Monday, May 21, 2012

Insight into Gypsy

Currently I am a member of the Gypsy cast playing Louise. We are just started blocking for the show and I've been working on songs and memorizing lines. So far, I have the entire Act 1 memorized. 

I've also been trying to explore my character from reading the script and how the book describes her interactions with other characters. Louise loves her sister and her mother and desperately wants to please her mother. The girl has had 3 fathers so when Herbie, the agent, tried to be a father figure to her, Louise pushes him away, thinking he's just an agent, he doesn't really care. It's not until Herbie tries to make real the dream Louise has of having a plain man for a father and a house and a family does Louise truly accept Herbie into their "family." Louise also has a huge crush on Tulsa, one of the boys in the acts. For the longest time, Louise was always a boy in the acts her mother puts on, so she was probably buddies with all the boys. However, she can't help liking this boy, who is cute, talented, and nice. 

This is just a little insight into who Gypsy Rose Lee was before she was Gypsy Rose Lee.

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