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

Posted by:	Delvino 08:35 pm EST 11/22/14
In reply to:	re: Todays's Random Question: Gypsy (long answer) - AlanScott 07:38 pm EST 11/22/14

I think kids identify with June and Louise, easily. Older ones, with Gypsy. It's a show about detaching, finding an identity. That's why the second act is so brilliant, of course; it takes us deep into the mother-daughter dynamic, raising the stakes once Gypsy is created and Rose's role wanes. It's that arc -- very real and universal, despite the show biz milieu -- that shakes people. Every child has to separate from a parent(s), every parent has to let go. It's scary real.

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

Posted by:	Greg_M 12:31 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	re: Todays's Random Question: Gypsy (long answer) - Delvino 08:35 pm EST 11/22/14

I first saw "Gypsy" when I was 8 and thought Rose was a monster - If I were one of her kids I would have run away. . . far, far away

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