Caroline O'Connor to star in UK revival of GYPSY- Page 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #25

Posted: 3/23/12 at 3:21pm

No thread about this production is complete without the unnerving poster.

[ChenoKahn]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #26

Posted: 3/23/12 at 3:23pm

The poster isn't that bad.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #27

Posted: 3/23/12 at 3:24pm

Really? All that photoshopping has made her eyes look really wonky.

[ChenoKahn]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #28

Posted: 3/23/12 at 3:29pm

Yeah but the poster is pretty good beside the photoshopping.

[best12bars]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #29

Posted: 3/23/12 at 5:19pm

They turned her into a Picasso.

Love Caroline, though!

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[Owen22]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #30

Posted: 3/23/12 at 5:49pm

I'm seeing this on the 3rd of April. I fell in love with her from a mere video of her doing two songs from "Sweeney" in the recent "In English" Paris production. When I heard she was doing "Follies" at Chicago Shake's last fall I made sure I got to Chicago. Though completely miscast as Phyllis, she was still fantastic, and being a dancer, it was the best danced Lucy/Jesse I've ever seen (it was choreographed "Fosse-style").

While in England I'm also seeing the Michael Ball/Imelda Staunton "Sweeney". (among other things).

Updated On: 3/23/12 at 05:49 PM

[somethingwicked]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #31

Posted: 3/23/12 at 6:47pm

I was pretty shocked to read O'Connor was playing Phyllis myself, Owen22. She seems like such a Carlotta to me.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[Jordan Catalano]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #32

Posted: 3/23/12 at 7:37pm

She looks like Julie White in that poster.

[juggles]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #33

Posted: 3/23/12 at 8:11pm

I wish posters would stop putting up photos without reducing them to match with a thread. They take all the width up...dreadful. You can reduce the size, you know? thickos

Updated On: 3/23/12 at 08:11 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #34

Posted: 3/23/12 at 8:28pm

You're Welkos.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #35

Posted: 3/23/12 at 9:03pm

Did someone take a photo down or something, because the one I posted didn't change anything. Maybe you need to spring for a bigger screen.

Updated On: 3/23/12 at 09:03 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #36

Posted: 3/23/12 at 9:43pm

It fits perfectly fine on my moderately sized laptop.

[Scripps2]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #37

Posted: 3/23/12 at 9:53pm

A rare outing for Gypsy in the UK - this will only be the second time I've seen the show.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #38

Posted: 3/23/12 at 10:00pm

Scripps, I can't wait to hear what you think--of the show and of O'Connor. I don't know her work, but I've admired the clips I've seen.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #39

Posted: 3/23/12 at 10:48pm

I love her, too! I just think she was airbrushed to the point of looking like a young Molly Picon.

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #40

Posted: 3/24/12 at 12:03am

BettyBoy...those are fighting words! from RC in Austin, Texas

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

[theeatah]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #41

Posted: 3/24/12 at 7:32am

I had to post this as a counter to that awfully photoshopped image.

Speaking of Follies, I wonder if Caroline O'Connor will get to give Broadway a taste of her Phyllis in the Hal Prince revue...

Btw, I don't think she looks like "a Phyllis" but I don't think she was miscast. I thought she was excellent in the role: smart, tart, and dry as a martini.

[alterego]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #42

Posted: 3/24/12 at 8:59am

In the poster she looks like Fanny Brice.

[hermajesty]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #43

Posted: 3/27/12 at 10:58am

I hope this transfers to London. Are there any reviews out yet?

All problems are man made and so, can be man solved.

[FrontRowDress]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #44

Posted: 3/27/12 at 11:34am

5 stars Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/mar/16/gypsy-review
3 stars Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9146874/Gypsy-Leicester-Curve-review.html
Rave Mark Shenton in The Stage http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/35585/gypsy
Rave Me http://frontrowdress.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/gypsy-leicester-curve-saturday-17-march.html

[Unknown User]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #45

Posted: 3/27/12 at 1:41pm

She was absolutely dazzling in Follies. Seriously- one of the two or three greatest stage performances I have ever seen. I'd love to see her Gypsy.

[Matt2]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #46

Posted: 3/27/12 at 10:18pm

Charles Spencer, writer of the Telegraph review writes: "Gypsy, with a book by Arthur Laurents, splendidly brash, brassy music by Jule Styne and superb lyrics by the young Stephen Sondheim, is rarely revived..."

I thought maybe he was just talking about Gypsy rarely playing in the UK but he goes on to talk about the Sam Mendes Broadway revival. What gives? Gypsy has got to be one of the most revived shows out there.

[Bettyboy72]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #47

Posted: 3/27/12 at 10:31pm

I'd kill to see this. That poster isn't flattering. O'Connor is fantastic. She won't be flashing her granny panties like Tovah-I can guarantee you that.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

[Matt2]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #48

Posted: 3/27/12 at 10:34pm

Awww, that's too bad!

[AnythingGoes2]

Caroline O'Connor to star in London revival of GYPSY #49

Posted: 3/28/12 at 3:56pm

She is a great talent! He show is doing good trade... Few producers checked it out this week and more due, so who knows what life there could be..

London hasn't seen Gypsy since the early 70s with Angela Lansbury (who replaced Elaine Stritch due to low sales) at the Pixcadilly. Delores Grey closed the London show.

Cameron tried to bring the Tyne Daly 1990 Broadway show to London and it almost did a season at the Prince of Wales, but it fell apart. Chichester Festival Theatre from 2005 to 2007 tried to entice Elaine Paige to star in a revival but her complex scheduled neve agreed, they even themed a season so Gypsy could work but had to go with Carousel in the end, I forget the year. David Ian also tried to bring the LuPone production in. He had the Shaftesbury Theatre lined up for a 12 week season between Hairspray and David Ian's production of Flashdance in 2010. However, LuPone was too expensive and demanded too much that plans wer scrapped. Rumours surfaced again last year it was trying to come in but now David Ian has abandoned totally.

Perhaps this show will try ... Although new rumour is Imelda Stauton is in talks to revive the show at the National next year...