Italian actress Rosa Lembo sings during a performance of 'Mother Teresa, The Musical' at the Brancaccio Theatre in Rome October 14, 2003. The two-hour musical is a celebration of the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta who died six years ago.
The mic. Just weird.
Remember Andrea Martin's impersonation of Indira Gandhi on the old "SCTV" show?
You know what else is weird - the Rosary-prop she has. "How do we make this costume more Catholic?" asked the stage director to the prop-master. "I know - we'll have her ALWAYS have a Rosary wrapped around her hand!" "That's brilliant!" said the director "Someday you'll do the costume design for "Pope Saint JP II - The Great!"
This Mother Teresa must have been dipped in a vat of winkle remover.
Just requires a bit of suspension of disbelief. Maybe a whole lot. More so on the wrinkles than on the mic. And don't they have wireless lapel mics for that? Boom mics are kind of distracting.
I just had a visual of Mother Theresa performing a liturgical dance ---- must get more sleep.
I thought Mother T actually did have a rosary in her hand all the time.
Well she probably did have a Rosary in her hand. Just seems odd in this photo... contrived... cheap... weird...
am I cranky?
Maybe it is strange that the actress is not holding the Rosary in her fingers, as one who prays it does.
I'd also think it's a little odd and inattentive to let the crucifix dangle, but maybe that's just my preference (to not do so).