Gypsy Rose Lee

[anothervodkastinger2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 2:56pm

Hey Broadway geeks and freaks (myself included) Check out my new blog post all about the queen of the strip tease Miss Gypsy Rose Lee. I am obsessed with her. Always have been, always will be and had a super lucky week as I found 2 Gypsy Rose Lee albums at once. Plus I included tons of Gypsy extra's including the rare take from the Original London Cast of Gypsy, where Angela Lansbury takes the last note of Some People up. Anyways please enjoy!

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Bump it With a Trumpet

[bryan2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 3:18pm

This is great ....every Gypsy fan (freak) should see this
great site !

[anothervodkastinger2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 3:21pm

Thanks so much! my obsession has been re-kindled. I just ordered 2 new Biography's about gypsy off amazon. And I dug out the Roz Russel movie, i am gonna give it another shot. I am older now, mayhaps i will appreciate it more.

[bryan2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 3:54pm

The movie is not that bad in a nostalgic kind of way
You get to see Morgan Brittney as Baby June and then
you get Ann Jillian as Dainty June. It is also fun to see Roz vocal changes in the middle of songs from her voice to Lisa Kirks voice..
.kinda fun for that alone..
The Bette Midler movie is awful seems like a frozen stage show without applause....booooo
I remember watching The Gypsy Rose Lee show when I was little my Mother loved her...

[Almira]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 3:59pm

Has anyone read AMERICAN ROSE?

[anothervodkastinger2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 4:03pm

I totally forgot about Ann Jillian! I agree now that i am watching it again (maybe I should have re-visited before my post opps) there is actually a lot of charm in the way it's shot and the design, very much a musical of its time. And Roz is Roz, I can't help but love her. However this just makes me wanna watch The Women or Auntie Mame.

As for Bette's version i admire that she sang all the songs live on the sound stage, pretty ballsy. But its a hard movie to watch. Who directed that? Cause it kinda seems like Bette did. Had someone told her to pull back and infuse some genuine charm into her Mama Rose she might have succeeded. AH well fingers crossed for Barbra's version...
Bump it With a Trumpet

[anothervodkastinger2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 4:06pm

Almira, I just ordered if off amazon along with Stripping Gypsy by Noralee Frankell. Is it good??

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 4:12pm

DIRTY DANCING film director, the late Emile Ardolino, directed the 1994 CBS TV movie adaptation of GYPSY with Bette Midler.

[Almira]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 4:37pm

I've only read a few chapters. Not terribly well written.

So far, what has struck me is how cruel and ugly the world was for those girls: children with syphillis, Rose's male "friends" fondling June, children performers worked to near death.

The musical is indeed a "fable." It is a Cinderella story.
In a way GYPSY did for Rose Hovac what EVITA (another Cinderella Story)did for Eva Peron. Both were vile people now made likeable by the gloss of musical theatre mythology.

Updated On: 3/4/11 at 04:37 PM

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 5:19pm

Lansbury sounds beautiful in that outtake. Her Some People is a powerhouse.

[anothervodkastinger2]

Posted: 3/4/11 at 5:37pm

I couldn't agree more Clap Yo' Hands. I adore that take, she sounds like perfection. And she hits that last note strong with full vibrato, thrilling. Course I am biased, I do love that Lansbury lady across the board.
Bump it With a Trumpet

[broadwaydanwi]

Posted: 3/5/11 at 1:12pm

Gypsy Rose Lee's "That's Me All Over" and Sandra Church's "Let Me Entertain You" will be released shortly on CD (Sepia Records). If you don't want to order it from their website, it is also available on Amazon.com.
Sepia Records

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 3/5/11 at 2:22pm

First time on CD Sandra Church, the original Gypsy Rose Lee in the 1959 Broadway production of GYPSY, on the same CD with the iconic and legendary Queen of Burlesque! Lee made an LP of naughty songs in 1958 ("That's Me All Over"), and Church recorded an LP of similar material in 1960 ("Let Me Entertain You"). This new CD combines both! From her dazzling rise as a stripper in 1931 until her demise in 1970, Gypsy Rose Lee was one of the most quoted and photographed women of her time. Her fame continues to this day, partly because of the Broadway musical GYPSY. Enormously successful in 1959, it was filmed in 1962 with Natalie Wood and is frequently revived with increasing reverence.