"Rose's Turn" ~ Patti LuPone (GYPSY꞉ Broadway, 2008)

Patti near the end of her run in Gypsy. The Broadway legend at the top of her game. Enjoy!

[@edgarallennope]

This person risked their LIFE getting this footage

[@nahbirdie4773]

For real. The suspense in recording and the performance itself sent me down a confused state of suspense and intensity XD

[@10mimu]

@@FlyBoyMT LuPrath 😭💀

[@greatsongz1211]

Lololol

[@westley5735]

“AND IF IT WASNT FOR ME- excuse me is that a camera?..” 💀💀💀💀

[@10mimu]

@@westley5735 That part is beatiful, innit?

[@irinakermong1217]

Whoever filmed this is braver than any US Marine

[@NotyourNyx]

🫡

[@heloisamarryy]

KKKKKKKKK

[@hollabigT]

I saw this production and after this number I immediately stood up and started cheering - she paced the stage and walked right over to me and pointed! My little gay ass was sent to heaven.

[@bonkatonka]

I would passout just having that woman even LOOK in my direction

[@kaitlynrowena5463]

Pointed at you in a bad way? Or good

[@charlottethomsen8076]

@@kaitlynrowena5463would’ve been a bad way. Patti is notorious for stopping her performances to call out people she feels are disrespectful of the atmosphere of a theatre. Show filmers, talkers, etc.

[@tessagrey7525]

Not the cameraman risking is life to get this bootleg. Patti Lupone is vicious😆

[@fountainchain126]

Patti was terrifying in this part. Her Everything’s Coming Up Roses is the most disturbing interpretation I’ve ever seen, and here in Rose’s Turn we truly see a psychotic breakdown before our eyes. She earned every best actress award that season on Broadway, each one so deserved.

[@ACinemafanatic]

Angela did it first in 1974

[@fountainchain126]

@@ACinemafanatic she did what first?

[@ACinemafanatic]

@@fountainchain126 I meant to say did it where she had the mental breakdown part of roses turn it’s genuinely terrifying if you find it on KZbin.

[@jlasf]

@@ACinemafanatic Saw Patti live. Saw video of Angela. Respectfully disagree. Patti goes deeper emotionally and seems truly psychotic. A lacerating performance. And, in some ways, accurate. According to stories, Rose Hovick wasn't just a "stage mother", she was deeply disturbed and may have killed a woman. At any rate, I am sparing with standing ovations, but leapt to my feet for this performance. I don't know how actors throw themselves into roles like this night after night.

[@ACinemafanatic]

@@jlasf I see what you’re saying but Angela’s approach first did it where rose seems like she’s snapped for a bit with her bowing like there’s an audience cheering for her and she’s smiling almost psychotically and then Patti I think really went more deranged with it a bit darker as well with her portrayal

[@WillowLackett]

Patti still gives a fresh take on her roles, even after decades. Moreover, she's truly splendid for sparing the life of the bootlegger during the time of this filming. I only hope she was quick and merciful with their demise thereafter.

[@MsCchapman]

Having worked on Bway for many years and met the legend that is Patti Lupone … yes she is an alien in that she is otherworldly in her capacity to strike equal parts of complete fear and utter joy with every performance. She is a stellar star. Period.

[@robertgraziano]

You dare not even blink when Patti Lupone is performing!

[@wickedlyblonde1]

Wow it’s really a different performance every night huh. How thrilling.

[@scswp6945]

Yes, I think it really was. I saw Patti in this twice - a matinee and an evening performance on the same day (I know - mad!) and her evening performance of this was very different to the way she had performed it a few hours earlier. I thought it was quite strange at the time (and still do, I think). In London, I saw Imelda Staunton in the role three times and her performance seemed completely identical each time - exactly the same intonations, gestures etc… Staunton’s performance was my favourite, but it seemed identical each time. Patti’s performances were quite different on the day I saw them.

[@user-ih4fd9sf8x]

@@scswp6945 thats how you know she is the best Rose. She can improvise so well and her versatility is impressive

[@SymphonyBrahms]

@@scswp6945 LuPone was great and so was Staunton.

[@savechuu]

the cameraman is a national hero🫡

[@73682]

omg chuu im such a big fan

[@princepeterwolf]

I don't know how can anyone watch this and not love musical theater, that was incredible she was born to play this role

[@lizjones4994]

I saw this on Broadway, it was awesome. Standing ovation at the end. Most of the audience was overcome with emotion, many in tears.

[@mvalbiro8860]

I saw this production so many times back then that I actually lost count. Gypsy is a great show but there will NEVER be another production like this one everrrrrrr!

[@jlasf]

I saw the show and I got the feeling she was playing everything that came before at a level 7 intensity. We know she can blast it whenever she wants. So, I was a bit surprised so much seemed a bit muted. But then I realized she was saving it up for the end. She turned its up to 11, as they say in "Spinal Tap."

