April 20, 2008
I'm watching Saturday Night Live on an old black and white television. Bernadette Peters is performing "Rose's Turn," the climactic number from the musical Gypsy. She is accompanied by two back up singers, which is unusual for this big solo number.
The backup singers are meant to represent Rose's two daughters from the play, Louise and June, but rather than truly contributing background vocals, they each sing lines from the song that refer to their own characters. June, for instances, sings the line, "I did it for you, June."
While this strikes me as a strange interpretation of the song, the oddest thing about it is that the backup singers are not actually girls but instead two pasty-faced, pudgy, prepubescent boys with bowl like hair cuts.
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