"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
The entire score and every scene. It is the finest musical ever written. (No one needs to point out that this is only my opinion. I am already aware of that.)
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1. Overture 2. Some People 3. Scene between June and Louise before If Mamma Was Married 4. Together 5. Louise's scene with the mirror right before the Strip 6. The Strip 7. Confrontation Scene before Rose's Turn 8. Rose's Turn 9. Final scene
The Overture, Rose's Entrance ("Sing Out Louice...SIng OUT!"), "Some People", "Small World", The hotel room scene, "Litttle Lamb", The restaurant scene, scene in Grantzinger's office, "If Mamma Was Marrried", "Everything's Coming Up Roses", "Together Wherever we Go", All scenes with Tessie Tura, "You Gotta Have a Gimmick", Gypsy's transformationa nd strip montage, The argument scene, "Rose's Turn" and Rose's final wistful glance at the stage as she and Gypsy exit.
THe cast album with Ethel Merman is still my favourite show album of all time. Wow she poured a LOT of anger into that one. SHe was going through a divorce so maybe she used that to fuel her. Whatever it was, it's chilling to hear! (We did an interview with her in 1979 and the announcer asked how she pulled off GYPSY because it seemed like method acting with the force and control. Miss Merman shrugged and and said "well I guess you either got it or you ain't!")
It's an amzingly tight script. A friend of mine was producing and directing a community theatre staging last fall and was looking to trim it down to about 2 1/2 hours. (His shows play to older audiences who get restless whne they go on too long.) He found he couldn't cut any lines because if you cut this one, that one won't make sense. He left it at 3 hours and no one complained because they were so caught up in it.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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Rose's Turn... CHILLS. I'm not even listening to it and I have goosebumps.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
I love Rose's Turn and the ending hamonies of If Mamma Was Married, but one of my favorite numbers is Gotta Have a Gimmick- especially on the latest recording
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
Well i've got a soft spot for Tulsa because i played that role. My fave bit ever though was the confrontation scene. We had a really really bad Mama Rose (one guy actually put ear plugs in when she, i use this in the loosest term possible, sang) but Louise was amazing. She was truely captivating especially when she blew her top.
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
The musical is flawless, but I have to say that my favorite scene is always the one where "Louise" looks into the mirror and says: "I'm pretty. I'm a preety girl Mama". That and Louise's Strip routine in the Garden of Eden setting always "get me". Updated On: 6/25/05 at 08:54 PM
"Rose's Turn" if done just right will give you goosebumps into next century. Voice on the verge of cracking, heck Rose's sanity on the verge of cracking, mixed with hope, anger, longing...