[@FlimFlamFloom]

Patti was incredible. She gave a complete performance. This was the 8 1/2 minute breakdown, combined with the scene she just did with Laura. Superb.

[@nahbirdie4773]

Bless you for risking your life like this! And thank you! So many of us live over seas or well years have passed. Never would we have been able to see this live. So seeing this really means a lot

[@TheReturnOfStephan1]

The literal manifestation of a "no holds barred" performance! I'm literally shaking, thinking about everything that ran through Momma Rose's head in this moment. It can be, either, traumatizing or liberating, and PLP took from BOTH columns!

[@RegeneOdon]

I love how this night’s portrayal was different from the other bootleg iykyk

[@ahhhhhhnah]

I saw this live in 08 and it was easily one of the most impactful theatrical experiences I’ve ever had

[@trex1563]

100 years from now, they'll be referencing this performance. Mark. My. Words......

[@TheReturnOfStephan1]

If they're smart...

[@clown_catz]

Try 2 years it’s a tik tok sound

[@maxm745]

Full body chills, she is insanely good.

[@user-we7vf6di7u]

Why did I do it? What did it get me? Scrapbooks full of me in the background. Give 'em love and what does it get ya? What does it get ya? One quick look as each of 'em leaves you. All your life and what does it get ya? Thanks a lot and out with the garbage, They take bows and you're battin' zero. I had a dream. I dreamed it for you, June. It wasn't for me, Herbie. And if it wasn't for me then where would you be, Miss Gypsy Rose Lee? Well, someone tell me, when is it my turn? Don't I get a dream for myself? Starting now it's gonna be my turn. Gangway, world, get off of my runway! Starting now I bat a thousand! This time, boys, I'm taking the bows and Everything's coming up Rose! Everything's coming up roses! Everything's coming up roses this time for me! For me! For me! For me! For me! For me! For me!

[@rightweaponry908]

Bruh, tears, literally, this woman is soo powerful.

[@palmereldritch7777]

And That ladies and Gentlemen is what a hurricane feels like. (includ. the eye of the storm).

[@dusty13b]

First time seeing her or this. She is AMAZING

[@corra7]

Saw this production….brilliant

[@1marilynable]

I understand this performance in ways that I cant explain. some of us go through hard times or traumatic events that we can't really come back from mentally. Or over time it's warped us. A lot of our lives now aren't pretty....Tbh I can't really function anymore. I can't work, because I have outbursts or I can't get along with anyone, I really do try so hard, but ppl don't like me after awhile if we get along at all. At this point I have franticly crazed periods of days where I can't sleep mostly 2-3 but sometimes up to 4 days, and I'm scary. And this happens at least 2 or mostly 4 times a month.... I get the feeling my boyfriend is honestly done with me after 6 years. He's said that he can't be with me unless I can get the proper help. I'm looking to go into inpatient treatment, I've literally tried everything i can think of. I'm not going to go into everything but...I was stabbed one night and punctured lung. A stalker who I didn't even know followed me home from a bar. It was 6 months of death threats and basically anxiety hell before he actually stabbed me. I was only 24 in 2014 and this guy was 48 and truly needed help. He's in prison now. That's all I will say. I feel like Patty's portrayal on stage of a scary frantic woman is a real thing...i know some people might think it's weird to post all this on here, but I don't post it anywhere or even talk about it to ppl. Theater can get you to emotionally connect with a song or even a character. Im embarrassed to say I cried for awhile after watching this. Because I know what this is like.

[@bobbullen6722]

What a delight!

[@unclealand]

Everything people said about Patti LuPone in "Gypsy" was true. I bet she's secretly pleased that these hoary, bootleg clips of her performance exist.

[@nahbirdie4773]

Holy damn. Great quality!

[@heloisamarryy]

Patti é incrível meu deus

[@claragarland3775]

Yessss high quality 🥳🥳

[@asecondchancemusical5907]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!! Astoundingly amazing!!!

[@JoaoMelo9]

Best quality I've ever seen ❤️

[@tonyparadise7801]

She is just the best!!!

[@mccallbohanan9834]

Absolutely phenomenal !!!!!! I love Patti

[@grai]

This number always reminds me of Garland for some reason I always wonder if Judy Garland had been born into an era where her talent had been better looked after maybe in her 40s/50s she could have done Mama Rose I think she would have been incredible No disrespect to LaPone who is clearly a genius that's been established

[@user-gz9uk4rn5p]

garland auditioned jerry they all wanted her BUT couldnt risk...

[@grai]

@@user-gz9uk4rn5p so sad for her that she just became too troubled as a person to be reliable but equally sad for the public in general We were robbed when she died at 47 But from day one Garland never really stood a chance Even when she was a child her own mother was cashing in

[@cjane717]

Absolutely stunning performance. thank you much to whomever recorded this.

[@neptunek...]

caught during this song??? dead

[@JoannesVodkaStinger]

Wow... I didn't watch this, because I assumed it was from one of the other 2008 boots (you know what assuming does!), but someone informed me I was wrong, so I skipped right over here. This is AMAZING! Truly wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing it!

