#201
Posted: 5/29/24 at 11:49am
RA YP seems like Audra Gypsy to me
CONFIRMED: Audra McDonald-led GYPSY to begin previews Nov 2024 — Page 9
#202
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
#203
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.
#204
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."
#205
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.
#206
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.
“I am furious, but I am sailing.”
#207
Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:01pm
In the swamps of New Orleans, still? Lol
#208
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
#209
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
#210
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.
“I am furious, but I am sailing.”
Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:06 PM
#211
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
#212
Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:12pm
This is thrilling news. Nicole or Audra next year is already stressing me out. GYPSY is BACK!!
#213
Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:12pm
Reddit says previews start Nov 21
#214
Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:43pm
I really like how they originally teased the red and yellow letter. Roses and daffodils!
“I am furious, but I am sailing.”
Updated On: 5/29/24 at 12:43 PM
#215
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."
#216
Posted: 5/29/24 at 12:51pm
theatergoer3 said: "Reddit says previews start Nov 21"
Yup, site leaked and it was on there.
#217
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
#218
Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:01pm
This just feels so right.
#219
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.
#220
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
#221
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!
#222
Posted: 5/29/24 at 1:42pm
Did the site list a closing date?
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#223
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).
#224
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
#225
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.
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