The ground represents Mother Earth's vagina and the trees represent all of the penises in the world that are trying to take over the wholesome vagina and turn her into a whore.
I always love on the filmed Broadway DVD how the lights went out over Westenberg and he jumped on the very final note of "Hello Little Girl." Always creeped me out, in a good way.
That photo is turning me on..is something wrong with me?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
I don't understand the references in this thread -- I'd better see the movie soon so I can figure it out. As for "wives," I don't have one, let alone more than one. Women definitely aren't my thing. But show me a cute guy, and even as a 60-year-old grandmother, I'm quite capable of panting just like the younger folks on this board.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.