Possible Gypsy London Transfer

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:42pm

Go Patti! On Playbill.com today,-> "In addition Patti LuPone is scheduled to play Rose in a City Center presentation of Gypsy directed by Arthur Laurents. It will begin performances July 9 for a limited run through July 29. The official opening night will be July 12. Breglio said there was a "possibility of a West End production after that." With a possible London transfer springs hope for a (too soon, but hell...it's Patti LuPone) Broadway transfer. Hopefully this brings Olivier and Tony Award #2. Any ideas for the possible casting?



and yes, i know this has been discussed to death, just passing it along :)
link Updated On: 4/9/07 at 04:42 PM

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:53pm

What do you mean by Tony Award #2?

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 4:57pm

Sorry for the confusion, I just meant that given her rave reviews at the Ravinia Festival that this may be the performance (if taken to Broadway) that will earn her her 2nd Tony Award.

[JsnWse]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:03pm

What a slap in the face to Bernadette this will be if it Transfers to Broadway.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:06pm

I think it'll transfer to London (making Patti not only the first american actress to win an Oliver, but also the first to win two? Or do I have my facts mixed up?) which is great because it means it'll get a recording, but I doubt it will transfer to Broadway. It's just too soon.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 5:20pm

How would this be a slap in the face to Bernadette Peters? Why are people insisting on creating some kind of backstage drama between Peters and LuPone?
Bernadette Peters already got the chance to play the role she had wanted to play since she was 13 years old on a Broadway stage nonetheless, she got a love-letter from Brantley on the New York Times, never missed a performance after opening night (or maybe one or two), closed the show, got to do the cast recording, performed at the Tonys in a showstopping performance, I mean, why would she be upset that LuPone is playing the role now?

[Weez]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:10pm

If Patti and 'Gypsy' come to London, I am SO going to need to change my undergarments. We Brits may bitch about US transfers clogging up our theatres, but that's only because we're theatre fans therefore feel honour-bound to bitch. How exciting if it's true!

[JsnWse]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:47pm

It's not that we are insisting on a feud between Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone. I said it would be a slap in the face to Bernadette Peters because it would. in 2003 (LESS THAN FOUR YEARS AGO) a production of Gypsy mounted BECAUSE OF THE FACT that Bernadette was interested in Rose. She quoted in many articles that Arthur Laurents told her the only reason to do Gypsy again would be if she was interested in playing Rose. Bernadette opened to sketchy reviews, and was looked down upon for "Not being able to handle" the role of Rose. (Although I thought she was MAGNIFICENT).

If all of a sudden, they decide to put Gypsy back on Broadway just because Patti LuPone is the lead, it will be a slap in the face to Bernadette Peters and her production. Yes, I said HER Production, because it was. Think about it. It would be like erasing everything that was done in 2003 and starting fresh.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:51pm

"It would be like erasing everything that was done in 2003 and starting fresh."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the exact point of a revival?

By your logic, when a show is revived, it's a slap in the face to anyone who has ever performed a role.

[Parks]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 6:56pm

That doesn't make any sense.

Bernadette had her run in the show--now somebody else can try it.

It's not like this never happens. I don't think most actors are bitter when a revival of a show they were previously in opens or when they are replaced in their own show. If actors got upset over that, Broadway would be in one big bitchfight right about now.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 7:21pm

No, I get what she's saying. Bernadette only got a revival because she wanted it SO BAD. She didn't get great reviews and was called miscast. Than Patti LuPone comes in and plays Rose and people are bending over backwards to make sure she plays the role.

I can see why it might be a bit of a slap in the face to Bernadette. But really, I don't care. Bernie isn't Rose, she's gotten to do a lot of things that Patti hasn't, but Patti gets Rose.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 7:40pm

I just think people are trying to create drama where there's none.
Laurents wanted Peters to play Rose, Sondheim said he loved her in the role, Peters wanted to play the role and got to play it. It's the same as saying that it was a slap in the face to Tyne Daly when Peters herself had her revival. Pretty pointless.

[jv92]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 8:29pm

Sondheim and Michael Bennett have the same lawyer?