[@donnalabartunek6556]

ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!!

[@TheYvanab]

Sem imagem ou com câmera tremida... ela é sensacional!! Maravilhosa!!!!

[@bookwoman53]

I’d like to see what Jodi Benson does with the part of Mama Rose. She was cast in a production last year I think.

[@collinkilloran5721]

So good

[@delfinavaldez2710]

thank you for this omg

[@tomorobo4472]

hello everybody! My name's *ROSE!!!!!!!* What's yours!

[@dollyhood6549]

As a Hocus Pocus fan this finally makes sense lol

[@apolloadamos8771]

Sing it, Seabiscuit!!!!

[@davirhestudios]

3:36 Rose's turns

[@minidriver9344]

Patti Lupone is the only actress who had to act LESS CRAZY than she really is to play Mama Rose

[@dvoss3658]

Thanks for this video

[@WillScarlet16]

The way I like to see it - if Ethel Merman was like a charging rhino in this role, Patti is a tigress about to pounce.

[@buggiemara4902]

Holy shit, so this is where the Avenue Q song came from. hahaha

[@Deeoliviero]

wow

[@kimkim8281]

❤

[@jamescampbell2190]

Eat your heart out, Bernadette.

[@isaaccamelobernardesdacost2286]

2:24 The day you are tired of pretending to like some people

[@beaellie9766]

Geez.....shook.

[@Mercurygotsilly]

Who did it better? Kurt or rose?

[@kbye2321]

Patti, probably.

[@hamptoncalhoun2651]

Kind of rude to not credit Kurt Hummel on the song he wrote 🙄

[@kbye2321]

Jules Styne? Stephen Sondheim? Who? (I know it’s a joke, just wanted to put it out there.)

[@SymphonyBrahms]

STOP THAT FILMING!

[@dollyhood6549]

Jesus Christ …

[@frankiebowie6174]

I really like Patti as a person and she’s done some great work - mostly on roles she originated - but sometimes I wish she’d stop ACTING so hard.

[@user-cf7pe3qg1c]

Give me Angela Lansbury any day.

[@adadc4052]

Painful!!!

[@danielnapoli649]

Love Ms lu pone but she is no Rosalyn Russell

[@Broadwaybuff-pi1qg]

Thank god, as the actress you're referring to was actually spelled Rosalind, and she could barely sing.

[@johnflynn9619]

Ethel Merman was more believable & better voice. This interpretation is over the top.

[@matthamilton875]

It’s a woman having a mental breakdown like cabarets title song it’s meant to be an over the top portrayal of an absolute psychotic break

[@marybethkuznik6118]

@@matthamilton875 or maybe Rose is just a woman coming to terms with her life and finally realizing what motivated her for all those decades. . . one doesn't need to go psychotic and scream to do that

[@johnflynn9619]

@@marybethkuznik6118 I Agree.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

Every performer brings their own interpretation to the role of Madame Rose. Merman created it and it was a powerhouse performance. Lansbury gave a performance that was a masterclass in acting. Daly also acted the role brilliantly. LuPone brought forth the desperation and manic energy of the role. Staunton was another masterclass in acting. As for Peters, I will draw the curtain of charity over her performance. She just wasn't right for the role. I like her in almost everything else that she's done, but not in Gypsy. And not as Dolly. Just not right for her.

[@gabrielcampbell9462]

@@SymphonyBrahmsi do agree… also in the peters fact, her voice was to little for the role, she needs more fierce or power I guess.

[@BroadwayGuy]

Does anyone else think Patti is not really playing Mama Rose by this point? It's more...DIVA LA LUPONE....WATCH ME!! It's overblown... exageratated. Okay, LA LUPONE IS LA LUPONE, but I'm not particularly impressed. Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, and even Bernadette Peters, had more subtlety and humanity in the role. Betty Buckley (Paper Mill Playhouse: 1998) was an exploding volcano. Okay, LA LUPONE-- it's YOUR turn-- but she just seems to be showing off and screaming here (just my opinion).

[@FlimFlamFloom]

You never saw this live. You're judging this on a video. Sit down.

[@charliecharlie2288]

I agree

[@followtibbs]

thank you! somebody finally said it cause I wasn’t brave enough to… i get what she’s doing but it doesn’t t hit for me! It’s the very end of the show and defines her whole performance. I would’ve been disappointed seeing this live.

[@Broadwaybuff-pi1qg]

Um, she's having a nervous breakdown.

[@MrWhiskeycricket]

Literally no one but musical theater people think she can sing. She's loud, but it always seems like the same note.

[@stegmanrichard]

Worst Rose Ever.

[@Broadwaybuff-pi1qg]

Best Rose Ever

[@stegmanrichard]

Never. @@Broadwaybuff-pi1qg

[@Eddiegen]

Simply awful.

[@Eddiegen]

Comical

[@goddessmodel]

terrible