Gypsy of the Year
A Special Broadway Event
Monday December 5 2005 4:30P
Tuesday December 6 2005 2:00P
Neil Simon Theater | 250 W 52nd
Street
Information & Tickets
Gypsy of the Year | 212-840-0770
Ticket Prices to come
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 the 2005 edition is expected to be a gypsy- and star-studded
event
Scheduled to be on hand are Brad Garrett (The
Odd Couple), Rosie O’Donnell and Harvey Fierstein (Fiddler
on the Roof), Patti LuPone (Sweeney
Todd), Tim Curry (Spamalot),
and Huey Lewis (Chicago).
Performers will also be on hand from the cast of
The Lion King,
Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang, In My Life,
The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee among quite a few others |
