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Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and "Gypsy" rehearsal footage

Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and "Gypsy" rehearsal footage

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#1Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and "Gypsy" rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:19am

From the "Gypsy Rose Lee show", Gypsy Rose Lee not letting Ethel Merman (either wearing a fur hat or with the world's worst hairdo) get a word in edgewise. But she does talk about Mama Rose and show some rehearsal footage from "Gypsy"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvqRInV5dnM&feature=user

realy cool


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#2re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:39am

I KNOW!!!!

It's so cool that you hardly notice that the film clip skips back and repeats.

It's just so cool!


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#3re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:47am

Oh my God!
I noticed that about the film, but wow, it's so fascinating. Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this... I'm sort of speechless.


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#4re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:47am

It sure is a wow. Thanks so much for finding this. I used to watch Gypsy Rose Lee's talk show and enjoyed it very much. I wish they would re-run it.


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#5re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:49am

A buddy of mine just sent me the whole rehearsal footage footage. It is pretty random without much more "wow" moments than what is seen on that clip.

Still Sondheim looks like he is 11 years old and there is opening night party stuff.

pretty nifty.


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#6re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 7:46am

how marvelous!
what a treat!

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#7re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 8:34am

My favorite thing she says while the footage is playing:

"The little girl who plays my sister had to have her hair bleached blonde for the role... So did my sister."


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#8re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 8:49am

Thank you!
Imagine a box set of the Gypsy Rose Lee show?


" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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#9re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:52am

Ethel and Mary Martin talk a little, then sing "Anything You Can Do"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUcvKNO9vs


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#10re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 10:05am

Love it!
As Jesse in Andy Worhol's HEAT says: "Nothing like the old actresses."


" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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#11re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 10:45am

That rehearsal space up in the back of the New Amsterdam must have been THE place to rehearse shows! Julie Andrews said she rehearsed My Fair Lady up there as well.

Does anybody know if that space still exists, or did it go away during the Disney remodel/renovation?


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#12re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:03am

Back in the 80s, when the New Amsterdam was still a mess, Tommy Tune used the rooftop for the workshop of Nine.

I hadn't heard much about Nine when I was brought there--I was mostly excited about seeing the home of Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics, but you was Nine a surprise!


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#13re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:35am

From my understanding, the space is still there but it bare and unkept. I really wish Disney would continue the upkeeping and do some sort of tour of the entire theater. It is a theater historic landmark imo.


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Jon
#14re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 1:36pm

It would be virtually impossible to renovate the New Amsterdam rooftop space to bring it up to fire safety codes.

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#15re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 2:41pm

Pish-tosh!

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#16re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 6:23pm

Bah, it appears that the video was taken down... before I could watch re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage


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#17re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 6:37pm

I saved it to my hard drive!


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#18re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 7:54pm

Damn! I didn't get a chance to see it!


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#19re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:43pm

I would love that.


If I heard the bells and the banjos ring

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#20re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:45pm

That's true. Nothing like our great actresses of the past.


If I heard the bells and the banjos ring

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#21re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:00am

It's been deleted. re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage I want to see.


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#22re: Gypsy Rose Lee and Ethel Merman and 'Gypsy' rehearsal footage
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:38am

Its back up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9l4dBAwh8c


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