GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#1GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 2:50pmThe show is set to start rehearsals in a couple of weeks, and they still have yet to announce the rest of the cast? Anybody heard any updates?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 3:02pmi havent heard anything...i emailed ASK PATTI @ asked whom we should lobby to record the show & she replied, "I dont know...City Center?" which isnt a satisfying answer but it was still a thrill to receive an email from Patti (or her representative)!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 4:42pmI know for a fact that Loretta Swit has been approached to do both Miss Ratchitt and Tessie Tura.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:05pm
That's what Patti likes to think about any show she's in ;-0
Without a good Louise, Herbie, June and Tulsa, not to mention the strippers, the show can fall pretty flat.
#5re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:07pmThe most recent Broadway revival overcame those casting issues quite well, Tom, thanks to its Rose.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#6re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:12pm
Well, I think what Tom says makes sense though. Of course the show is driven by Rose and it was written as such. However, if you don't have a Louise that is able to make a successful transition in the audience's eyes from Louise to Gypsy Rose Lee, or a winning Herbie, or a June that can make you understand how faulty Rose's behavior is...then the show will definitely be less enjoyable and the theme less powerful.
I've read before that Tammy Blanchard was one of the reasons the GYPSY revival didn't thrive, not sure if that's true or not, but I do think that GYPSY is not all about Rose. Though in the case of a revival starring Peters it'd have been all about Rose for me 
"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"
#7re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:15pmIt was definitely all about Peters for me, ray. The rest of the cast was subpar, except for the strippers, who weren't onstage enough to salvage the rest of the production.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:29pm
...but think how much better the production will be if *all* the talent is quality!!!
i *love* Patti but i dont want it to be "all about Patti"....
i want:
• a Louise who can bring a tear to the eye on LITTLE LAMB
• a JUNE who can get an honest laugh when she sings to CAROLINE
• a HERBIE that you can believe is in love with ROSE
• loveable strippers!!!!
#9re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:32pmI think that goes without saying.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#10re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:37pmA little birdie told me that a former Romance/Romance star will be one of the strippers.
#11re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:39pmI wouldn't mind a knockout Tulsa either...
"Now she wants to know WHY, if I'm so fabulous, I would WANT to take care of her child.....I answer with as much filigree and insouciance as I can muster, trying to slightly cock my head like Snow White listening to the animals. She, in turn, is aiming for more of a Diane-Sawyer-pose, looking for answers which will confirm that I am not there to steal her husband, jewelry, friends, or child. In that order."
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#12re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:40pmHah, interesting, as her standby in that show was one of the strippers in the 1989 revival.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#14re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:48pmAnd Tyne Daly's stand-by...
"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"
#15re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:50pmExactly, ray.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
TenThousandThings
Understudy Joined: 7/19/06
#16re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 6:56pmThey were still looking for a Baby June as of two days ago. I think everything else has been cast.
#17re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:38pm
"i *love* Patti but i dont want it to be "all about Patti"....
i want:
• a Louise who can bring a tear to the eye on LITTLE LAMB
• a JUNE who can get an honest laugh when she sings to CAROLINE
• a HERBIE that you can believe is in love with ROSE
• loveable strippers!!!!"
I just need the Patti.
#18re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:39pmEven though I'm sure Patti will be fantastic, I agree with Norn. The rest of the cast should be strong as well, particulary Louise.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#19re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:44pm
That cast better be knockout because if Patti gets into warble mode, I'm outta there.
#20re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:48pm
Patti says: Oh No You Di'nt!!
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#21re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:50pmOh my gosh, where is that picture from? It's priceless!
#22re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 8:55pmI found it on Patti's website. It was her in "Mahogany" in California.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#23re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 11:43pmI'm sure they are gonna go for different casting than the recent revival but I wouldn't mind seeing the Brilliant Mazzepa of Kate Buddeke again.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#24re: GYPSY at City Center? Casting?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 11:57pm
Wait a second. People didn't like Tammy?
I must be certfiably nuts. I hated Bernadette, and LOVED Tammy.
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