MARIA FRIEDMAN GYPSY TO TOUR?

Hey, I've heard rumors that the Maria Friedman / Daisy Eagan Gypsy is planning to tour because Bernadette's didn't? Anyone heard anything about that? How would that affect Woman in White? Is that why it's opening in Chicago first and waiting for New York?

Hey I love Gypsy and would love to see it back in town, but, really are either of those names enough to sell a tour?

And this production is completely unrelated to the Broadway version.

I wonder if we could at least get a recording out of it???

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Again, its a regional theater production (granted, its big time regional theater, but regional theater nonetheless), so I highly doubt a recording. They are hesitant to spend money on Broadway shows featuring bigger names than Maria (ie: La Cage, Gary Beach is a bigger name in NYC than Maria), so why would they spend money on that? While yes, it would be great for a recording, its just not going to happen

Do they ever do cast recordings of Regional shows?

The days when every show gets recorded are long over.

A number of factors enter into the decision, including the existing recordins on teh market and how well they sell.

With GYPSY there are already 4 cast albums readily available (Merman/SONY, Lansbury/RCA, Daly/ELEKTRA, and Peters/EMI), plus the movie soundtrack on Rhino and the TV cast album with Bette Midler on Atlantic. A regional production playing a limited run would never get recorded. (There were hopes that Betty Buckley's revival a few years ago would get recorded. Never was.)

These days when major, long-running Broadway recivals don't get recorded there is little hope for small regional productions to get preserved.

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I think that's very true. If it turns out to be a high profile production (which is looks like it already is) I bet that we'll be seeing some long-lasting effect of it. Television or recording, or maybe we'll just all talk about it forever.