Gypsy of the Year
A Special Broadway Event
Monday December 7 2009 4:30P
Tuesday December 8 2009 2:00P
Palace
Theater | Broadway between
46th & 47th Streets
Information & Tickets
Gypsy of the Year | 212-840-0770
What do you do when you happen to have an available theater and want
to raise a few bucks? Well, you do what Andy Hardy and his friends
did and say, "Hey! Let's put on a show." That's what Tyne Daly and
the rest of the folks in the cast of the 1989 revival of Gypsy
did that November, they put on a show that was to become the annual
"topper offer" of the Fall BC/EFA fund-raising season
"Gypsies" are those sometimes nameless folks in the chorus of a
musical, you know, the ones doing all of the real work, as
celebrated in Chita Rivera's
A Dancer's Life.
Some gypsies get to go on to stardom and fame, such as Ms Rivera,
Shirley McLane and Gwen Verdon. For the most part, unless one
happens to get a piece of business to work in a show, they are
unheralded, credited simply as "chorus" or "ensemble"
The gypsies also do much of the work in BC/EFA's fund-raising
efforts on Broadway and touring shows throughout the country. The
Gypsy of the Year competition is the highlight of the Fall season
and each edition is expected to be a gypsy- and star-studded
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