Patte LaBelle as Mama Rose

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 10:17am

GO!!!!!

[PattiLover]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 10:22am

You think it was bad when LuPone destroyed that person taking pictures? You ain't seen nothing til you've seen LaBelle on her tears. Sorry, the woman is a bitch. Trust me, I've first hand encounters with her legendary vileness.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 11:17am

The way she goes on and on trying to squeeze a high note out of every song? I love Patti, and I would cast her in anything that fit, but not this.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 11:58am

Yeah, everything's coming up roses would be thirteen minutes long, and that is without the obligatory repetition of the song's ending after the applause dies down.

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 11:37pm

Are you kidding? LaBelle singing the Styne/Sondheim score? My ears are already bleeding.

[JeanGudio]

Posted: 6/18/12 at 11:49pm

tonya pinkins ? maybe

[Wynbish]

Posted: 6/19/12 at 12:00am

Sheryl Lee Ralph!

"Stripping does not put food on the table. Stripping does not pay the bills. Stripping is no guarantee to a future, even if you have got talent."
"Mama, you know I can strip."
"So could your daddy, and he died still trying to make it."

Updated On: 6/19/12 at 12:00 AM

[bryan2]

Posted: 6/19/12 at 9:44am

and lets have Melissa Mccarthy as Effie Melody White
come on now -Rose was a fictional portrayal of a REAL person
I am all for colored blind casting but this is wrong
and PATTE would be rolling on the floor for 3 hrs SCREAMING FOOOOOOOOOR MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe

[Dollypop]

Posted: 6/19/12 at 12:28pm

Saw LaBelle in a production of HOUSE OF FLOWERS directed by Geoffrey Holder. She can't act (and Holder couldn't direct). Mama Rose needs to act.

Case closed.