GYPSY 2025 Broadway Cast Recording Thread

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/10/25 at 10:12am

Releases April 25 on digital and streaming platforms! Music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

"Together, Wherever We Go" will release tomorrow.

Updated On: 4/10/25 at 10:12 AM

[theblackumbrella]

Posted: 4/10/25 at 11:25am

Really wish they would’ve just gone with the “Audra Gypsy” art for the album.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/10/25 at 11:26am

 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/10/25 at 12:35pm

Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 12:07am

Track listing:

• ACT I
• 1. Overture
• 2. May We Entertain You
• 3. Some People
• 4. Seattle to Los Angeles (Some People Reprise)
• 5. Small World
• 6. Baby June and Her Newsboys (Let Me Entertain You)
• 7. Recitation
• 8. Military Routine
• 9. Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone
• 10. Little Lamb
• 11. You'll Never Get Away From Me
• 12. Dainty June and Her Farmboys
• 13. Broadway
• 14. If Momma Was Married
• 15. All I Need is the Girl
• 16. Everything's Coming Up Roses

 

• ACT II
• 17. Madame Rose's Toreadorables
• 18. Together, Wherever We Go
• 19. Which Way to Wichita?
• 20. You Gotta Get a Gimmick
• 21. Small World (Reprise)
• 22. The Strip — On the Road Again
• 23. I Thought You Did It for Me, Momma
• 24. Rose's Turn
• 25. Curtain Music

[Dolly80]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 3:24am

CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

Perfectly illustrated how lazy this production is creatively.

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 7:10am

I thought Audra gave a performance for the ages, but there is no way I would ever choose to listen to this recording over the LuPone recording. 

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 11:55am

Listening to that track, I still think her voice is wrong for the role. Was hoping--reading all the love from those who've seen the show--that the recording would show some development from her concert rendition of "Rose's Turn" demonstrating she could mold her voice to the material. Apparently, that never happened. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 12:00pm

Dolly80 said: "CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

Perfectly illustrated how lazy this production is creatively."



Uh, I wouldn’t exactly call this award-winning design. I can’t believe some people care this much about a promotional photoshoot.

Updated On: 4/11/25 at 12:00 PM

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 5:25pm

ColorTheHours048 said: "Dolly80 said: "CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

Perfectly illustrated how lazy this production is creatively."



Uh, Iwouldn’t exactly call this award-winning design. I can’t believe some people care thismuch about a promotional photoshoot."

That's a pretty bad comparison. I guess you could call the above art lazy (photoshop Patty over the title and done). But it actually connects to the show, to what it's about. That's a big Rose gesture, Rose is the essence show, and so it works. You see it and you have some sense of what the evening is about.

The photo of the new cast connects to the show not at all. It looks like the actors are about to attend an awards cermony or something. No one is posed or costumed in a way that either informs their characters or tells the potential buyer about the show. Which makes it look like absolutely no thought was given to conveying the material within the image. So, yeah, lazy. 

Updated On: 4/11/25 at 05:25 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 5:35pm

CATSNYrevival said: "Remember when people were insisting that photo of the cast around the trunk was placeholder artwork? Now it's the album cover."

I might have been one of those people (wishful thinking!!!!!!) but I can't believe they're using that on the Playbill cover and now the album cover. It looks awful and tells buyers nothing about the show.

The initial AUDRA GYPSY artwork would have been more exciting, even if it's limiting only to those who know who Audra is.

Also wonder how long they agonized about calling it the "2024 cast recording" vs "2025 cast recording" (being that the show opened in the final days of 2024 but was recorded in 2025)...shows have gone either way on that one.

Updated On: 4/11/25 at 05:35 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 5:45pm

joevitus said: "
That's a pretty bad comparison. I guess you could call the above art lazy (photoshop Patty over the title and done). But it actually connects to the show, to what it's about. That's a big Rose gesture, Rose is the essenceshow, and so it works. You see it and you have some sense of what the evening is about.

The photo of the new cast connects to the show not at all. It looks like the actors are about to attend an awards cermony or something. No one is posed or costumedin a way that either informstheir characters or tells the potential buyer aboutthe show. Which makes it look like absolutely no thought was given to conveying the material within the image. So, yeah, lazy."

The LuPone production art was a cheap Photoshop job using an existing production photo, for goddsake.

Neither is great but at least the McDonald revival actually did, y'know, a photoshoot. Hardly "lazy" even if the results weren't perfect.

Gypsy has not historically been a show blessed with particularly great art. No one is ever going to this show for the art. They're going for the leading lady.

Updated On: 4/11/25 at 05:45 PM

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 6:05pm

I don’t think pointing out how lazy and cheap the LuPone artwork looks in comparison to the McDonald artwork is a bad comparison at all. One looks slapdash; the other at least looks professional. Neither really give me a sense of what the show is about. Frankly, none of them do. To Kad’s point, looking at the artwork for each of the cast recordings, I’m not exactly seeing eye-capturing images or iconography that’s memorable in any way really.

The one that comes closest is Bernadette’s, in my opinion. And even that kind of looks like the story of a happy, fabulous woman if you have no idea what the story is.

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 6:47pm

Kad said: "joevitus said: "No one is ever going to this show for the art. They're going for the leading lady."

I hate this attitude. People love to use this kind of thinking whenever folks here are critical. Why shouldn't we hold all aspects of theater to a high standard? Marketing is very important and logo design, posters, playbills and album art is an actual art form (at least in my eyes). Thank goodness David Edward Byrd didn't share your sentiment when designing the original Follies art.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 7:00pm

FANtomFollies said: "Kad said: "joevitus said: "No one is ever going to this show for the art. They're going for the leading lady."

I hate this attitude. People love to use this kind of thinking whenever folks here are critical. Why shouldn't we hold all aspects of theater to a high standard? Marketing is very important and logo design, posters, playbills and album art is an actual art form (at least in my eyes). Thank goodness David Edward Byrd didn't share your sentiment when designing the original Follies art."

Would it be great if every production had a gallery-worthy poster? Sure. But most merely have serviceable key art. And that's fine. It's not the point. Getting bent out of shape over a show's key art is missing the forest for the trees.

Updated On: 4/11/25 at 07:00 PM

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 7:22pm

Kad said: "FANtomFollies said: "Kad said: "joevitus said: "No one is ever going to this show for the art. They're going for the leading lady."

I hate this attitude. People love to use this kind of thinking whenever folks here are critical. Why shouldn't we hold all aspects of theater to a high standard? Marketing is very important and logo design, posters, playbills and album art is an actual art form (at least in my eyes). Thank goodness David Edward Byrd didn't share your sentiment when designing the original Follies art."

Would it be great if every production had a gallery-worthy poster? Sure. But most merely have serviceable key art. And that's fine. It's not the point. Getting bent out of shape over a show's key art is missing the forest for the trees."

I agree to disagree.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 11:21pm

Some of y’all need to touch grass or smoke some, for goodness sake.

[theblackumbrella]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 11:49pm

Updated On: 4/12/25 at 11:49 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/11/25 at 11:54pm

My one complaint with the exemplary Patti LuPone Gypsy album is that it’s a product of its time: the war between various retailers on and offline meant that an entire second disc’s worth of bonus content and recording outtakes is split among hard copies and not part of a single comprehensive digital version. 
 

Same with “Once,” where if you wanted the entire cast recording you had to buy four different editions of the album.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 12:48am

That always annoyed me; knowing there was more of the cast album out there than I could hear. Especially since the filming of the production was cancelled. 

Updated On: 4/12/25 at 12:48 AM

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 3:21am

Kad said: "joevitus said: "
That's a pretty bad comparison. I guess you could call the above art lazy (photoshop Patty over the title and done). But it actually connects to the show, to what it's about. That's a big Rose gesture, Rose is the essenceshow, and so it works. You see it and you have some sense of what the evening is about.

The photo of the new cast connects to the show not at all. It looks like the actors are about to attend an awards cermony or something. No one is posed or costumedin a way that either informstheir characters or tells the potential buyer aboutthe show. Which makes it look like absolutely no thought was given to conveying the material within the image. So, yeah, lazy."

The LuPone production art was a cheap Photoshop job using an existing production photo, for goddsake.

Neither is great but at least the McDonald revival actually did, y'know, a photoshoot. Hardly "lazy" even if the results weren't perfect.

Gypsy has not historically been a show blessed with particularly great art. No one is ever going to this show for the art. They're going for the leading lady."

The Patty poster at least conveys something about the show. The new one doesn't. Literally no one is is costume, or striking poses that relate to their actual characters. And I'd say the original Gypsy cast album and the Lansbury revival had great art. 

Updated On: 4/12/25 at 03:21 AM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 4:39am

I wish the Lansbury cast album had been able to use the Broadway artwork. That illustration of Lansbury was pretty iconic Gypsy artwork if you ask me.

