GYPSY Reviews — Page 7

#151

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:36pm

It'll be interesting to see what effect these raves have on the box office.

*I'm going TWO more times. My husband works in the neighborhood.*

(Who remembers that lady?!?!?)

#152

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:38pm

I think the reviews will make the box office soar. Then once the show wins possibly 3 Tonys, they will soar through 09.

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 11:38 PM

#153

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:41pm

Hopefully the reviews don't make Laurents' heart soar too high.

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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..."

#154

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:41pm

Who else here is praying that there will be a video on BWW or Broadway.com of the opening night curtain call?
I'm guessing Patti's bow blew the roof off the St. James.
Speaking of the bows, who bows right before Patti? Boyd or Laura?

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"Y'all have a GRAND day now"

#155

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:41pm

Just got back from opening night. I was blown away. Incredible. A VERY long standing O after Patti's Rose's Turn.

#156

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:42pm

*is jealous and happy*

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 11:42 PM

#157

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:42pm

Princeton, Benanti and Gaines come out together and do a dual bow. Then Gaines has his solo bow, then Benanti.

#158

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:42pm

Boyd and Laura come out together.

#159

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:46pm

When just the other day I could get center mezz seats row D, now the best I can get is center mezz row P for a weekend in April.

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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..."

#160

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:51pm

Tonight's show was absolutely AMAZING!

There are no words to describe Rose's Turn...the best I've seen. (And I've seen a few!)

Miss Patti is pretty much the most important woman in New York at the moment. Her entrance applause lasted a really long time. Laura got an extenseive entrance applause as well.

I saw Donna Murphy (who looked AMAZING), Ms. Angela Lansbury, and Matthew Broderick.

#161

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:52pm

VERY glad to hear Lansbury was there. Doubt Bernadette will visit this production.

#162

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:58pm

Ms. Lansbury was so adorable. She was one of the first to stand at curtain call - she just seemed really, really happy.

#163

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:59pm

LOVE her. What a gracious woman.

#164

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:02am

Wish I had seen it, but I'm sure it'll be around for a while. I def. see all the Revials sweeping the Tonys this year.

#165

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:06am

"Doubt Bernadette will visit this production."

Why do you think that?

#166

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:09am

I just don't see it happening.

#167

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:13am

Lansbury has always struck me as the epitome of class.

""Doubt Bernadette will visit this production."

Why do you think that?"

Well, considering the unkind things Laurents has said publicly about her production, I doubt she'd visit this production either.

#168

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:13am

Just came back from opening night! There are no words to describe the night except Sondheim's quip "lets give a round of applause for Jule"!

As a little aside, Patti took Bernadette's performance in Gypsy personally (as she felt she was entitled to the role) so why would Bernadette go into the snake pit (for lack of a better term)?

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Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

#169

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:14am

Exactly, Adam and Gypsy.

About Bernie.

#170

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:20am

I know it's still early in the run, but does anyone have any predictions of how long this will run? It would be appreciated.

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One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015

#171

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:20am

IMO, it's not as much about Laurents who she is still very close with, recently attending Fame Becomes Me with him, when she was the surpise guest but more about the supposed animosity with Patti.

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Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

#172

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:23am

I know it's still early in the run, but does anyone have any predictions of how long this will run? It would be appreciated.

If it can garner some major tony's and with these reviews, this revival will last at least a year if not longer.

#173

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:23am

John Simon is a Rave, calling it "the definitive 'Gypsy'":

No matter how many times you've seen ``Gypsy,' you arguably haven't experienced it as fully as you may now on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. I think I have caught them all, starting with the legendary Ethel Merman in the premiere, but it is this one that has definitive written all over it.

In Patti LuPone's Mama Rose, Boyd Gaines's Herbie and Laura Benanti's Louise, the musical has that radiant nucleus around which everything else coalesces into a parade of delights. This is the ``nec plus ultra' of ``Gypsy' productions, than which I can imagine none greater.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601098&sid=a6asN3pKK.GM&refer=movie

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

#174

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:26am

At this point, I think it's safe tos ay that the show will run on its original schedule (I think through October, right?). If Gypsy scoops up one or more Tonys, who knows how long it will go.

#175

re: GYPSY Reviews

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:28am

Thanks zoo. I'm going to NY in June, and I'm pretty irrationally afraid about it closing before then. Haha.

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One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome. - theaterkid1015