Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

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Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 1:43pm

Here is one from her Rose's Turn.

Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

The rest are here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YvTFUhHAto&NR=1

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 1:59pm

MAKE SURE to check out the commercial for the Tyne Daly version which is right to the right of this film. It's a HOOT.

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re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:03pm

I did it looks really Funky. I also took a stab at coloring some of the pictures. Here is Ethel in Rose's Turn the skin is a little off though.

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:03pm

Tyne's played the St. James too!?! I didn't know that, and think that is pretty cool!!

And thanks! I Love the pics!

"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:01pm

What was Ethel doing at the typewriter?

If you look to the right, there is also a fascinating interview of Ethel Merman done by Mary Martin and Jim Hartz.

Jim Hartz: Is there anything you would change or do differently?
Ethel (without missing a beat): Yeah, a couple of husbands.

At the end, Mary and Ethel sing a version of "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better."

Updated On: 6/19/08 at 05:01 PM

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:20pm

I think that was while she was writing her Auto-Biography.

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:49pm

Before she got her break in show business Ethel was a secretary with excellent shorthand and typing skills. She put them to good use in rehearsals taking down changes in shorthand and typing up copies for everyone. In all her years she did all her own correspondence and never hired a secretary.

Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 5:55pm

The YOUTUBE sequence of pictures with the overture in the background is great! There are photographs of the wonderful, garish "Minsky's Salute to Christmas", dropped in subsequent productions in favor of the less expensive and, IMO, less funny "Minsky's Salute to the Garden of Eden". The latter uses fewer showgirls and is thus less expensive. The original production had 15 showgirls in that scene, most of whom were unused in the rest of the show. The original spared no expense.

I have some of the photographs seen in the YOUTUBE sequence and also have a numbered engraving of the Hirschfeld drawing of the GYPSY principals. I treasure them.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 6:26pm

That Tyne commercial is hilariously awful.
Call 2. 1. 2. 4. 6. 0. 1.

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re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/19/08 at 6:31pm

I tried calling the number and it hangs up after one ring!

-Benjamin
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re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:44pm

"What was Ethel doing at the typewriter"

If Mary Martin's husband could win a shorthand contest anywhere Ethel could win a typing contest anywhere. Ethel would always type up the changes and re-arranges they made in the shows and especially in Gypsy and Call Me Madam. She lived at her typewriter, or possibly she was answering mail. She never hand-wrote a letter, it was always typed up so she could make a copy and put it in her scrapbooks. I should now I used to spend hours talking to her when she used to answer her mail and type up the copies and she would make me put them in her books or I'd stamp them and send them out for her.

#12

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:51pm

OK, that commercial was bad. But funny.

KFTC!!!!!

#13

re: Found a bunch of pictures from GYPSY original run.

Posted: 6/27/08 at 5:17am

Nice history on the show. I think the girl who played Louise with Merman looked a bit like Laura. And Lupone echoes Merman a bit as well (notice I said "a bit").

Updated On: 6/27/08 at 05:17 AM

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