Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

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Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:04pm

Per Playbill:

"LuPone, who previously played the stage mother of all stage mothers at the Ravinia Festival, will be joined onstage by Boyd Gaines as Herbie, Laura Benanti as Louise, Leigh Ann Larkin as Dainty June, Tony Yazbeck as Tulsa, Alison Fraser as Tessie Tura, Nancy Opel as Mazeppa/Miss Cratchitt, Marilyn Caskey as Electra, Sami Gayle as Baby June, Emma Rowley as Baby Louise, Jim Bracchita as Uncle Jocko/Pastey, Bill Bateman as George/Mr. Goldstone/Bougeron-Cochon, Bill Raymond as Pop/Cigar and Brian Reddy as Weber/Phil."

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/108491.html

#2

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:06pm

Benanti as Louise = BRILLIANCE.

I cannot wait.

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#3

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:07pm

Wow!

Can't wait. Looks like a great cast.

#4

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:08pm

OH MAN! LAURA AS LOUISE! I THINK I JUST DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN!

#5

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:10pm

/sigh.

Oh, well, it's still Patti. I'll be there several times, including the first preview.

#6

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:11pm

Benanti and Yazbek are too old for those roles.
Talented, but too old.

#7

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:12pm

Oh my gosh. Laura Benanti as Louise?? Wow, I am SO MAD! I am leaving New York the day before GYPSY starts. I would kill to see her in this show!

Wow, this ruined my day.

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#8

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:12pm

Laura's 26 or 27...she just looks a lot older on stage.

#9

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:18pm

Oh, OK.
Isn't the show gonna be ON a stage?

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 02:18 PM

#10

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:21pm

I mean, how the heck she's going to pull off "Little Lamb" (where Louise is what, 14?) I have no clue, but she's definitely the right age range to play the part.

#11

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:22pm

yay i'm so glad i have a ticket for this!

#12

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:27pm

Helluva cast! I can't wait for opening night.

#13

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:37pm

Laura might be the single handed most OVER rated person on broadway. What a shame. Went for a name as opposed to talent.

can't wait for Patti though!

#14

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:41pm

Maybe if we're lucky Tina will u/s!

#15

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:43pm

Tina Maddigan as Louise would be FIERCE.

#16

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:45pm

anybody besides boring...boring....boring Laura...maybe she will call out as much as she has in the past and her understudy can go on!

Updated On: 6/1/07 at 02:45 PM

#17

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:47pm

i think Laura has a beautiful beautiful voice. i just think her acting sucks

#18

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:48pm

What a great cast! I love me some Tony Yazbeck.

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#19

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 2:50pm

What a fabulous cast!

#20

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:05pm

Benanti as Louise? I'm falling asleep in my seat already.

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#21

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:06pm

Right beside ya, AC.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#22

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:09pm

I'll bring the pillows if you bring the blankets.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#23

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:11pm

Laura Benanti is about the same age Tammy Blanchard was when she played Louise in the most recent revival. I agree that Benanti looks much older and more poised on stage. She's definitely not my ideal Louise.

#24

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:12pm

well i think EVERYONE can agree Laura Benanti will be better than Tammy Blanchard!

#25

re: Gaines, Benanti, Yazbek, Opel Confirmed for Encores Gypsy

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:17pm

I would certainly NOT agree to that.
Blanchard is a fine actress and besides, Louise is not really a singing role, it's more acting and strutting.