GYPSY Reviews — Page 5

#101

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:24pm

And again, I'm jumping in before reading the dates. Sorry.

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Updated On: 3/27/08 at 10:24 PM

#102

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:25pm

How is Brantley's review mixed to positive? There's nothing remotely mixed about his review.

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#103

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:26pm

That was my bad, sorry. It is obviously a rave - I was reading a review from one of the concerts.

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#104

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:26pm

That's what is called a Valentine, Brantley rarely gives one of these unless your name is Kristin Chenoweth.
Congrats to LuPone. But also congrats to Laura Benanti, Leigh Ann Larkin, and Boyd Gaines, recipients of love letters signed by Brantley as well.

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#105

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:27pm

YAY!!

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#106

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:28pm

nvm

yay patti

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 10:28 PM

#107

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:28pm

Here is the good one:

http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/13303

In a performance that'll have musical comedy fanatics buzzing for months, LuPone executes a show-biz finish to end all finishes. And -- get this! -- it's even been heightened by the 89-year-old Laurents, now the show's director, since it was presented as part of City Center Encores! Summer Stars series last year. If this brilliantly jarring fade-out doesn't cop LuPone her second Tony Award, we can assume there's truly little justice left in the world.

Rave.

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 10:28 PM

#108

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:29pm

But I was so caught up in the emotional wrestling matches between the characters (and within themselves), that I didn’t really think about the songs as songs.

That should put an end to the canard that Patti is just making big sounds.

We are witnessing the greatest Rose of our lives.

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#109

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:30pm

Patti LuPone might just have a chance for that Tony after all.

Laura Benanti has it. She just does.

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
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#110

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:30pm

and yes PJ... I hope those Patti-haters here will finally keep f****mouth shut!

Soo glad... I saw Miss Pattty's glorious performance last Saturday!!

Congrats again to the cast!!!

J*

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 10:30 PM

#111

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:31pm

#112

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:31pm

Gypsaters!

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#113

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:31pm

If this brilliantly jarring fade-out doesn't cop LuPone her second Tony Award, we can assume there's truly little justice left in the world.

WOW!

#114

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:32pm

nope.. theyre called SH*T-stirrers!

#115

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:33pm

Patti LuP-haters?

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#116

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:35pm

LOVE this quote from TheatreMania.

LuPone hits no false notes as the now -sympathetic, now-monstrous Rose. LuPone hits no false melodic notes either. There was a time when the plush-sounding songbird caressed vowels as if they were silk sheets but treated consonants in the off-handed manner that Rose treats Louise, but no more. Furthermore, whereas at City Center, she sometimes delivered numbers as if she were on a nightclub floor, she now gives herself over entirely to Rose's monomania.

I agree.

#117

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:37pm

Could we have a trio of acting winners?
Lupone, Benanti and Gaines?

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#118

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:37pm

Congratulations to Patti, Laura, and all others involved! I'm so happy about these reviews! I can not wait to see this next month!

#119

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:38pm

I think all 3 could and should win. They are all getting raves.

#120

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:40pm

though I still think that the BEST REVIVAL will go to Sunday in the Park and Lead Actress to Patti LuPone & Featured to Laura Benanti.. They probably would split it meaning SITPwG getting the REVIVAL while the two actress for GYPSY getting the acting awards.

J*

#121

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:41pm

I am so happy for everyone involved in this production.

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"I mean, sitting side by side with another man watching Patti LuPone play Rose in GYPSY on Broadway is essentially the equivalent of having hardcore sex." -Wanna Be A Foster. "Say 'Goody.' Say 'Bubbi.'" ... "That's it. Exactly as if it were 'Goody.' Now I know you're gonna sing 'Goody' this time, but nevertheless..."

#122

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:41pm

I think at least Benanti and LuPone will win. Boyd Gaines is a Tony-darling so it wouldn't surprise me if he won too.

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"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"

#123

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:41pm

Bring on the Tonys!


"Boyd Gaines is a Tony-darling so it wouldn't surprise me if he won too."


I'd love to see him win!

Is it wrong that I find Boyd Gaines very attractive...dare I say it...sexy?

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 10:41 PM

#124

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:42pm

I am rooting for all three as well! But as Jaystarr pointed out I think it would be only fair if Sunday won best revival.

#125

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:42pm

CurtainUp (for whatever it's worth):

Following in the footsteps of numerous stars, LuPone has put her own amazingly unique footprint on the role. She's made the volcanic second act aria, "Rose's Turn," an unforgettable "Patti's Turn." And Laurents has managed to find new depths in his own brilliant book, so that for all of the tuneful hit-upon-hit Styne score and inspired, character defining Sondheim lyrics, this is as much a play with integral music as a musical with a strong story line.

Thanks to the enduring brilliance of the book, music and lyrics, the excellence of the cast headed by the galvanic LuPone, Arthur Laurents' nuanced direction and the on the mark stagecraft. . . everything at the St. James is indeed coming up roses. With all this talent no gimmick is needed and awards galore are a sure thing.

http://www.curtainup.com/gypsyencores.html

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE