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#2

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

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

#4

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

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

i guess that's when it'll close. I just can't see it lasting without LuPone.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#8

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

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

#9

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

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.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#10

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

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

#11

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

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.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#12

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

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

#13

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

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.
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#16

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

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

RentBoy86, yes.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#17

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

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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#20

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

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."
"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)
#25

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

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

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

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