AUDRA GYPSY Reviews

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/17/24 at 11:41pm

Updated On: 12/19/24 at 11:41 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 10:37am

chrishuyen reported in the previews thread that the embargo isn't lifting until midnight (which seems odd...) so we may be in for a wait.

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 2:38pm

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 2:59pm

Thrilling new trailer for those interested. Gorgeous. 

[Penna2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 3:24pm

MemorableUserName said: "chrishuyen reported in the previews thread that the embargo isn't lifting until midnight (which seems odd...) so we may be in for a wait."

embargo (noun) · embargoes (plural noun)

1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country:

What does an embargo have to do with reviews? 

[OharaFosseWolfe888]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 3:28pm

Penna2 said: "MemorableUserName said: "chrishuyen reported in the previews thread that the embargo isn't lifting until midnight (which seems odd...) so we may be in for a wait."

embargo(noun) ·embargoes(plural noun)

1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country:

What does an embargo have to do with reviews?"

A press embargo is a request or requirement that information or news not be published until a certain date or conditions are met. It is often used in journalism and public relations for press releases, which are official statements or announcements that aim to generate media coverage.

[binau]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 3:41pm

That trailer was amazing I wish I felt like that seeing the actual show though :’(. 

Updated On: 12/19/24 at 03:41 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 3:48pm

I apologize for any confusion, or if there is a more accepted term when it comes to Broadway. I do tend of think of it more when it comes to movie reviews, where a review embargo tends to be a widely known concept. The fact that theater reviewers don't drop their reviews whenever they want before opening, but at a time on opening night dictated by the production, would seem to indicate the same concept is at work, so it's the term that came to mind.

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 4:02pm

Sutton Ross said: "

Thrilling newtrailerfor those interested. Gorgeous."

This is the production this board has been calling hideous?? This looks magical and classic and naturalistic.

 

[TheSassySam]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 4:13pm

MemorableUserName said: "I apologize for any confusion, or if there is a more accepted term when it comes to Broadway. I do tend of think of it more when it comes to movie reviews, where a review embargo tends to be a widely known concept. The fact that theater reviewers don't drop their reviews whenever they want before opening, but at a time on opening night dictated by the production, would seem to indicate the same concept is at work,so it's the term that came to mind."

It's the proper term. Press embargos are used for a variety of stories and press releases. 

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 5:10pm

Georgeanddot2 said: This is the production this board has been calling hideous?? This looks magical and classic and naturalistic.

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I know, I don't know what people want. It's Gypsy, not La Cage aux Folles. It shouldn't be super glitzy, and it looks like Gypsy should -  tawdry and run-down but in a deliberate way. I think expectations for this one were so sky-high that people have let anything they don't like run away with their expectations

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 5:29pm

I think most of the costumes look ugly or at best not-period, the worst offender being these bodysuits. This looks like rejected costumes from Death Becomes Her. And don't get me started on the wigs/hair.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 5:52pm

Not a review, but an article.

How Gypsy Director George C. Wolfe Reimagined Theater’s Legendary Stage Mother

With Audra McDonald, he found a more wounded, more modern Rose.

https://www.vulture.com/article/how-george-c-wolfe-gypsy-broadway-interview.html

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 5:59pm

I don't know, she sounded pretty belty to me in that trailer.  Still hoping this is more of a homerun than people on this board seem to think.  

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 6:10pm

I thought she sounded spectacular.  I thought I might be Gypsy’ed out for awhile, but this makes me definitely want to see it.  

[Penna2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 6:35pm

OharaFosseWolfe888 said: "Penna2 said: "MemorableUserName said: "chrishuyen reported in the previews thread that the embargo isn't lifting until midnight (which seems odd...) so we may be in for a wait."

embargo(noun) ·embargoes(plural noun)

1. an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country:

What does an embargo have to do with reviews?"

A press embargo isa request or requirement that information or news not be published until a certain date or conditions are met.It is often used in journalism and public relations for press releases, which are official statements or announcements that aim to generate media coverage."

Thanks. Just seems to be a strange word for them to choose. 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 6:52pm

I loved this production. I thought Audra was a phenomenal Rose. I also quite liked the set design - it didn't look cheap to me at all. Maybe it helps that I have never seen Gypsy done professionally before, so I had nothing to really compare it to besides a local dinner theatre production I saw as a kid...

[ddenoff2]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 7:19pm

USA Today is a rave

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/12/19/gypsy-review-audra-mcdonald/77016921007/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGypsy%2C%E2%80%9D%20which%20opened%20Dec,makes%20it%20so%20fundamentally%20great.

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 7:36pm

ddenoff2 said: "USA Today is a rave

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/12/19/gypsy-review-audra-mcdonald/77016921007/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGypsy%2C%E2%80%9D%20which%20opened%20Dec,makes%20it%20so%20fundamentally%20great."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/12/19/gypsy-review-audra-mcdonald/77016921007/

"Unfortunately, the production makes a rare misstep in its final 15 minutes, rushing through Louise’s transformation from awkward wallflower to confident, celebrity burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee. Woods at times seems adrift in Brown’s overly busy choreography, and she struggles to match McDonald’s intensity in Louise’s penultimate confrontation with her mother. It’s a scene that should puncture, but barely leaves a bruise.

But it's a small stumble in an otherwise top-to-bottom perfect production, which reminds us that there is truly nothing that McDonald can't do."

Yep.

[OharaFosseWolfe888]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 7:36pm

dp

Updated On: 12/19/24 at 07:36 PM

[Dolly80]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 8:02pm

I really hope some reviewers speak the truth about what a badly designed, lazy and uninspired production this is. And with a leading lady who can’t sing the score.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 8:04pm

As for the 11 o’clock number you’ve all been waiting for: McDonald’s “Rose’s Turn” feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event; the sort of unequivocal theater magic that you one day tell your grandkids about. 

😂😂😂😂😂

Even the most fervent scream queens on this board weren’t as fervent as this. Honey needs to dial it back a bit. 

[kdogg36]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 8:04pm

Penna2 said: "Thanks. Just seems to be a strange word for them to choose."

For what it's worth, Wiktionary lists the relevant definition as sense number 3.

Updated On: 12/19/24 at 08:04 PM

[Marlothom]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 8:06pm

Is that Tulsa in the back? Looks like Louise finally gets the guy at the end.  :) 

[OharaFosseWolfe888]

Posted: 12/19/24 at 8:23pm

Play Esq. said: "As for the 11 o’clock number you’ve all been waiting for: McDonald’s “Rose’s Turn” feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event; the sort of unequivocal theater magic that you one day tell your grandkids about.

😂😂😂😂😂

Even the most fervent scream queens on this board weren’t as fervent as this. Honey needs to dial it back a bit."

Having seen it twice, this is exactly how I feel actually...

Updated On: 12/19/24 at 08:23 PM