#26
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:45pm
It's been awhile since I saw Gypsy, how big of a role is Miss Cratchit?
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#27
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:49pm
Miss Cratchit has one scene, or is it considered two? She's in the audition & office scene. And played right, it's an hilarious role.
Updated On: 1/14/08 at 04:49 PM
#28
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:52pm
MungoGypsy8232, Cratchett is just in those two scenes at Grantzinger's stage/office.
#29
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:54pm
Thanks! I knew it was a cameo role, but when you said combined with Electra that she had a chance for a Tony nomination, I questioned myself. While I hadn't been able to see the Encores production, there's a clip on that site of her performance and it's the best I've ever seen the role performed!
#30
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:55pm
At City Center, I'm pretty sure Cratchett (Cratchitt?) was combined with Mazepppa.
#31
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:56pm
Well they haven't announced Caskey will play Cratchitt too. I think she should. But they had Mazeppa play Cratchitt at CC.
Updated On: 1/14/08 at 04:56 PM
#32
Posted: 1/14/08 at 4:58pm
In the Angela Lansbury production, Mary Louise Wilson played both Miss Cratchitt and Tessie Tura. She was excellent in both roles.
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#33
Posted: 1/14/08 at 5:02pm
Now, MLW I would travel back in time to see!
Keep Maureen Moore FAR from this Gypsy, thank you.
And, finally, going to miss Nancy Opel.
Keep Maureen Moore FAR from this Gypsy, thank you.
And, finally, going to miss Nancy Opel.
Well, I'm glad he got away with it.
#34
Posted: 1/14/08 at 6:41pm
I'm very excited for Lenora, I've known her for years and she is a BLAST to work with and to watch. Also excited for Leigh Ann Larkin, another fellow Pittsburgher.
Rumor has it that Lenora WILL be covering Patti, not so sure about if it's true. If it is, I will fly up at a moment's notice to see Lenora play the role. My mother and I have been fans for years and have said she should play Rose in Pittsburgh. I guess Broadway got her first
I think the only way I'd be excited for Tony as Tulsa would be if he did it shirtless :)
Rumor has it that Lenora WILL be covering Patti, not so sure about if it's true. If it is, I will fly up at a moment's notice to see Lenora play the role. My mother and I have been fans for years and have said she should play Rose in Pittsburgh. I guess Broadway got her first
I think the only way I'd be excited for Tony as Tulsa would be if he did it shirtless :)
#35
Posted: 1/14/08 at 6:55pm
Although it would be a completely different interpretation from LuPone, I'd love to have Maureen Moore understudy her
That would be great.
I'm really glad that most of the cast transferred.
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That would be great.
I'm really glad that most of the cast transferred.
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#36
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:45pm
According to a source, that correctly told me of Nemetz's involvement with the production, she will be the understudy for Rose.
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#37
Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:50pm
While I won't be able to see this again, I'm glad Leigh Ann Larkin is playing June again. She was brilliant.
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#38
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:04am
Even if the production is still seeking a standby, there's no reason why Lenora couldn't cover Rose, despite any casting notices. Jana Robbins (Mazeppa in the Daly revival, and the Buckley/ Papermill production) performed both the Mazeppa track/ first cover Rose, appearing numerous times in both productions.
#39
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:10am
Great news.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#40
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:14am
i like the idea of Maureen Moore
Judy Kaye might take a standby job is she just left touring, its a decent pay to rest after the tour, and you have to possibility to play Mama Rose on B'way.
Judy Kaye might take a standby job is she just left touring, its a decent pay to rest after the tour, and you have to possibility to play Mama Rose on B'way.
#41
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:19am
Judy Kaye is a Tony Award Winner. I know it would be a job, but Ms. Kaye has gotten this far in her career after winning her Tony Award that she hasn't had to take a job as a standby. I doubt she would do that now.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 1/15/08 at 12:19 AM
#42
Posted: 1/15/08 at 12:45am
Her stand-by is Lenora Nemetz.
#43
Posted: 1/15/08 at 6:47am
neddy, Nemetz can't be a standby if she performers another role in the show. If she is indeed the sole cover for Rose, then they just have an understudy.
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Updated On: 1/15/08 at 06:47 AM
#44
Posted: 1/15/08 at 7:15am
Exactly.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#45
Posted: 1/15/08 at 9:32am
This is getting better and better!
#46
Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:29am
Hmm. The person I spoke with said that she is going to be Patti's standby...
#47
Posted: 1/15/08 at 11:45am
Just for the record, and this could be a typo, as I don't have a hardcopy playbill of the Tyne Daly revival: Jana Robbins, while full-time Mazeppa, is listed under the "standbys" section on ibdb.com, not "understudies."
#48
Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:47am
In the Angela Lansbury production, Mary Louise Wilson played both Miss Cratchitt and Tessie Tura. She was excellent in both roles.
Yes
And she too was listed as STANDBY:
Standby: Mary Louise Wilson [Rose]
I posted in another thread about the GG to Gypsy connections:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=941249&boardname=bway
I was just doing a little ibdb.com research and came accross the fact that Mary Louise Wilson was the standby to Angela Lansbury in the 1974 revival of GYPSY.
She played Tessie Tura regularly (which coincidentally, Christine Ebersole played in the GYPSY TV movie with Bette Midler).
Maureen Moore (Christine's u/s in GG) played June in the 1974 production and later went on to understudy Bernadette Peters in the Sam Mendes Revival.
Yes
And she too was listed as STANDBY:
Standby: Mary Louise Wilson [Rose]
I posted in another thread about the GG to Gypsy connections:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=941249&boardname=bway
I was just doing a little ibdb.com research and came accross the fact that Mary Louise Wilson was the standby to Angela Lansbury in the 1974 revival of GYPSY.
She played Tessie Tura regularly (which coincidentally, Christine Ebersole played in the GYPSY TV movie with Bette Midler).
Maureen Moore (Christine's u/s in GG) played June in the 1974 production and later went on to understudy Bernadette Peters in the Sam Mendes Revival.
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