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Ethel Merman in Gypsy

Ethel Merman in Gypsy

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1971FolliesFan
#1Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 11:09am

Just thought I ought to share this in case anyone hadn't seen it. Really wonderful! 


And the colour footage at the end isn't even the one I have up on Youtube. 


https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Ethel-Merman-David-Merrick-More-in-Rare-Footage-from-Original-GYPSY-Rehearsal-20150713 


 

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Scoobs2
#2Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 11:30am

Hearing Ethel sing "Small World" so beautifully is enchanting and haunting. It's almost like she is singing to the entire world.

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1971FolliesFan
#3Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 11:35am

Yes, that recording of the rehearsal piano is certainly eerie, but Ethel's voice is as wonderful as always. 

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PalJoey
#4Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 12:11pm

I will go to my deathbed hoping against all hope that somewhere someone has video of Merman in Gypsy.


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TheatreDiva90016
#5Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 12:15pm

How is she?  Any good?  Does she stage door?  What does the curtain look like?  Does she do lol eight shows a week?  Who's her understudy?


 


I have heard she's got a big voice...


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1971FolliesFan
#6Ethel Merman in Gypsy
Posted: 7/13/15 at 12:22pm

Well Joey, there is the Ray Knight footage, but it's under a minute's worth of silent 8mm colour footage. It includes Some People and Rose's Turn, as well as some other scenes and the curtain calls. Plus there is this "new" colour footage I'd never seen or heard about that came with the black and white rehearsal footage. The rehearsal footage was apparently shot by Gypsy Rose Lee (she said so in an interview). 


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