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Rosie as Cratchitt AND Mazeppa! That would rock!

I don't think there's any cause for people to be "frigtened" by the support for Obama. The support is cheerfully over the top, certainly, but a large portion of it is no doubt just coming from relief that after eight years of Bush we've finally got a decent man as President again. Obama has a brain and isn't afraid to use it. I don't know what Bush had between his ears, except perhaps a void, and sayonara to it!

Queen Latifah gets my vote as Rose! That would be awesome.

So glad to hear I'm not the only one who misses GYPSY! I also keep playing the score all week. And I wish La Grande Patti would at least write a Ramblings from the Road on her blog again too. I need some kind of a Patti fix.

Jerry Herman, please take note: in my humble opinion, Patti would make a great Dolly, or a great Mame, or a great Countess Aurelia, OR a great Jacqueline in "La Cage" - any one of them! I, too, would come to see her in anything, after seeing what she did with "Gypsy." You RULE, Patti!

Ah, surely SOMEBODY must have some of those Angus McEndoe's party pics, whether that was the official party or not. It would be fun to see them. I'd love to see more stage door pictures from the last performance, too, as one of you also said.

I'm so thrilled to hear there's going to be a revival of this show! It's one of my favorites.

I saw the Mendes production - once. I'm a fan of the show "Gypsy" itself, saw it with Angela Lansbury as a child, and went to innumerable performances of the Tyne Daly and Patti LuPone productions, but I could only sit through the Mendes thing once. To me, it was only interesting on a historical level because they tried to recreate some of the actual costumes from Dainty June's vaudeville act.

Thanks so much to all those of you who posted pictures on here from the final performance...particularly the ones from the curtain call (I had such tall people in front of me that I couldn't see most of the curtain call during the standing ovation)! Does anyone have any pictures of the party the cast had after the show at Angus McEndoe's? I was hoping Broadwayworld would cover it but the pics have yet to appear.

I'm excited to see Rupert Everett and everybody who is in the cast of Blithe Spirit! I'll be at the first preview.

One of my favorite bits in yesterday's performance was when, during "You'll Never Get Away from Me," when Boyd said the line, "Rose, I love you..." his voice broke. It was so clear all through the run, all the way back to City Center, how much love all of those cast members have for each other. Maybe that's what made this production so beautifully different.

Did anybody happen to dive in any dumpsters over by Gypsy today?

Did anybody happen to dive in any dumpsters over by Gypsy today?

This was the best theater performance I have ever seen, anyplace, anywhere, any time, any how, any way. The audience was filled with fans of the show and so it was like being at an event that was part theatrical performance, part pep rally and part love fest. I got to speak to just about everybody in the cast (except Body) at the stage door afterwards, including Patti LuPone, who is an absolute darling. I hope all of you who were in or involved with this magnificent production of "Gypsy" real...

I was so lucky to see Harvey Fierstein in HAIRSPRAY again a week ago. Harvey, if you're out there and come across this, I just want you to know that this world is a lot more fabulous because you're in it! I can't wait to see what you do next. All the best to you!

I'm five feet tall. My worst Broadway usher experience happened at the revival of "Annie" in the 1990's. The theater is now called the Hirschfeld. Maybe it's been renovated since then, but at the time the rows of seats in the orchestra weren't on an steep enough angle and people's heads were in each other's way. They had all these "booster pillows" available, so I took one. They did NOT, repeat, not, one mo' time, that word was NOT, have a sign visible saying that the booster pillows were for...

Lansbury Preston (after Robert Preston) And last but most fabulously: Fierstein! That would make such a terrific first name.

Ah, now this is the best news of the week! Perhaps of the decade.

I've bought seats up there. Those seats are fine. Usually the balcony's half empty and the people in the last two rows can move down. The first row of that balcony isn't great, though, because there's a guardrail that it's hard to see over.

This thread is fascinating. I heard that the New Victory Theater used to be Minsky's.