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#7

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 6:26am

so this is where old tv stars go when there shows get cancelled......

Bucks County Playhouse.

Adrian Zmed ("T.J. Hooker") and Eddie Mekka ("Laverne and Shirley") in Pirates of Penzance.
Erin Gray ("Buck Rogers") in Same Time, Next Year
Loretta Swit ("M*A*S*H") in Love Letters
Joyce DeWitt ("Three's Company") in Gypsy
Peter Scolari ("Bosom Buddies"/"Newhart") in The Sound of Music
#8

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 6:41am

I usher for the mainstage shows at Buck's sister theatre Pocono Playhouse, so I WILL be seeing this.
I also am a actor in Pocono's children theatre so if you come to see Gypsy stop by and see a children's theatre show.
David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel
#9

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 7:52am

We were in New Hope this weekend and saw the poster outside the theatre for Joyce DeWitt as Madame Rose. What a hoot! I've already made plans with friends to go down and see her.

Who knows? She may be brilliant, because what's she's got deep down inside of her, if she ever let it out, there wouldn't be signs big enough! There wouldn't be lights bright enough! Here she is, boys! Here she is, Bucks County! Here's JOYCE!
#16

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 11:12am

DeWitt has continued to appear regularly on stage and has an impressive list of credits. I'm not saying she's gonna be a great Rose, but at least the woman can act. So what if she hasn't been on another 7 season smash since Three's Company? I am always amazed at the scoffing stirred up when someone who had a legitimate, significant success long ago isn't allowed to re-surface without eye-rolling.
And I'll bet Plumb was actually charming - saw her in a play in LA and she was quite good.
To me, the tragedy is that these people have to put up with the usually dreadful production values at Bucks.
#19

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:54pm

Anyone see that video of the soap stars rehearsing Busom Buddies? Scary...were they drunk?
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#20

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:55pm

Darn I thought she was playing Baby June. Regardless, this is possibly one of the funniest things I've ever read on BWW.
"Some of us have it worse, you know, Dana. Some of us are dating lesbian men. Okay? C'mon."
#21

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 1:04pm

I thought at first: she could pull off one of the strippers that do "Gotta Get a Gimmick" But Mama Rose??? [shudder]
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#23

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 1:59pm

She'll be great as Herbie.
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Author Unknown
#24

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 4:20pm

I have been thinking about this thread all day.

I have decided it cannot possibly be true. I mean even if the production happens, it will not be true.

Ain't there no decency left?
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher
#25

re: Please tell me someone is going to see JOYCE DE WITT in GYPSY...

Posted: 5/24/05 at 4:26pm

didn't Scolari also recently appear on B'way in HAIRSPRAY?

it isn't quite fair to hold past sitcom success (or attempts) over the head of somea actors and not others, is it? After all, Tom Hanks was Scolari's co-star. Sure, he's had a great film career since, but he also co-starred with a dog in TURNER & HOOCH and played scenes with a donkey in BACHELOR PARTY.

It's all relative. Joyce deserves jokes on her COMPANY days because the show played to the lowest common denominator, but she also deserves a chance to play Rose as much as any of you deserve a chance to make jokes about it...
Will: They don't give out awards for helping people be gay... unless you count the Tonys. "I guarantee that we'll have tough times. I guarantee that at some point one or both of us will want to get out. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life..."

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