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#125re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 2:23pmI love GYPSY so much and yet I just won't be able to get to NYC to see it, now living far from Broadway. I consider myself very lucky to have seen ALL of the Broadway Roses multiple times, beginning with Ethel Merman who was dynamite in that part. I so wanted to see Patti Lupone play Rose--I am a fan of her work and know that she must be wonderful. I have read all of the posts so far and have been re-living GYPSY vicariously through all of the excitement that the posts radiate. Consider yourselves lucky to be seeing what sounds like a landmark production! Maybe it will come to Broadway after London. One can only hope.
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#126re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 2:25pm
If GG even transfers, I sort of kinda hope that Patti would win.
But... come on, it's done ONE performance here in New York, and we're already talking about the award drama IF it transfers to London?
Come on...
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#130re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 3:49pm
Maybe Laurents can write "Gypsy 2" for Patti, showing the part when Mama Rose ran a lesbian boarding house and shot her girlfriend after she hit on Gypsy
Hellll no. My friend and I have already written it, it's called Mutch.
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#133re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:12pm
Pictures 
https://www.playbill.com/news/article/109457.html
I think I liked Patti's curled wig better from Ravinia.
#135re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:38pm
That's similar to Patti's natural hair, but it's definetly a wig.
Everyone (and everything) looks great!
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#137re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 6:44pm
I saw it last night. I've actually never been to a first preview. But, this read clean as a whistle. No sense of 'preview' unpreparedness.
That said-Patti was...INCREDIBLE...But, not revolutionary.
I thought she had a legitimate take on the role and carried it off beautifully. Her "Rose's Turn" was a smash. She also had an amazing supporting cast headed by the fantastic Laura Benanti, who really was terrific as Louise.
I thought Boyd Gaines was excellent as well.
Back to Patti-she played Rose as too inhuman and inaccessible IMO. I didn't get any vulnerability out of her. Rose was a really insecure person to demand the type of attention she did. Period.
I didn't get this sense from her at all. But, I enjoy her singing. I may go back if I can get a TKTS for a better seat. Perhaps once I see it again my opinion will change. (It did for Company. Who knows?)
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#138re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 7:44pm
I can't believe I forgot to get tickets to this until I read all the threads on it today. I've never seen a performance of Gypsy, and now I have seats to see this at the end of the month. Yay! Thanks for the reminder 
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#140re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:14pm
I can't get enough of this picture of Laura Benanti as the fantastic Gypsy Rose Lee, I have no idea how she is live but the picture looks eerily similar to some of Lee's photographs in terms of her essence and presence. Kudos to Benanti.
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#141re: Gypsy
Posted: 7/10/07 at 8:40pm
I'm trying to catch up on this thread - it's moved so quickly!
It's funny that people think that bit is staged - it never occurred to me that it was, but I could tell by their overreaction that my audience though it was. I don't quite understand why.
Anyway, I don't know that Patti and Christine will be up for the Olivier in the same year - the London GYPSY is not scheduled yet. We don't know when it will happen. But I have had the thought that Christine wouldn't have had a prayer if this had been a full production here this past year.
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