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| Last Edit: Roman 03:40 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| Posted by: Roman 03:35 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The problem is… - Glamourboy 02:53 pm EDT 07/31/22 | |
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| I don’t know that your examples (not getting the part, initially; “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty”, ) support a counterpoint to ShowGoer’s observations. In fact, I think they support ShowGoer’s position. She actually DOES get the part. Because, as ShowGoer states, she believes in herself. “If A Girl Isn’t Pretty” are the beliefs of others. Not Fanny. The song and others’ lack-of-faith never impede her determination. She’s confused they don’t see what she does (“it must be a plot! ‘Cause they’re scared that I’ve got such a gift!”). She hears the song and Keeny’s words. She knows what’s she looks like (“you think beautiful girls are gonna stick around forever? I should say Not! Any minute they’ll be out! Finished! Then it will be my turn!”; “I’m a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! No one recognizes me!”) This is why she doesn’t want to sing in the Ziegfeld finale. She doesn’t want to be laughed at for her looks. It’s a moment we see such delicate vulnerability in someone we’ve come to know as very confident. And then to have someone so attractive take and interest in her…? She knows she’s the greatest star. What she is less familiar with is someone seeing beyond her looks to the woman she is. Marriages fail. But this is the only real knockdown she gets. (“It’s all happening so fast! Where the suffering you have to do before ya click?!” Eddie and Mrs. Brice say something like “Cheer up! Maybe you’ll suffer later!”). And she does stand at the end as says she’ll cry a little later as she rallies herself with the Parade reprise. |
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