Now that GYPSY's gone...

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 8:40am

Are there any other good shows on Broadway?

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 8:42am

There are good shows on Broadway...just nothing new. lol.

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 8:42am

Nope.

None.

That was it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 8:47am

It's time to stop going to the theater.

No GYPSY. No life. (Unless DOLLY! is revived again!)

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 8:48am

...and I never got to be a Toreadorable.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:41am

Catered Affair gets here in April... :)

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:45am

Seriously after 110, Gypsy and Grey Gardens closing there is nothing that I have a desire to see. I guess I'll wait until Sunday in the Park, In the Heights and Catered Affair.

Updated On: 7/30/07 at 09:45 AM

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:47am

August, as a rule, sucks in New York.

I do want to see The Ritz & Pygmalion in September, but then it's going to be a long wait for SiTP.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:48am

Nothing is left but despair.

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 9:58am

After seeing last night's performance (or should I say last night's EVENT), I am just shaking my head at all the people who insist that this was the definitive GYPSY. Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I simply wasn't bowled over by La LuPone as everyone else seems to have been. She mumbled her dialog (why Arthur Laurents and both the book writer and the director allowed this is beyond me), she raced through her songs as if she was trying to catch the 10:15 to Scarsdale, her over the top gestures were reminiscent of bad 1970's drag queens, and some of the notes she hit were simply quite strange. And what was with the Barbra Streisand 1963 pageboy hairdo? The play takes place in the 1930's. Her hair was thirty years ahead of itself.

I for one, preferred Bernadette Peters, Betty Buckley, Tyne Daly, and Linda Lavin to Patti LuPone. Go ahead and shoot me.

As for the question posed by the original poster, I presume you've already seen A CHORUS LINE, SPELLING BEE, CURTAINS, DROWSY CHAPERONE, WICKED, FROST/NIXON, THE COLOR PURPLE, JERSEY BOYS, and AVENUE Q. I have seen all of these shows and can recommend each of them. Have you had a chance to see two legendary ladies of the American theatre in DEUCE, or one of the greatest actresses of our time in THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING?

And don't forget about Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway as well.

I'd venture to say that there is plenty of theatre out there still left to see.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 10:02am

hushpuppy,

I wouldn't judge this production on last night's performance. As I said in a different thread, there were plenty of other nights were the cast as an ensemble was MUCH more on. Last night seemed to be all about the audience.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 7/30/07 at 10:41am

JERSEY BOYS is good, CURTAINS is good, FROST/NIXON is good...