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

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 1:53am

www.buckscountyplayhouse.com

I particularly enjoy the roster of past productions including Eve Plumb in SOUTH PACIFIC and Isabelle Sanford in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES.

Heaven.

Updated On: 5/24/05 at 01:53 AM

Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:12am

I thought it was going to be Bonnie Franklin

[neelyohara]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:13am

I honestly thought Joyce DeWitt had fallen off the face of the earth.

Wow.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:15am

omg neely I LOVE your icon!!! aaaaahhhhhh!!!! but, yeah, I wish I could go to this. damn...

[neelyohara]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:24am

Tee hee, thanks CATSNY. Gotta love Lucy and Ethel!

Posted: 5/24/05 at 2:29am

why can't you go cats

edit: or is this sarcasm? It's hard to tell without a wink or a smile...

Updated On: 5/24/05 at 02:29 AM

[Marquise]

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

[jacobtsf]

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.

[PalJoey]

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!

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 8:31am

Curtain up. Light the LIGHTS!

[Marquise]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 8:37am

Yeah and Suzanne Somers is playing "Louise/Gypsy"

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:20am

Yeah, chitownbob and I are all over this - if we can spring from Chicago and get there. Amazing.

[romanov]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:37am

Sing out, DeWitt

What's next........Charo in Sunset Boulevard

[MagicToDo82]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:45am

Or Charo as Maria in the Sound of Music...she DOES play the guitar.

Do Re Mi, Coochie Coochie!

[romanov]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 10:55am

Magic, major LOL.

[joeybiltmore1]

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.

[junglered]

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

Is it true that Don Knotts will be playing the his dream role of Tulsa in this production?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 12:49pm

Janet's in Gypsy?????? I would LOVE to see that!!! Also Adrian Zmed. I loved him in Falsettos.

[doodlenyc]

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

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

[Madame X]

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.

[Gothampc]

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]

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 5/24/05 at 1:37pm

Speaking of GYPSY, I just saw a fantastic show if it at the Derby Dinner Playhouse in Louisville! It was excellent!!!

[vbplayer]

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

She'll be great as Herbie.

[WOSQ]

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?

[TxTwoStep]

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...