[JsnWse]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:03pm

IT WAS JUST IN 2003. ITS ONLY 2007. THE ONLY REASON (ACCORDING TO ARTHUR LAURENTS WHO WROTE THE DAMN SHOW) THAT IT WAS REVIVED AGAIN WAS BECAUSE HE WANTED BERNADETTE TO DO IT. SHOWS BARELY GET ONE REVIVAL, LET ALONE 4, LET ALONE ONE 3 YEARS AFTER IT WAS LAST ON BROADWAY.

It's not coming back. I love Patti, and I love Patti in Gypsy - Look at my avatar. But honestly, it would be a slap in the face to Bernadette.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:16pm

I can see why it would be considered a slap in the face to Bernadette. There were rumors a few years ago of her starring in a London production. But if she isn't interested anymore, I don't see why Patti or anyone else shouldn't do it. Regarding Bernadette vs. Patti, I lost a lot of respect for Ms. LuPone a couple years ago when she said this, referring to Ms. Peters:

"She's played my parts. She grabbed the mantle. The Ethel mantle."

Patti has every right to be upset that she didn't get cast, but it's not Bernadette's fault.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:20pm

The subject of her contemporary Bernadette Peters comes up. Peters's last new musical opened 12 years ago.
"Well, she works, though," LuPone says. "She's played my parts. She grabbed the mantle. The Ethel mantle."
In recent seasons Peters has starred in Broadway revivals of "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy," Merman's two biggest successes. Prince says that when he heard "Annie" was being planned, "I called the producers, and I said, 'I think Patti LuPone would be just marvelous -- you didn't ask me and I'm not directing it -- but I know the material.' I didn't know Bernadette had been cast."
For LuPone, all that was tough.
"People compared me to Ethel Merman," she says. "I have that voice. And when I did 'Anything Goes' " -- another Merman show -- "that was the big comparison. And then the two Ethel roles that have gone down the pike have gone to Bernadette."
Ever been jealous of other people?
"Jealous of their opportunities," she says. "Not of people. Of their opportunities. It's heartbreaking when you're sitting at home." Very quietly: "It's really -- a drag. But not jealous of anybody. Because I'm who I am. I'm not that person."

That was completely taken out of context. This is the part of the article that discusses Bernadette.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:22pm

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how it was taken out of context. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 9:24pm

Patti was only saying that the roles she would've been cast in were the Merman roles, and Peters got all of them. Patti says herself in that interview that she's not jealous of Bernadette but, if anything, her opportunities. I don't see how she's saying that it Peter's fault that she's lost the roles.

[jv92]

Posted: 4/9/07 at 10:57pm

What paper or magazine printed that article? I'd like to read more of it.

[Gelfling]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:26am

I'm sorry to interrupt but... WHO CARES?!

it's like the Chenoweth/Menzel drama... not everyone has to be friends and sometimes people you like can't stand each other personally or even professionally so I say again... WHO CARES?!

and now we return to our regular programming...

Patti in London doing Gypsy???? You're only saying that to make me spill my coffee, aren't you? One of those "too good to be true-keeps you on the edge of your seat-nope didn't happen" things, right?

and well... for the record, I saw Bernadette and she was fabulous. I just don't see what's the problem in having people with clearly different personalities and voices do the same part... it's theatre...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 9:59am

"Think about it. It would be like erasing everything that was done in 2003 and starting fresh. "

That might not be a bad idea. Just because someone wants to play a role, especially someone as incompetent as Peters, is no reason for a revival to be produced.

[skingdom]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:08am

G!#$% DAMMIT PEOPLE!

Gypsy is transferring to the feakin west end NOT Broadway...

so all of you Bernadette fans can take the twist out of your panties...


Skingdom out!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 10:09am

"Just because someone wants to play a role, especially someone as incompetent as Peters,"

I for one am quite relieved that you're not a producer.

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 4/11/07 at 12:38pm

Actually I think people were referring to Bernadette because the revival in 2003 was rumored to transfer to London as this one is. Its a honest comparison people.
Gypsy ouuuutttt.