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This article is about the stage musical.For the source book, see Gypsy: A Memoir.Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.It is usually referred to as simply Gypsy.Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the famous striptease artist, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous with "the ultimate show business mother."The character of Louise is based on Lee, and the character of June is based on Lee's sister, the actress June Havoc.Rich even goes so far as to call it the American musical theatre's answer to King Lear.Theater critic Clive Barnes wrote that "Gypsy is one of the best of musicals..."The character of Rose was described by Barnes as "one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical...Rose was described by Rich as "a monster".Background
A musical based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee was a project of producer David Merrick and actress Ethel Merman.Merrick had read a chapter of Lee's memoirs in Harper's Magazine and approached Lee to obtain the rights.Merman also wanted Hayward to produce her next show.Merrick and Hayward approached Arthur Laurents to write the book.Composers Irving Berlin and Cole Porter turned the show down.Finally, Robbins asked Stephen Sondheim, who agreed to do it.Sondheim had worked with Robbins and Laurents on the musical West Side Story.However, Merman did not want an unknown composer, and wanted Jule Styne to write the music.While June is an extroverted, talented child star, the older girl, Louise, is shy.Finally, when Rose meets a former agent, Herbie, she persuades him to become their manager using her seductive and feminine wiles ("Small World").Using all girls, instead of boys, Rose and Herbie try valiantly to sell "Madame Rose's Toreadorables" to a fading vaudeville industry.With no vaudeville venues left, Louise and her second rate act wind up at a burlesque house in Wichita, Kansas.During the run, three of the strippers on the bill advise young Louise on what it takes to be a successful stripper, a "gimmick", something that "makes your strip special" ("You Gotta Get a Gimmick").On the last day of the booking, the star stripper in the burlesque show is arrested for solicitation.Disgusted at Rose's blind ambition for her daughter, Herbie walks out on Rose forever.Shy and hesitant, she sings a titillating version of "Let Me Entertain You", the song that their kiddie act had used.She removes only her glove.The audience goes wild, and this becomes Louise's "gimmick".In the months that follow she becomes secure, always following her mother's advice to "Make 'em beg for more, and then don't give it to them!"This is demonstrated in a montage in which the song becomes brasher and brassier, and more and more articles of clothing come off.Mother and daughter tentatively step toward reconciliation in the end.Baby June and Newsboys
Mr.Broadway tryout tour in 1959, several songs were cut, including a song for Herbie called "Nice, She Ain't" (cut because actor Jack Klugman had a terrible singing voice) and a song for Baby June and Baby Louise entitled "Mama's Talkin' Soft".The latter song was cut because the staging required the little girls to stand on a platform elevated above the stage.The young actress playing Baby Louise was terrified and the song was cut.The original production received eight Tony Award nominations, including best musical, best musical actress, best featured actor, best featured actress, best scenic design, best costume design, and best direction of a musical, but failed to win any.After the show closed on Broadway in March 1961, two national touring companies toured the United States.Broadway Revival
Opened on September 23, 1974, at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 120 performances after 4 previews.This was based on a London production, where it opened on May 29, 1973 at the Piccadilly Theatre and played for 300 performances.The director of both productions was Arthur Laurents.It starred Angela Lansbury as Rose, with Zan Charisse, Rex Robbins, and Maureen Moore as Dainty June (later Bernadette Peters' understudy as Rose in the 2003 revival).Broadway Revival
Opened on November 16, 1989, at the St.Tyne Daly played Rose (later replaced by Linda Lavin), with Jonathan Hadary and Crista Moore.Paper Mill Playhouse Production
A 1998 production featuring Betty Buckley and Deborah Gibson at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey was rumored to be Broadway bound, but a production did not materialize.Sam Mendes was the director.City Center (New York) Production
Gypsy was presented by Encores!"Miss Cratchitt", and Marilyn Caskey as "Electra".North American Tour
Gypsy is currently being presented by Phoenix Entertainment with Kathy Halenda starring as Rose and Missy Dowse as Louise.The production was directed by Sam Viverto and assisted by Aja Kane.Principal casting also includes Ruby Lewis as June, Rachel Abrams as Mazeppa, Loriann Freda as Tessie Tura, Nick Hamel as Herbie, and Maria Egler as Electra.That craving, after all, is the motor that keeps showbiz puttering along.Laurents makes sure that we sense that hunger in everyone....Film and TV versions
Rosalind Russell, Karl Malden, and Natalie Wood starred in the 1962 Warner Bros.Gypsy was also adapted as a television movie in 1993 with Bette Midler playing Rose.Cynthia Gibb portrayed Louise and Jennifer Beck portrayed Dainty June.Series or Motion Picture Made for TV; Michael Rafter won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction.New York City Center Encores!The original 1959 and revival 2003 cast albums each won the Grammy Award, Best Original Cast Show Album.Motion pictures recorded in stereo had been steadily made since 1953, and stereo was first used on magnetic tape in 1954, but it was not until 1958, a year before Gypsy opened, that it became possible to use this technology on records.The 1974 Broadway recording was not an actual recording of the Broadway revival, but a remix of the London Cast recording of 1973 with a new recording of "Some People".Note: The 1959 Tony Award for Best Musical was won jointly by Fiorello and The Sound of Music, the latter of which dominated the Awards.Note: Winners indicated by an asterisk (*).Gypsy Bounces Back With Zest and Lilt.Two Musicals We Need Have Checked In New York Times.See Gypsy, Book by Arthur Laurents, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Music by Jule Styne, 1994, p.New York Times, February 3, 2004, p."Let Them Entertain You: Gypsy, with LuPone, Gaines and Benanti, Arrives on Broadway March 3," playbill.External links
Stage and Screen Online Comprehensive interview with Stephen Sondheim from 2006.Gypsy: A Musical Fable at The Internet Broadway Database
Gypsy at sondheim.Internet Movie Database for Gypsy, 1993 TV movie
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Gaines is most known for his three Tony winning performances in The Heidi Chronicles, She Loves Me and Contact.Broadway in The Sound of Music and recently starred as Julia in The Wedding Singer.Also starring:Leigh Ann Larkin, Dainty June
Tony Yazbeck, Tulsa
Marilyn Caskey, Electra
Alison Fraser, Tessie
Lenora Nemetz, Mazeppa
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Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.Plot Synopsis:
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.User Comments:
Interesting, Lively Fictionalized Biography; Fascinating...Louise 'Gypsy Rose Lee' HovickKarl Malden ...Baby' June (as Suzanne Cupito)Ann Jillian ...The highly unsatisfactory results can be heard as an extra feature on the soundtrack CD.Merman, who was infuriated that she'd not been cast in the film, evidently had retained this copy of the Russell vocals as a strange and somewhat vengeful consolation prize.Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!FAQ
What ever happen to June?And June is still married to one the boy in the act?Thank you, your vote will be counted and appear on this page within 24 hours.The
film is filled with famous songs and comedy scenes, alternating with
moving confrontations that for once gain by having been real ones.Kelly, Howard Shoup and others, the cinematography of
Harry Stradling, Sr.Rose's girls are all good,
particularly Ann Jillian as June.But Rosalind Russell is
alternately brassy and wheedling, working everyone for exactly what she
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