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Gypsy


Played at

Sam S Shubert Theater

Awards 

This production of Gypsy was a 2003 Tony® Awards nominee

The 1974 production was a 1975 Tony® Awards winner

The 1989 production was a 1990 Tony® Awards winner

Show Site

was gypsythemusical.com

Broadway Musical Revival

Previews March 31 2003
Opened May 1 2003
Closed May 30 2004

Run 33 previews | 451 performances

Running Time 2 hrs 50 mins | 1 intermission

Tickets $26.25 to $101.25

Prices do not include any taxes, service charges or other charges

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Creative Arthur Laurents book | Jule Styne music | Stephen Sondheim lyrics | Jerry Mitchell original choreography | Jerry Mitchell additional choreography | Sam Mendes director

Cast Bernadette Peters | Tammy Blanchard | John Dossett | Brooks Ashmanskas | Kate Buddeke | David Burtka | MacIntyre Dixon | Heather Lee | Michael McCormick | Maureen Moore | William Parry | Kate Reinders | Heather Tepe | Addison Timlin | plus Coco as "Chowsie"

Opening Night Cast Bernadette Peters | Tammy Blanchard | John Dossett | Brooks Ashmanskas | Kate Buddeke | David Burtka | Julie Halston | Heather Lee | Michael McCormick | Maureen Moore | William Parry | Kate Reinders | Heather Tepe | Addison Timlin | plus Coco as "Chowsie"

Synopsis We really don't care what the show is about as long as Bernadette Peters is on the boards as Mama Rose. Her voice might not be as big as Merman's but she's the only diva who can take on the role. Now, the show: An overbearing vaudeville stage mom lives her life through one talented but rebellious daughter. After the budding young star leaves the act it's up to not as pretty, not as talented sister Louise to pick up the slack in her mom's quest for fame. Long emotionally -- and financially -- supported by agent-cum-candy butcher Herbie Sommers, Mama Rose pushes Louise to 'take it off' but finds herself outcast when her fan-dancing daughter turns away from her and does not allow her mother a share in her success

Notes The original musical production of Gypsy bowed at the Broadway Theater May, 1959, starring Ethel Merman as Rose, Jack Klugman as Herbie and Sandra Church as Louise. The show ran for 702 performances, closing at the Imperial Theater in March, 1961. Gypsy has had two Broadway revivals: 1974 at the Winter Garden Theater with Angela Lansbury, Rex Robbins and Zan Charisse on the boards; and a 1 1/2 year run that started at the St James Theater in 1989 with Tyne Daly, Jonathan Hadary and Crista Moore

The 1962 movie version, starring Roz Russell, Karl Malden and Natalie Wood, includes writing credits for Arthur Laurents and Leonard Spigelgass based on Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography Gypsy, A Memoir, and music credits for Jule Styne and Frank Perkins

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