Just - er - stuff
The play last night was pretty good considering it’s a community college production and all. ;-) It turned out to be about the worst mother in the history of mothers. It was a true story and apparently the mother basically ’sold’ her daughter out to be a stripper when she was only 15.
She starts out as a stage mom who thinks her daughters are just ‘all that’ and is pushing them to be in showbusiness (Vaudville), presumably because she wanted to be in it herself. After much pushing and prodding and placing the younger, blonde daughter in the spotlight and the older, brown haired daughter back into the chorus, and making them both act like little girls, the blonde gets sick of it and at 13 runs off and marries a guy from the chorus. The mother then turns her aspirations on the other daughter.
They end up in Burlesque, presumably by accident, but go ahead and perform there. The day they are leaving, the head stripper can’t go on, so the mother says, “My daughter can do it.” So she tells her to do it but remember that she’s a lady and not to take anything off, just tease them. Time passes and of course, the girl becomes more of a stripper.
If you read more about her life, online or somewhere, you find out that she was one of the best well-known strippers of that time. She went on later to star in some b-films and do things like that. When she died she left over a million dollar estate.
She wrote down her memoirs, which is what the play is based on - and apparently, “Gypsy” is a very famous broadway play.
Shows you how much I know!
But I didn’t know what the play was about, obviously, when I went. Sarah and Sheila went with me. Yeah, I don’t think either of them (or myself included) were impressed with what it ended up being in the end. But I don’t think Sarah understood as much either. She did not like the three strippers that were there or their song or how they were dressed, lol. It wasn’t bad, not like what she’s seen in Chicago, but I guess it was different to her because it was on stage or something.
HA come to find out, the main stripper… I kept saying, she looks familiar. She was my friggin biology lab teacher!! That was scary, but she was really good. The main guy in there (wants to marry the mother, but she never will marry him, he leaves when she says the girl can strip) was my teacher for Logic and Ethics. He was pretty good, too.
We didn’t get out of there until 11:00 (I assumed it would be 10, 10:30 at the very latest). Then I had to stop at Walmart and get gas, so I didn’t get home until about 12:30, not bad I guess, considering most of that was driving. But Sarah has testing today for her green belt, actually, she’s probably testing right now. Elizabeth is testing for black belt today, too. Sheila is working today, she will test for black belt in September.
Speaking of Elizabeth, she kinda hurt my feelings. We were supposed to go to the play me, Sheila, and Elizabeth. But then the day before, Elizabeth said she didn’t want to go anymore because she wanted to “stay home and sleep, I’ve got testing the next day.” So Sarah wanted to go, so I let her take the ticket we had reserved for Elizabeth. I pick S&S up and Elizabeth’s there just out of the shower. We leave and Sheila tells me that she’s “going bowling with L.” I was like wtf? that’s real nice, ditch me to go do something else. Well, L didn’t call until after she said she wasn’t going with me, but still. I just felt like, “gee thanks.”
Oh well…
