'Gypsy' remake will not be directed by Matthew Warchus but by Babs herself? — Page 5

Wait, is there some reliable source telling us Streisand is now directing again? Or are you just assuming that from the subject line of this thread? Because none of the articles linked here state that to my knowledge.

Lovebwy, I truly believe you are a lovely person. But I'm just one person. So here's my advice, and you can take or it leave it: if you continue to make the same attacking comments in threads, you are going to annoy people. If you attack these people, or proceed to hate everything, you will be labeled a troll. And if you keep doing what you are doing in this thread, you could become the next SueStorm, or Next To Normal Nate. And then you will be ignored. And then you will make another screen name, and even though you try to blend in, everyone will know who you were. I'm not saying you have attacked anyone, but I'm just giving you some advice based on the short time I've been here. I hope you make the right choice, and surely we can talk on better terms about something we both appreciate - perhaps LuPone's incandescent performance in Evita?

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Updated On: 8/9/14 at 08:45 PM

And don't presume to speak for all gay men.

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Streisand will direct and to make everyone happy, Sherri Shepard will play Rose.

Will it happen if we type it ALL IN CAPS?!?

She also sounds GREAT on her duet with Michael Buble. I take back my reservations on Barbra in this role.

Ok, racist. Ok.

Barbra doesn't have the AURA of a 32 year old woman. She can't play Rose. It will be an utter disaster.

I can't WAIT to come back to this very thread and give a big fat "I TOLD YA SO" when this fails!!!

I'd love to know if a script was attached to the Breakdown Services casting notice mentioned earlier, even if they just hired a new screenwriter and Julian Fellowes is off the table.

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The thing is nobody else seems to want to film this. It's not like Barbra wanting to star in this film is stopping some other version from getting made.

I also haven't believed most Roses I've seen onstage as the mother of ten year old girls, if we're being honest. Patti was nearly sixty and didn't look anywhere near 32 (which is the age I see being thrown about here on this thread), and certainly didn't have the "aura" of 32 either. If the performance is good then the audience will suspend their disbelief, if not, then we will have another camp classic to throw on the shelf.

Phyl, we're talking about HISTORY. The real life Mama Rose was no older than 32 when the events of the play start. A woman in her 50's can pull it off. A 75 year old, no so much.

The real Rose Hovick (b. August 31, 1890) was 20 when Louise (b. February 9, 1911) was born and 22 when June (b. November 8, 1912) was born. The girls are 7 and 5, respectively, when the story begins (somebody correct me if I'm wrong), which would make Rose 27. I assume the play ends with Gypsy in her early 20s, making Rose in her early 40s. Thus, she should be no older than 45 at most.

You can get away with casting older on stage, since the audience is generally far away and the lighting helps, but the camera is up close and personal and not as forgiving. The two movie Roses, Russell and Midler, were 54 and 47, respectively. That's still in the ballpark of 45. Streisand is nearly 20 years older than Russell was, and 30 years older than Rose was in the story! Heck, she's a decade older than Rose ever was; she died in 1954 at age 64.

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I don't care how many movie remakes they do of GYPSY. There will always be one definitive Louise/Gypsy for me: NATALIE WOOD.