| re: "Momma Rose" (How dare you!!!!!!) | |
| Posted by: ADFeldman 04:33 pm EST 12/21/24 | |
| In reply to: re: "Momma Rose" (How dare you!!!!!!) - Chromolume 11:13 am EST 12/20/24 | |
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| I understand your position, but I'm willing to die on this hill. No, she's not called by that name in the script. But she's been called that in the public discourse *around* the show since at least 1963, when Walter Kerr—the musical's biggest champion—called her "Mama Rose" in The Theater in Spite of Itself. It's not what she's called in the show, but it IS what she's called in the culture that has evolved surrounding the show. (Hamlet is never called the Melancholy Dane in Shakespeare's text, either.) It's that tradition that I honor and perpetuate when I call her Mama Rose, and it's my brand of pedantry to use Kerr's spelling. Your pedantry may differ! But if you're going to be that fussy in your textual originalism, you should know that she's "Madam" Rose, not "Madame." :) | |
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