LuPone GYPSY to Lose the LuPone by March 2009 (at the latest)

[EugLoven]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 7:42pm

LuPone and Patinkin are going on a concert-tour beginning March 2009... which means we have our first ball-park (at the latest) date for when she and her show will depart.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120789.html

To all you Manhattannites, grab those May 28 tix soon!
Updated On: 8/27/08 at 07:42 PM

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 7:58pm

actually, there was a video with Riedel a month or so ago and she said she was leaving March 3rd.

Updated On: 8/27/08 at 07:58 PM

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 8:00pm

HA! Their first show is where I went to college.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 10:31pm

i guess that's when it'll close. I just can't see it lasting without LuPone.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 10:46pm

I guess I just always assumed since the show was called PATTI LUPONE GYPSY that it would close once her contract was up... silly me.

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 10:57pm

At the rate the show is going, does anyone know if it will likely recoup by the time her contract ends?

[CarolynaGirl]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:03pm

yeah i knew patti would be gone by March as soon as the Mandy concert dates were announced.
Updated On: 8/27/08 at 11:03 PM

[nealb1]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:10pm

These concerts have been on the books for almost a year. Doesn't mean that she's leaving the show just yet. Perhaps her standby will cover for her? Who knows?

Tickets are only on sale through January 2009. Depending on how the producers of the show work it out, "Gypsy" could go dark on those concert nights. Who knows?
Updated On: 8/27/08 at 11:10 PM

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:18pm

nealb1, it's not just a string of individual concerts. It's a tour that is playing steadily from March through May. The show isn't going dark for three months.

They'll close the show with LuPone.

[nealb1]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:30pm

If you look at the schedule, it's a few days here....a day or 2 there, a week there, with breaks in between, etc. Like I said earlier.....who knows...nobody does.

Once Telecharge opens up ticket sales in March, we'll know what's going on. Time will tell.

Updated On: 8/27/08 at 11:30 PM

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:35pm

There's a reason the tour began booking in March, and it's because LuPone made the decision to leave GYPSY at the end of her contract at that time (and made that decision known to the show's producers quite some time ago.)

The question isn't whether or not she's leaving, but whether or not they'll close the show in March when she does.

[nealb1]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:37pm

Would probably make sense to close the show when she leaves. Granted, she's not a mega draw that Hugh Jackman was in "The Boy From Oz," but she's a superstar, none the less.

Remember when Hugh was on vacation, the show went dark for the entire week. That's unheard of!
Updated On: 8/27/08 at 11:37 PM

[winston89]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:40pm

I would assume that they would close the show with her in it. Besides the fact that the title reads "Patti LuPone Gypsy" as if it all were one word. The show never would have left City Center and moved to Broadway if it wasn't for Patti Playing Mamma Rose. I feel that because this show is so Patti centered, it will close with her in the role as oppose to bringing in someone else to replace her.

Keep in mind that this show was revived around 4 years ago. There was no real need to revive it other then the fact that Patti was going to play Rose. It isn't really selling out because, like I said, it was revived four years ago. Maybe if there was a longer period of time between this production and the last one there might be more people who want to see it. I feel like there are a lot of people out there who have no need to see it because they feel like it was just on Broadway and have no need to see it again.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/27/08 at 11:59pm

Did the actors get paid for the week Hugh Jackman went on vacation?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 12:00am

Oh you never know -- I mean if they were able to get a


REBA MCENTIRE GYPSY or a CATHERINE ZETA JONES GYPSY marquis up there, they could maybe stay open.

Unlikely yes - but impossible?

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:12am

RentBoy86, yes.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:18am

I wonder if they are talking to other names about replacing LuPone. I can't imagine Reba doing another replacement gig or Jones even thinking about it, even if it is GYPSY. Especially after LuPone's performance has been hailed as the performance of the year.

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:21am

Jones would never do it, but the idea of her doing it in ten years makes me wet my pants just a little bit.

[DAME]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:24am

That Bernadette Peters production just ****** everything up for everyone.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:26am

Laurents has already said on the record that he would not allow Catherine Zeta Jones to ever play Rose.

He said he thinks she's "a second banana."

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:28am

Laurents can be such a b*tch sometimes, but I still love him.

[NGD47]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:50am

And here a thought they named her replacement. Perhaps Barbara Streisand, Arthur said he would he would let her do the movie why not on stage.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 1:57am

Streisand would never ever want to do 8 performances a week.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 2:09am

By the time Catherine Zeta Jones is old enough to play Rose Laurents probably won't be around to say no.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 8/28/08 at 3:47am

That's what a will is for, my dear.