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EVERY week a letter will be published and tickets to the musical amongst other prizes will be given out. Write to us your opinion on ROSE CHAN as a showgirl or just about her life. And each week till showdate if your letter is published on the blog, you'll receive interesting prizes which includes tickets to ROSE ROSE I LOVE YOU...

Send your letters to pennlow@yahoo.com complete with your full name, i.c. number, email address, phone number and house address.

This week we feature APHRODITE who wishes to remain anonymous. Aphrodite, congratulations you are on your way to a free stay in Genting with tickets to watch ROSE ROSE I LOVE YOU. We will be in contact with you.

WEEK ONE FEATURE

“The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.” -Brooke Shields

After absorbing tons and tons of information about Rose Chan and her showgirl life I realized that being a showgirl takes the similar amount of hard work as any other job. There are risks, losses, gains, conflict and pain. So many challenges that you had to decide if you were going to take it or not.

Rose Chan enjoyed what she did and she deserves her fame and glory. I honestly believe that if she had a second chance to do it again she would go for it in a heartbeat. I don’t really blame her—like they say, don’t knock it ‘til you’ve tried it and after never ending research about Rose Chan as a showgirl, it made me wonder…could I knack it if I were given the chance to live a month's life as a showgirl? Hey, maybe this would be an interesting experiment and an in depth thing I’d have to do one day to comprehend that cabaret girls aren’t just sleazy, cheap and downgrading. It is simply another career selection.

-Aphrodite

The Greatest Show of the Year!

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All too many people turned out for the audition. Experienced actors, first timers...or those who just wanted to meet the director. They were inspired and gung-ho, dynamic individuals who wanted the chance to let the world hear them.

I think during ROSE's time, their audition could have been very much like that too...the energy, the enthusiasm or just the human need, to be off the streets would have been the very passion that drove them to want to outdo each other.

What fuels their passion each night, every night as they perform the same routine? How do they cope with living under the same roof alongside other performers who are bitchy and catty, ready to step on you to get to the top?

What kind of lives do they live? Come and find out!

BODY BEAUTIFUL

BEAUTY IS SKIN DEEP

A 45-year old woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.
While on the operating table, she had a near death experience.
Seeing God, she asked, "Is my time up?"
God said: "No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."

Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck. She even had someone come in and change her hair color and brighten her teeth! Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.

After her last operation, she was released from thehospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.

Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 43 years? Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?"

God replied: "I didn't recognize you."

How do you do it

stripping is easy
when it is done just a few minutes before shower
when the day gets just too hot and there is no one around
when you're all alone, in your own room...

but is stripping easy
when you are surrounded by eyes wanting to see more
when you know you should have just skipped the dance routine and proceed to skin
when you know that there is nothing left between your soul and your spectator

SHOWGIRLS, SHOW ME ALL YOU'VE GOT!

HERE’S WHAT SOME PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY…

Wow! It must be great being a showgirl…

The Glitz and the Glamour – that's what it is all about. Varieties of dazzling and sparkling skimpy clad outfits, the ‘all-eyes-on-you’ attention; thunderous applauds, never ending admiration. It is what every girl would want. To mesmerize those who look at you, make heads turn when you walk by them, to have people stealing glances at you and to have undivided attention of everyone in the room.

Oh yes – and having make-up artist work their magic on you and the never ending selection of shoes to go with the outfits that will never make it into your otherwise mundane closet space... to get paid to look pretty. Sounds like a slice of heaven if you ask me. Sounds like something I’d totally be interested in.

-Barbie [showgirl-wannabe]-




Have you no soul? You, the stage temptress, misleading men with your wicked ways? You are degrading women all around the world, making men believe that women only use their beauty for all the wrong reasons.

Have you no pride? Women should flaunt their intelligence, not use their sex appeal. How can you say that being a showgirl is a real job? Have you thought about venturing into a proper career? I’m sure given your stage confidence you will have so much more to offer. Definitely a lot more compared to just parading around scantily clad in front of randy men, day in day out.

Have you even thought of raising a family someday perhaps? With the work that you do, what kind of mother or wife would you be? Would you be your children's pride and joy? Get off your pedestal. Go home.

-Theresa [mother of 3]-

I was a showgirl. Like many of you, I had a service to sell. And I had regulars customers. Perhaps unlike your trade, mine put me at the centre of attraction.

People knew my name.

People travelled from afar to get a taste of my product.

Did your trade have that pull?

- She [who was a showgirl]-

What are you?

who is this woman
who came way before me
whose name is remembered
whose deeds are forgotten

who is this woman
who ruled the nights
whose works my mom considers art
whose life my dad considers trash

who is this woman
who is scandalous
whose grip on men is tight
whose view on life is loose

who is this woman
who has all these women
whose works go beyond the stage
whose life goes beyond the grave

Thoughts on Rose

rose...

strip

get on your knees...

be my lifesize barbie

dance
get on the floor...
let me look you all over

gyrate
sit on me...
make me your king

the night is yours to rule
and the day is mine to forget

Who is Rose?

little boys sneaked in to watch her
grown men fought to have a feel of her
today old men reminisce at the mere mention of her name
and young men wonder about her claim to fame

women young and old are still amazed
gawking at her beauty, appeal and grace
wishing ever so secretly for her style and sensuousness
a charm so irresistable, a love so venomous

she is the flower of malaya
she is the rose that grows and lingers
in the minds of those who remember
the forbidden dance perfected by her

A Rose by Any Other Name

What's with the name of Rose
A showgirl who is known beyond her pose
Whose shot to fame
Puts every man to shame.