Talk:Gypsy: A Musical Fable
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[edit] Various edits
I want to clarify some of my thinking, as people have put in a lot of work and thought to this article, and I don't want anyone to think that I haven't been carefully reading--and appreciating-- the work.
- I've put back a sentence into the opening, to show the importance of this play--it just seems to fit, right up front. The trivia section does not read very well, it is just a collection of bits and pieces, I'd like to see the items integrated. I removed the sentence about amateur productions as being somewhat irrelevant. The item on being in a book is not very useful, Gypsy is in many many books.
- The sentence in trivia: "The role of Mamma Rose is seen as one of the biggest ever written for the stage." is certainly true, but perhaps can be expanded, or added onto the Frank Rich statement about "King Lear". As it stands, it is perhaps too self-evident, almost a little bit close to point-of-view.
- I've added some specific comments about the character of "Rose" to replace the more general statement noted above (in Trivia), and removed the sentence from Trivia.JeanColumbia 12:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- We use, variously, "Mama Rose", "Mamma Rose", and "Rose". I've even seen her referred to as "Madame Rose". I'm beginning to prefer just "Rose". She is listed that way in the playbill of the 2003 revival and on the Internet Broadway Database. Until someone gets a script, I'm in favor of "Rose".
- Today I looked at the printed script on Google books--it does not seem to refer to her by any other name but "Rose". However, enough critics (Walter Kerr, Frank Rich) do refer to her as "Mama Rose" so that I will not worry about this. JeanColumbia 12:35, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
- Using the heading "Patti Lupone Producton" really doesn't seem logical to me, unless we use, uniformly, the "Ethel Merman Production", etc. Probably some writers do that, in newspaper and magazine articles, but I've not seen that usage in Wikipedia for other plays that have revivals. (This has nothing to do with Ms. LuPone but rather terminology.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JeanColumbia (talk • contribs) 00:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Trivia
The Wikpedia article on trivia states: "This page in a nutshell: Lists of facts, as found in trivia sections, are better presented within the context of the text rather than in a section of unrelated items." reference: WP:TRIV. JeanColumbia 12:01, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
