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CONFIRMED: Audra McDonald-led GYPSY to begin previews Nov 2024
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#325
Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:32pm
I first saw Gypsy with Tyne Daly and later in the run with Linda Lavin. As much as I enjoyed the production and Tyne's performance I have never wanted to see Gypsy again. The subsequent cast recordings had their merits and satisfied what interest I had in the vocals and orchestrations.
Audra doesn't interest me in this role (nor did Bernadette) but George C. Wolfe is the creative that I'm genuinely excited about. Depending on his interpretation I may finally be ready to see Gypsy again.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#326
Posted: 5/30/24 at 12:01am
Me: This starts previews...4 days...after...I leave New York
My wallet:
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#327
Posted: 5/30/24 at 12:18am
Kad said: "I think Wolfe is one of the great theater artists of the last 50 years and has had remarkable thematic cohesion throughout his entire body of work. He's also not the type to colorblind cast- if he's directing a black Mama Rose, he is going to really interrogate what it means to be a black woman living that life in that era. He's not afraid to challenge an audience and I am really, really excited to see what that means for his take on Gypsy."
Yes, I'm even more excited for him than for Audra.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#328
Posted: 5/30/24 at 3:00am
I cannot wait to see this- but I agree that she certainly isn’t a lock for the Tony. I’m sure she’ll be great, but vocally this role isn’t a natural fit for her.
Nicole S will really be the big story on Broadway ant the end of the year, and I predict she will walk away with that award quite comfortably.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#329
Posted: 5/30/24 at 4:09am
TBFL said: "It's funny how all those people who said that the rumours of Audra in Gypsy was complete nonsense, a fantasy, totally made up, no truth to it whatsoever...... are strangley quiet today. Heaven forbid some of them might actually admit they were wrong....
Personally, this doesn't appeal.. Yes she's hugely talented, but the idea of a soprano Mamma Rose does nothing for me. And i'm all Gypsy'd out for a good few years.
Despite her falling in the odds, i'm still backing Katie Brayben for the Tony,"
I'm one of those people. What do you want us to say? She said it wasn't happening. She sounded earnest. We believed her. *shrug*
Stand-by Joined: 6/19/16
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#330
Posted: 5/30/24 at 4:36am
I think Audra will be swell…she’ll be great. She’ll have the whole world on her plate…well at least her Broadway plate for a bit…
I hear comments about Mama Rose being a Soprano and all will not work with the score and blah blah blah…
Well she did Lady Day without singing Soprano if I remember correctly.
Let’s face it…Gypsy was NEVER a GREAT show and the only actress who sung the hell out of the score in my opinion was Ethel Merman and that’s because the show was conceived with her in mind at the time.
i saw Lansbury…Daly…Lavin …Peters… Lupone versions and they were all okay in their own way I guess some would say.
Lupone screamed her way through the show and Peters voice was dull and raspy plus she was out a lot during her run because of illness?….Tyne Daly was just loud for no reason and she talked/sung the lyrics throughout the show… Lavin voice was a bit better when she replaced Daly but she still wasn’t all that good in my opinion.
Lansbury was a decent Mama Rose and although her voice wasn’t big like Merman’s she did the role justice back in 74…These actresses good or bad brought something different to the role but let’s face it the show itself is not a very good show in the first place.
Rosalind Russell in the film version anyone…?
She Sucked!!!
Bette Midler was good and funny but that’s on film and Midler voice isn’t big and brassy either … she did her best with the score but she was playing Bette Midler and not Mama Rose in my opinion of course
Let’s give Audra her chance to show us her interpretation of this iconic character… who knows maybe it’ll work maybe it won’t…but we’ll see.
Plus with Wolfe at the helm I’ll be there with bells on.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#331
Posted: 5/30/24 at 5:07am
I don’t know if it’s true that Bernadette was out a lot of Gypsy besides the previews where she was indeed sick.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#332
Posted: 5/30/24 at 6:48am
MemorableUserName said: "Audra says no.
Audra McDonald Shuts Down 'Gypsy' Broadway Revival Rumor and Teases 'The Gilded Age' Season 3 (Exclusive)
https://www.etonline.com/audra-mcdonald-shuts-down-gypsy-broadway-revival-rumor-and-teases-the-gilded-age-season-3-exclusive
"Despiterumors to the contrary, McDonald tells ET's Nischelle Turner that she willnotbe returning to Broadway to take on theiconic role of Mama Rose in a revival ofGypsypremiering during the 2024-2025 season.
"Oh no, that was a rumor.I read about that many in theNew York Posttoo," McDonald reveals to ET on the2024 Screen Actors Guild Awardsred carpet Saturday night. "You know, people talk, people talk."""
https://x.com/gypsybway/status/1795901962681987353?s=01
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#333
Posted: 5/30/24 at 7:38am
Do we know what website tickets will go on sale on?
Broadway Star Joined: 4/22/07
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#334
Posted: 5/30/24 at 7:38am
Patti, Bernadette, and Bette, as Mazeppa, Electra, and Tessie Tura. Make it happen.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#335
Posted: 5/30/24 at 7:42am
TBFL said: "Personally, this doesn't appeal.. Yes she's hugely talented, but the idea of a soprano Mamma Rose does nothing for me. And i'm all Gypsy'd out for a good few years.
Despite her falling in the odds, i'm still backing Katie Brayben for the Tony,"
she belts songs in her concerts and (no surprise) she does it brilliantly.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#336
Posted: 5/30/24 at 7:45am
So we are getting an Audra McDonald GYPSY and the WICKED movie within less than a week of each other? That's pretty damn exciting!
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#337
Posted: 5/30/24 at 7:51am
I'd love to see Ekele Ukegbu debut in this. She was sensational at the Jimmys a few years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWeET7xSUQ
Leading Actor Joined: 4/1/20
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#338
Posted: 5/30/24 at 8:22am
corthomas said: "Do we know what website tickets will go on sale on?"
Telecharge.com. And they are using a queue prior to 10am.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#339
Posted: 5/30/24 at 8:29am
The waiting room is open.
Understudy Joined: 12/1/21
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#340
Posted: 5/30/24 at 8:47am
Am I crazy for being interested in seeing Darius Rucker stunt cast as Herbie?
Jamie Foxx could intrigue.
Casting the rest of this show is going to be blast.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#341
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:02am
Tickets sell through June 29th 2025
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#342
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:02am
And we're off. Good luck to everyone trying for tickets!
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#343
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:02am
Well, this is fun. 
Please don't buy all the tickets, those who get in faster!
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#344
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:03am
On a computer I logged on at 9:00am, I now have a wait of 35 minutes in the waiting room. On a second one I just logged on and entered the waiting room and I'll be served in 23 minutes.
Understudy Joined: 5/28/22
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#345
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:04am
22 minutes is not bad! my phone is at 50+ (luckily my laptop is less)
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#346
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:04am
These virtual queues make me so anxious. Anyone through? If so, what’s the price range?
Understudy Joined: 5/28/22
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#347
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:05am
MezzA101 said: "On a computer I logged on at 9:00am, I now have a wait of 35 minutes in the waiting room. On a second one I just logged on and entered the waiting room and I'll be served in 23 minutes."
Telecharge explained that everyone is given a random place in "line" when it opens at 10am. It doesn't account for how long you were in the waiting room.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#348
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:05am
Anyone who gets out of the waiting room please report on ticket prices - want to know just how bad this is going to hit the wallet lol.
Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season!#349
Posted: 5/30/24 at 10:09am
In and out in 5 minutes, tickets to first preview acquired!
Cheapest is $79 up to $368 for premium.
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