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re: Todays's Random Question: Gypsy (long answer)

Posted by:	LegitOnce 08:47 am EST 11/22/14
In reply to:	re: Todays's Random Question: Gypsy (long answer) - AlanScott 03:32 am EST 11/22/14

Yet another unpleasant truth stated in Gypsy is that however horrible your parents were, they were primarily responsible for making you into whatever you are today. Without Rose, and, more to the point, without Rose's obnoxious drive, there would never have been such a person as Gypsy Rose Lee. A lesser (or, depending on how you look at it a more human) woman than Rose would have thrown in the towel after June quit the act, married Herbie, and then they would have done something about Louie's lack of education. She might have gone into some form of show business, or she might have gone to college and then married someone pleasant and respectable-- we don't know, but the point is that if Rose had not been Rose, Louise would never have started stripping. An older actor friend said that he happened to score a single ticket for Gypsy in the first week or two of its first run, before the OCR and before the plot was common knowledge. He said that when June left and Rose was confronted with "what happens now," he was absolutely certain her next line would be "all right, Herbie, I'll marry you." When Rose turned to Louise and said "I'm going to make you a star," he told me, the whole audience gasped, and there were even some cries of "No!" People didn't go to commercial theater in those days to be shocked, and they damn well didn't expect good old reliable Ethel Merman to turn into a monster before their eyes. Gypsy

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