Purchased tickets for mid-December! I have always adored McDonald, but what sold me on this production is Wolfe's direction, and the fact that Arthur Laurents won't be there to give George the same "help" that Sam Mendes got in 2003.
good time to say I have a $79 first preview ticket up for grabs. Reason being that a better seat for the same price opened up right after I hit purchase 😩 and I couldn't resist moving up a row based on people's comments about the rear mezz here.
So not sure how to get rid of it now... but I do know there's people out there who would want it (don't flame me if you see it on theatr lol)
incomesabby said: "good time to say I have a $79 first preview ticketup for grabs.Reason being that abetter seat for the same price opened up right after I hit purchase 😩and I couldn't resist moving up a row based on people's comments about the rear mezz here.
So not sure how to get rid of it now... but I do know there's people out there who would want it(don't flame me if you see it on theatr lol)"
Call Telecharge customer service, and they'll probably refund the first one if you explain what happened.
I wonder if Anika Noni Rose would consider doing it. If they want to allow the standby to take a different route vocally, Jeanette Bayardelle would be incredible.
It is crazy to think it’s the first time in 65 years that there will be a production of Gypsy on Broadway that could genuinely be free from the directorial shackles of Arthur Laurents. I’m so curious what we are about to see.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
singer234 said: "I wonder if Anika Noni Rose would consider doing it. If they want to allow the standby to take a different route vocally, Jeanette Bayardellewould be incredible."
Anika as the STANDBY?! Surely not - Anika arguably means more to the general public than Audra does!
I was thinking more a Donna Murphy situation. She probably wouldn't, true, but I'd love to see her for a replacement stint if it ever gets there, a la Sweeney.
incomesabby said: "good time to say I have a $79 first preview ticketup for grabs.Reason being that abetter seat for the same price opened up right after I hit purchase 😩and I couldn't resist moving up a row based on people's comments about the rear mezz here.
So not sure how to get rid of it now... but I do know there's people out there who would want it(don't flame me if you see it on theatr lol)"
Telecharge will definitely allow you to exchange, I've done it multiple times.
ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "singer234 said: "I wonder if Anika Noni Rose would consider doing it. If they want to allow the standby to take a different route vocally, Jeanette Bayardellewould be incredible."
Anika as the STANDBY?! Surely not - Anika arguably means more to the general public than Audra does!"
To the theater public???ummm...maybe???...to the general public??? Hard no.
singer234 said: "I was thinking more a Donna Murphy situation. She probably wouldn't, true, but I'd love to see her for a replacement stint if it ever gets there, a la Sweeney."
The Donna Murphy/DOLLY situation was a complete anomaly, the only such moment in modern history that someone of that stature did one performance a week (+ vacations), and it happened under much different circumstances:
Bette is a much much much much bigger star than Audra
Donna was the rare alternate who did not stand by
Donna did not begin until after the Tony Awards so there would be no issue of comparison for the voters. That worked for a show that opened in the spring, but Gypsy begins 7 months before the Tonys and is only on sale through June 29.
Good as she was (the best Dolly I saw in that revival), it was an expensive flex by a producer who does not work anymore. Putting the standby on once a week probably would have sold nearly as many tickets, and the costs would have been far lower.
that arrangement only works for someone who is otherwise fine with being unemployed 6 days a week (or, in the very unique and not-replicated Kathie Lee Gifford/Putting It Together situation decades ago, hosting a talkshow)
it was, to my knowledge, a rather unhappy experience for a lot of people involved.
Since Audra has no day-off noted, we can safely assume she's contracted to do 8 shows a week and any reduction in her performance schedule would occur on an as-needed basis.
I don't live in NYC but bought tickets for Saturday December 7th, matinee which had much better availability than that Saturday's evening performance.
I am now wondering if Gypsy will have an alternate at certain performances and if I bought a ticket for a time when Audra won't be performing. Does anybody know if Audra will really be singing two Saturday shows? And if there's an alternate, can I get my money back or switch to a performance when Audra will be singing.
Any advice?
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
Audra has certainly sung more difficult roles. There is no indication that she will have an alternate, and no other Rose in the past needed an alternate.
BroadwayBaby6 said: "I don't live in NYC but bought tickets for Saturday December 7th, matinee which had much better availability than that Saturday'sevening performance.
I am now wondering if Gypsy will have an alternate at certain performances and if I bought a ticket for a time when Audra won't be performing. Does anybody know if Audra will really be singing two Saturday shows? And if there's an alternate, can I get my money back or switch to a performance when Audra will be singing.
Any advice?"
Since Audra has no day-off noted, we can safely assume she's contracted to do 8 shows a week and any reduction in her performance schedule would occur on an as-needed basis.
I've been thinking about her vocals and how she'll sound singing the score, and I think it's likely it will sound similar to how she sang "Old Maid" from 110 in the Shade. They famously lowered the key for her, obviously to give her a more raw and somewhat "beltier" sound.
ljay889 said: "I've been thinking about her vocals and how she'll sound singing the score, and I think it's likely itwill sound similar to how she sang "Old Maid" from 110 in the Shade. They famously lowered the key for her, obviously to give her a more raw and somewhat "beltier" sound.
She is certainly not going to sing Rose in her operatic soprano like some arefearing."
The highest note in the Merman version of Gypsy is the C above middle C.
Historically, on B'Way, she's belted higher and she belts higher currently in concert. She'll be fine.
I'm sure she'll approach it very differently than Merman, Lansbury, Daly, Peters, and La Lupone, but they have all approached the score very differently from one another.
Graymerchant said: "Do we have indication on who is on the design team? Hoping this is indicative of Dolly’s spectacle..."
GYPSY doesn't strike me as a show that needs the opulence of DOLLY. Wolfe also told the NYT “The thing that keeps on resonating with me is the idea of not enough: not enough space, not enough love, not enough money,” which might indicate that maybe he doesn't see this as an extravagant story.
Unless he switches up his team from other recent shows, we'll probably get some combo of - scenic by David Rockwell, Santo Loquasto, or Riccardo Hernandez - costumes by Toni-Leslie James, Santo, Ann Roth (maybe retired now?), or Emilio Sosa (Audra's frequent collaborator) - lighting by Jules & Peggy
Wick3 said: "Do you think Billy Porter would be involved in this production? Like perform as Mama Rose once a week to give Audra a break?"
...................what?
no!
See comment #436 outlining why the Donna Murphy DOLLY situation (if that prompted your detached-from-reality thinking) was a total anomaly, not a precedent-setter.
I doubt Audra needs "a break" –– since Audra has no day-off noted, we can safely assume she's contracted to do 8 shows a week and any reduction in her performance schedule would occur on an as-needed basis –– and if she did need a break, her once-a-week alternate would not be a cis man with more than twice as many followers. You'd hear the feminist screams from miles away!!