[binau]

Posted: 4/12/25 at 8:50am

joevitus said: "Listening to that track, I still think her voice is wrong for the role. Was hoping--readingall the love from those who've seen the show--that the recording would show some development from her concert rendition of "Rose's Turn" demonstrating she could mold her voice to the material. Apparently, that never happened."

I'm a little surprised that you would think her voice sounds wrong in a song like 'Together, Wherever We Go". Likewise for "Small World" and "You'll Never Get Away From Me" - I didn't really think these were the controversial songs. Same for Bernadette's performance I didn't think people have an issue with her in these songs, it's more the big 3: "Some People", "Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn". 

For me, I started to feel in safe hands when Audra first sang the note "aliveeee" in 'Some People' and a hundred and 'fiveeeeeee'. I assume it'll come through on the recording but if you listen to her 'Fiveeeee' it sounds like someone with a low, voluminous voice subtly belting the same kind of way Marin Mazzie might have not someone like Kelli O'Hara singing soprano head voice in 'Bridges' or 'The King and I'. (though there are some notes in the song, such as the blueberry pie and hey LA I"m coming your way that start to feel a little higher or soprano-like than people are used to that might take them out a little...only to return to her strong low last note).

In 'Coming Up Roses' some absolutely ferocious notes......e.g. after the (admittedly too high) curtain up, light the lights lines it goes back down to "I can TELLLLLLLL wait and SEEEEEEE, There's the BELLLLLL, FOLLOW MEEEE" it sounds like a hurricane. And the ending of the song it sounds like she is simultaneously straining every ounce of power out of her voice so it has this kind of husky quality while still delivering on pitch etc. I find it thrilling.  


Also did anyone know that Bernadette's Gypsy had a 20 year reunion recently???

Updated On: 4/12/25 at 08:50 AM

[joevitus]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 3:34am

binau said: "joevitus said: "Listening to that track, I still think her voice is wrong for the role. Was hoping--readingall the love from those who've seen the show--that the recording would show some development from her concert rendition of "Rose's Turn" demonstrating she could mold her voice to the material. Apparently, that never happened."

I'm a little surprised that you would think her voice sounds wrong in a song like 'Together, Wherever We Go". Likewise for "Small World" and "You'll Never Get Away From Me" - I didn't really think these were the controversial songs. Same for Bernadette's performance I didn't think people have an issue with her in these songs, it's more the big 3: "Some People", "Coming Up Roses" and "Rose's Turn".

For me, I started tofeelin safe hands when Audra first sang the note "aliveeee" in 'Some People' and a hundred and 'fiveeeeeee'. I assume it'll come through on the recording but if you listen to her 'Fiveeeee' it sounds like someone with a low, voluminous voice subtly belting the same kind of way Marin Mazzie might have not someone like Kelli O'Hara singing soprano head voice in 'Bridges' or 'The King and I'. (though there are some notes in the song, such as the blueberry pie and hey LA I"m coming your way that start to feel a little higher or soprano-like than people are used to that might take them out a little...only to return to her strong low last note).

In 'Coming Up Roses' some absolutely ferocious notes......e.g. after the (admittedly too high) curtain up, light the lights lines it goes back down to "I can TELLLLLLLL wait and SEEEEEEE, There's the BELLLLLL, FOLLOW MEEEE" it sounds like a hurricane. And the ending of the song it sounds like she is simultaneously straining every ounce of power out of her voice so it has this kind of husky quality while still delivering on pitch etc. I find it thrilling.


Also did anyone know that Bernadette's Gypsy had a 20 year reunion recently???

"

I've honestly been trying to think it through, and the best I have to explain my reaction is that her legit soprano sounds too cultured for Rose. She conveys class, which Rose has none of. I cant totally square this with my great enjoyment of her Lizzie in 110 in the Shade, but that role is meant for a soprano to begin with, and Lizzie, while a woman from a small Western town, is a woman who is cultured for her region and considers herself a "lady." Rose is not that at all. She's course, she's without much finesse, and she's blunt. And McDonald's voice doesn't convey any of that, at all. 

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 4/13/25 at 4:07am

joevitus said: "Listening to that track, I still think her voice is wrong for the role. Was hoping--readingall the love from those who've seen the show--that the recording would show some development from her concert rendition of "Rose's Turn" demonstrating she could mold her voice to the material. Apparently, that never happened."

Nope