# GLEE 5/11 Episode: Laryngitis \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159 "2010-05-12T12:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159/41 "2010-05-13T04:46:47Z")
For anyone not familiar with “Rose’s Turn” (the song Kurt sang), the lyrics and the mood might not make sense. It’s the final number of _Gypsy_ and it’s been sung by pretty much every Broadway musical diva over 30 at some point. For those who haven’t seen _Gypsy_, Rose- the mother of two daughters- is an absolutely shameless stage mother who drags and propels daughters kicking and screaming into show business stardom, sometimes headlining and more often hustling for a buck in increasingly dive venues and running from the bill collectors. Her younger daughter, June, the pretty and talented one in Rose’s opinion, elopes at 14 to get away from her, then near the end of the show her ugly duckling older daughter Louise becomes Gypsy Rose Lee, one of the most famous and highest paid acts in the nation and pretty much tells her mother to take a hike (even trying to buy her off). Mama Rose feels abandoned and unappreciated and this song is her angry catharsis as she confronts her bitterness and her own dreams and her abandonment by her own mother and her own need for attention- the whole works. It’s a very powerful number when you’ve had the full buildup. My favorite version is probably [Patti Lupone’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HLw7m6dCo) though there are a thousand on YouTube (Ethel Merman, Rosalind Russell, Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, and many many others). (Here’s an [alternate recording of Lupone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruzPfJ9Rys)from the night she broke character during Rose’s Turn to yell at an audience member taking flash photos.) While Mama Rose is an over-the-top shocking and sometimes horrible drama queen, by all accounts among those who knew her the fictional character was a suburban country club matron and soccer mom compared to the real one. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159/42 "2010-05-13T06:29:06Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > (Here’s an [alternate recording of Lupone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WruzPfJ9Rys)from the night she broke character during Rose’s Turn to yell at an audience member taking flash photos.) Thanks for that clip! Good for Patti! Sorry for the slight hijack. I was working at a legit theater, and again - the audience was told going in, before the show started and during intermission NOT to take any photos. Of course, one dipshit girl in the front row took a picture. The head usher went down, took the camera (at the time, one with film) and ripped ripped the film out of the camera. The girl cried, “But all my vacation photos are on that roll of film!” The usher said, “Now you just have the good memories…” He too got applause from the audience. ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159/43 "2010-05-13T18:37:15Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > "Chris Colfer is probably the only male alive who can do justice to Rose’s Turn. Um, check this out. Come to the Duplex in manhattan any friday night and see this. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VNPe3dVyaZ0/hqdefault.jpg "Dom Giovanni Sings "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPe3dVyaZ0) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159/44 "2010-05-18T06:05:40Z")
Puck’s almost as dumb as Brittany. There are no star worlds in Super Mario Bros. 3! ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159/45 "2010-05-18T18:02:36Z")
I’m looking forward to tonight’s episode for an unusual reason. My boyfriend and I have been working through the entire _X-Files_ series and are finally on the last season. One of the episodes we watched this weekend was called “Lord of the Flies” and Jane Lynch wound up being this freaky mutant fly woman with scary pincers coming out of her mouth. How bad is it that I need a shot of Sue Sylvester to cleanse my palate? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-5-11-episode-laryngitis-open-spoilers/539159.md?page=2)