I honestly don't think GYPSY will ever be a sell-out hit, has it ever? Maybe the double win by LuPone and Benanti will change that, but I just feel this isn't the kind of show that tourists are aching to see. I remember I dated an idiot once who told me he wanted to see GYPSY (back in '03/'04) because he was a Peters fan but that his friend told him it was sad so he decided not to see it; his favorite shows are MAMMA MIA and THE LION KING... Something tells me he is more representative of the avg. tourists than I'd like to think.
I am SOOOO happy for IN THE HEIGHTS and PASSING STRANGE, little shows that could. It's great to see minorities succeeding on the Great WHITE Way.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"