| posted: 6/21/2004 at 1:16:48 AM ET
I read that for a regional production they once used a sheep and it kept making noise into the microphone everytime Louise tried to sing.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
| Jarred1286
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3/14/2004 | posted: 6/21/2004 at 1:21:01 AM ET
it does make sense to use a stuffed one for the effect of Rose treating her daughters like babies, even at their age, plus the fact that they mess on stage, and would make noises.......i know the lambs wore diapers in the BP version....did anyone catch a show where the lamb upstaged tammy (like by making sounds)
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| Rose
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| posted: 6/21/2004 at 2:00:06 AM ET
The first time I saw Gypsy the lamb wouldn't stop licking Tammy's face and she was trying so hard not to laugh. The second time the lamb was trying to pull out of her arms.
"Oh no, you won't. No, not a chance. No arguements, shut up and dance."
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