CONFIRMED: Audra McDonald-led GYPSY to begin previews Nov 2024- Page 9

[willep]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#200

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:49am

RA  YP seems like Audra Gypsy to me

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#201

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:50am

Here's hoping it starts spelling "New Orleans Flavor" next.

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#202

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:53am

Call_me_jorge said: "here is a screenshot of what it looked like."

Finally, a director! George C. Wolfe!!! That's more exciting than Audra, tbh.

At other points people on here had claimed it was Trevor Nunn and Simon Godwin.

[Kad]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#203

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:56am

I’m hearing there will be a big ad in the Sunday Times.

George C. Wolfe directing is VERY exciting. Seals the deal for me.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[jkcohen626]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#204

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:57am

Wolfe and Brown as the Director/Choreo pairing for this is super exciting!!! Definitly seems to confirm they'll be leaning into Audra (and I'd assume June and Louise) being Black. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#205

Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:57am

I’m curious to see what Camille A. Brown brings to the table. She is one of the industry’s finest choreographers at the moment. 

"When we die, we go bye bye." - Abe Lincolns

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#206

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:01pm

In the swamps of New Orleans, still? Lol

[Call_me_jorge]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#207

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:06pm

Any idea who might be the lead producer behind this?

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[Kad]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#208

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:06pm

Well, nobody is credited as doing book revisions, but is the addition of “suggested by the memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee” new for this production? “Suggested by” is interesting phrasing. 

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:06 PM

[EDSOSLO858]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#209

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:06pm

Tom Kirdahy is lead producer, so I hear.

And it’s opening later this year, *not* in the spring. 

"When we die, we go bye bye." - Abe Lincolns

Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:06 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#210

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:10pm

Kad said: "Well, nobody is credited as doing book revisions, but is the addition of “suggested by the memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee” new for this production? “Suggested by” is interesting phrasing."

it has always been "suggested by"

https://www.moviepostershop.com/gypsy-broadway-movie-poster-1959/CI6145

https://playbill.com/production/gypsy-broadway-theatre-vault-0000012292

https://playbill.com/production/gypsy-st-james-theatre-vault-0000004168

Robbins' credit and ho wmuch of his work will be used is of interest to me. His work is much less integral to GYPSY (a "musical staging" show at best) than his other shows, and I believe the LuPone production departed quite a bit from his work, despite the credit saying otherwise.

Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:10 PM

[BCfitasafiddle]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#211

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

This is thrilling news. Nicole or Audra next year is already stressing me out. GYPSY is BACK!!

[theatergoer3]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#212

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

Reddit says previews start Nov 21 

[EDSOSLO858]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#213

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:43pm

I really like how they originally teased the red and yellow letter. Roses and daffodils!

"When we die, we go bye bye." - Abe Lincolns

Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:43 PM

[Kad]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#214

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:47pm

Best Actress in a Musical next year is going to be nuts. 

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[JBM84]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#215

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:51pm

theatergoer3 said: "Reddit says previews start Nov 21"

Yup, site leaked and it was on there. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#216

Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:58pm

I’m so glad this is finally, actually happening. As much as I love Audra - and for how long I’ve lived in NY - I’m a bit embarrassed to say I’ve never seen her perform live, but this is exactly the show I’d want to be my first time experiencing that.

Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:58 PM

[BroadwayNYC2]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#217

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:01pm

This just feels so right. 

[Play Esq.]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#218

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:03pm

BroadwayNYC2 said: "This just feels so right."

It does. She’s at the perfect age and at the height of her powers. Her recent shows demonstrate what we already knew: she will nail this.

[Call_me_jorge]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#219

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:12pm

Looks like my previous reply was deleted, but here is a screenshot of the leaked website 

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[MadsonMelo]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#220

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:22pm

Feels right that Audra McDonald will become the most nominated performer at the Tonys doing the most important role of musical theater!

[starlightexpress2]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#221

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:42pm

Did the site list a closing date?

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[OhHiii]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#222

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:46pm

You know Smash has got to be peeved that there are going to be two very similar logos in the landscape (assuming this will run into 2025 when Smash is said to come in). 

[Strange Lupone]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#223

Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:49pm

Any sense of what theater this is going into?

“I attended Gypsy last night with several family members that are staying at the same hotel . I walked them to the elevators and as I was leaving, Audra came in fast and this disgusting, huge, ogre of a man came blasting through the revolving door, nearly falling. He got extremely close to her, shoved a playbill in her face and said "I came alllll the way from Houston so you OWE me an autograph sister". Four security guards from the hotel staff immediately swarmed him until the cops arrived. It was horrifying and women have experienced this kind of illegal, terrifying behavior forever. If you were followed back to where you were staying in the city OP, pretty sure you wouldn't call it "foolery" because it's not. It's felony stalking. Do better. And I will NEVER be quiet regarding women's safety (especially by loser men in this thread) as this has happened to me and millions of other women as well. Enough..” —-Sutton Ross, 8/16/25 “Pretty incredible coincidence that the night before this post was made, Sutton was allegedly not only at Gypsy, but ended up at the same hotel, managed to witness an incident that perfectly aligns with the topic at hand, stayed long enough to see how it resolved despite being with family members, and it wasn’t even the first thing she replied to this thread with- she only brought it up after she had been challenged by multiple members. ” — Kad, 8/16/25

[Jordan Catalano]

Audra McDonald-led GYPSY for 2024-2025 Season?#224

Posted: 5/29/24 at 2:11pm

Rumor is The Majestic but it would fare better (I think) in The Broadhurst, if that signage is any indicator.