'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus but by Babs herself?- Page 3

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/4/14 at 8:23pm

Maybe Vaseline could be a co-producer.

Updated On: 8/4/14 at 08:23 PM

[Showface]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 9:18am

She looks GREAT in the picture she just posted in Instagram.

[skylight2]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 9:28am

Meryl Streep should just do this. LOL.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 3:09pm

I will NOT "get the hell over it". This will be an utter and complete DISASTER if Barbra does it.

I don't care at all how she "looks". She is 75 and Rose is in her early 30s at the start of the show. She does not have the aura of a 35 year old woman.

Do we actually KNOW for sure that Steve Sondheim gave his blessing? If he did, I'm SHOCKED!

[DAME]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 3:21pm

Breakdown services released a casting notice for this. They are now looking at Tulsa and the boys. Production date is listed as early 2015.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 4:06pm

Is a script attached?

[Jack Hughes]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 4:21pm

Maybe it's being re-written to make Gypsy Louise's grandmother.

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 4:31pm

"Breakdown services released a casting notice for this. They are now looking at Tulsa and the boys. Production date is listed as early 2015."

WOW!!!

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 6:23pm

Saints preserve us.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 8/7/14 at 7:41pm

Here she is singing "Rose's Turn" back in June 2013. It lasts until 1:48 until she sings one her signature songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMrD8Y_lfwM

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 12:53am

DAME- Is there a link to the casting notice?

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 1:12am

Holy crap that video of her singing Rose's Turn stinks on ice! And she's getting the words all wrong.

Oh God, this is really terrible.

Updated On: 8/8/14 at 01:12 AM

[Claudia Draper]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 9:00am

Cell phone video from a live concert.. come on, let's be fair.. She sounds great. The film version will be enhanced and processed to perfection. Count on it. Remember BARBRA thrives on all the naysayers, she loves proving everyone wrong. CASTING.. If it is not Stefanie Germatta, then whom? Jennifer Lawrence? A Broadway person? I like Zac Efron for Tulsa.. Hanks for Herbie? Travolta? John C. Reiley?

Updated On: 8/8/14 at 09:00 AM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 1:17pm

Is that Jennifer Aniston directly behind Ball's right?

[Tag]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 1:38pm

No. That picture was taken at the Oscars in early 1989 when Jennifer Aniston would have only been 20 with barely any credits to her name, let alone an appearance at the Oscars.

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 2:03pm

With the lack of talented singers in movie musicals these days, I'm looking forward to a true singing star coming back to the silver screen in one of the greatest musicals of all time. Babs doesn't have the same voice she did 30 years ago, but the funny part is she still sounds better than most actors who have sung on film. Babs has the dream and the guts. Let her do it.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 2:06pm

I'm not stopping her from doing it (though I wish I could). This will be a disaster of the first order and a very sad end to her career.

What a shame. Ugh.

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 2:12pm

Just stop. You have no idea if it will be a disaster or not. This could definitely work. Besides, it can't be any worse than Madonna playing Evita.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 2:16pm

^"And the moral of the story is: You can teach an old dog new tricks, but you can't teach Madonna to act."

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 2:26pm

I can't wait till this monstrosity comes out to come back here and give y'all a HUGE "I told ya so".

What a shame though. Really.

[vpd1981]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 11:00pm

I can't wait for it. I think it has the potential to be fantastic.

I'm reading a lot about Rose not being 75, etc. She also wasn't a black woman, yet a lot of the same people splitting hairs loved the idea of a black woman playing her. So, where's the line?

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 8/8/14 at 11:22pm

Because "a black woman" can be the mother of a 5 year old. A 75 year old woman can not.

[BobbyBubbi]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 12:56am

Much ado about nothing honestly.

Arthur Laurents said in an interview before his death that "Rose is ageless" and he believed Barbra could do it. That's enough for me.

However the clock is ticking, and I don't think Barbra's GYPSY (along with this mysterious casting notice that seems to have evaporated) has much chance of manifesting.

If it does I'll be pleased, and I along with droves of other theatre queens, will go to see it in the theatre.

[vpd1981]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 7:43am

The rules that people make up to justify their own ideas ... it's enjoyable.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 8/9/14 at 1:33pm

Art Laurents, in his wisdom, withdrew his permission for her to do Gypsy before he died. Now that he's gone the vultures are going ahead.

What a cryin' shame. It isn't how she LOOKS. she simply does not have a aura of a 32 year old woman. Sorry!