Off to Gypsy!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 4:49pm

Seats F101 and 103. I may wet myself. Multiple wettings.

[harris007]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 4:50pm

ahhh bite me


lol we want details when u get back

[TomMonster]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 4:51pm

Great seats...enjoy, enjoy, enjoy! I love house seats!!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:10pm

Is it true that Patti has the flu and Bernadette is filling in today?

[Yero]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:14pm

You're so excited you posted it on the wrong board!
Have fun! =P

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:30pm

Enjoy much

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:37pm

Have fun PJ - don't forget to post a review - on the right board.

[Harper3]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:41pm

Have a wonderful time! I saw the show Tuesday after seeing it twice at Encores! and it was PHENOMENAL.

[blueroses]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 6:18pm

You will love it! I'm going back in June.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 6:56pm

i'm so thrilled for you!

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 7:12pm

I want a review!

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 7:38pm

You could totally reach out and touch Patti, PJ!

...and please DO. Often.

Post all musings... on the OTHER board. Since this is definitely ON topic!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 12:48am

Eh. There are too many Gypsy threads there already--and creeps who post about lobsters. My peeps are here on the OT Board.

Having seen Patti play Rose twice at Ravinia and once at City Center and once tonight from her house seats, I never have to see another Rose again. No one will embody the role as totally, no one will sing it as well, no one will act it with so much nuance, at least no one in my lifetime.

I was too young to see Merman, but seeing Lansbury was a huge thrill, Daly and Lavin and Midler were fun to see, Buckley and Peters were disappointing, and now Patti IS my Rose.

Laura Benanti and Boyd Gaines each had towering moments, Tony Yazbek is the hottest Tulsa ever (and I've slept with two!), and Pearce Wegener is a very cute and funny Yonkers. (Does anyone ever notice Yonkers? I also liked the Yonkers at Ravinia.)

But Patti's growth from Ravinia to Broadway is Art.

I had the same feeling I had seeing Ian McKellen in King Lear earlier last fall: When in the rest of my all-too-short theatergoing lifetime will I again see a perfect pairing of a classic part and a world-class actor, at the peak of his or her gifts?

I saw Lansbury in Gypsy. I saw Maggie Smith in Private Lives. I saw Irene Worth in The Cherry Orchard. I saw Lily Tomlin in Intelligent Life. I John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson on Broadway, but not in classic parts--in Home. I saw Channing in Hello Dolly but only when she was old and freakish.

Every other great performer I have seen, I have seen in a minor work or a work that was larger than the performers. And every other major or classic play or musical has been with ensemble casts or lesser actors.

How many times in your lifetime do you get to see a great play with a great role for a great star? A handful, if you're lucky.

I was lucky tonight. I'm still glowing. I never need to see a Gypsy again.

Unless, of course, someone uses a real lamb again. Jeezis, Arthur! Promise you won't use puppets in West Side Story. Please?

Updated On: 5/25/08 at 12:48 AM

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 12:53am

Wonderful review, so glad for you

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 12:55am

Saw it a week ago PJ. The lamb puppet annoyed me, too!

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:04am

Glad you had a great time...Did you get a chance to talk with Patti?

[harris007]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:07am

coool pj glad u loved it


and ugh whats the deal with everyone hating the faux animals?


the dog is on for maybe what 2 mins, the same with the lamb? they wanted to make it easy and not have to worry about live animals dropping a duece on stage

[tazber]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:14am

Thanks for the thoguhts PJ. Glad you enjoyed.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:24am

We had a few minutes in her dressing room, Kristie.

She was adorable, in a robe with her hair all tousled, and she was very gracious. I thanked her for the seats and she gave me a message for the colleague who arranged them, and I babbled incoherently about the growth from Ravinia to City Center to Broadway, which set her off to remark to her other guests about what a long journey it had been. They were all going off somewhere, so we hugged her goodbye and walked through the crowd at the stage door, hoping to have some BroadwayWorlder spot me.

On the way home, my bf said that in the dressing room, she looked like she could be playing Piaf, and I had thought the same thing.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:30am

you...you touched the Goddess?

OMG. I would have plotzed!!

[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:35am

So Cool...After Sweeney Todd we waited for her to came out the stage door...She was very kind...I told her she was fabulous as Lady Bird Johnson...She looked at me weird and smiled...

[tazber]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:38am

lol

[mauriposa]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 2:15am

Thanks for the review PJ. Now, I absolutely have to see this if it's still there in September.

[shh282]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 2:32am

thanks for the review PJ-

I remember being helplessly lost in the west village after Gypsy, but it didn't matter because I was still so amazed by it, when I got back at 1 30 in the morning, my roommate asked me how it was and I said it was the best thing I've seen on Broadway so far - she called me a liar but I just couldn't stop smiling.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 11:37am

Sounds amazing, PJ!