A Gypsy Intermission Exchange

[CapnHook]

A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#1

Posted: 3/4/08 at 2:18pm

I forgot to mention what happened to me at intermission last night...

This guy sees me in my Lupone Gypsy City Center shirt, and stops me with his wife and asks "I see by your shirt that you must be a musical guru, right?"

"One might say that," I replied.

"Me and my wife have a question. Wasn't there a musical on Broadway just a few years ago about this same story? It was about Gypsy Rose Lee and the strippers and Bernadettte Peters was in it..."

"Well, in 2003 this same show was on Broadway and Bernadette Peters played the part Patti LuPone has..."

The wife tells her husband, "Oh, that must have been it! That's what we saw."

The husband replies, "No, it's not familar though. Is there any other musical about Gypsy and her sister or the strippers?"

I reply, "If there is, it was not on Broadway in the past two decades and Bernadette Peters certainly wasn't in it."

The wife says "This has gotta be it then. It's the same show, huh?"

"Yes," I say, "it's with a different cast and creative team, but it's the same exact show with the same exact songs."

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[frogs_fan85]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#2

Posted: 3/4/08 at 2:22pm

And people said it was too soon for a Gypsy revival.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#2

Posted: 3/4/08 at 2:24pm

Seriously???? That's just fabulous.
To be fair there was a musical called AIN'T BROADWAY GRAND in 1993 that featured Debbie Gravitte as Gypsy Rose Lee, it ran for 25 performances...something tell me this couple wasn't referring to that though.
Gotta love people.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[tazber]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#3

Posted: 3/4/08 at 2:29pm

Maybe they were referring to the Tyne Daly version. Or the Angela Lansbury version. Or the Bette Midler version that was on TV.
Or the unavoidable future Idina version.

....but the world goes 'round

[TheActr97J]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#4

Posted: 3/4/08 at 3:43pm

... or the future Audra version...

"I seem to have wandered into the BRAIN load-out thread... "
-best12bars

"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
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[broadwayfan7]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#5

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:48pm

What a funny conversation.

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[BwayFan4]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#6

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:59pm

They also may have been confused because the strippers and Gypsy Rose Lee part is what they seemed to remember most and at intermission time neither have appeared. obviously the first act of bernadette's gypsy wasn't as impactful to them.

[haddaddy3]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#7

Posted: 3/5/08 at 1:02pm

Wow...just wow

You look absolutely terrific, honestly.

[alterego]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#8

Posted: 3/5/08 at 11:31pm

BwayFan4, you beat me to it, I was just about to comment that obviously the Peters revival hadn't made much of an memorable impact on these people.

[Here I Am]

re: A Gypsy Intermission Exchange#9

Posted: 3/6/08 at 6:26am

That's hysterical! How could they ever forget Bernadette Peters' "Gypsy"... one of the most amazing theatrical experiences of my life!


Don't jump down my throat anyone... I saw Patti at City Center. Loved her too. LOVED Benanti! Can't wait to see it on Broadway.