SAM MENDES GYPSY

[willrogers2008]

SAM MENDES GYPSY#1

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:21pm

I would like to see Lupone in the brilliant Gypsy concept staging of Sam Mendes.

[Usnavi]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#2

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:25pm

[TheCharleston]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#2

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:28pm

Eerrrr...

[WithoutATrace]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#3

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:29pm

this thread is a waste of space...

[ljay889]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#4

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:29pm

Everyone please ignore this.

[Gypsy9]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#5

Posted: 12/23/08 at 12:51pm

What concept staging? The Sam Mendes GYPSY was lackluster, lifeless, and without much of a concept. It was thoroughly disappointing. And my niece didn't like her only exposure to the show. So there.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

[Dollypop]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#6

Posted: 12/23/08 at 1:34pm

There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[yeah]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#7

Posted: 12/23/08 at 1:37pm

Not really because neither has Bernadette Peters or Tammy Blanchard.

[Smaxie]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#8

Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:30pm

>There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.<

What about The Vertical Hour, which he directed?

And what hasn't been said much is that Laurents hampered or jettisoned just about every directorial idea that Mendes tried to incorporate into the 2003 production.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[PiraguaGuy2]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#9

Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:36pm

ME NO LIKE CHANGE
ME WANT LAURENTS TO DIRECT GYPSY EXACTLY WAY 1959 PRODUCTION WAS DONE
ME NO WANT TO SEE ESTABLISHED DIRECTORS TRY NEW IDEAS AND NEW TAKES ON CLASSIC WORKS

Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

[PalJoey]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#10

Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:41pm

Oh for crap's sake.

[BrodyFosse123]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#11

Posted: 12/23/08 at 2:51pm

Kudos to Mendes for that clever bit having Dainty June whip-out that cigarette and light it after the Miss Cratchitt scene. Seeing her smoking that cigarette in that Dainty June get-up was a visual that spoke volumes about that character.

[Yankeefan007]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#12

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:00pm

Didn't Peters lose her husband towards the end of the run, or was that after it closed?

[ljay889]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#13

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:05pm

I think that was a year or two after the show closed.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#14

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:09pm

Gypsy closed May 30, 2004 and her husband died in a helicopter crash September 26, 2005. I believe she had quite a few concerts scheduled, which she cancelled (obviously).

". . . POP . . ."

[willrogers2008]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#15

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:13pm

PIRAGUAGUY2 IS NOT ALLERGIC TO DUST.LUCKY GUY.

[binau]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#16

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:29pm

"Gypsy closed May 30, 2004 and her husband died in a helicopter crash September 26, 2005. I believe she had quite a few concerts scheduled, which she cancelled (obviously)."

I read on this very forum that she still went ahead with some of the shows. (Although never mentioned it during)

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[bestinshow2]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#17

Posted: 12/23/08 at 3:34pm

Dollypop:

There's something to be said for the fact that Sam Mendes hasn't been on Broadway since that horrendous production.

He directed the "The Vertical Hour" in 2006.

"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"

[GYPSY1527]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#18

Posted: 12/23/08 at 5:53pm

What did we do to deserve this thread?

Happy...Everything! Kaye Thompson

[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#19

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:12pm

I think everything about the Mendes production was brilliant. The current production is like community theatre compared to that one, in my opinion. I guess people don't like subtlety and prefer stuff that's blatantly in your face. That goes for the performances and the production itself.

[TimeSquare3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#20

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:25pm

*Laughs and walks off stage (Ala Laura Benanti). Elphaba3 reaches for Bernadette's TONY, just as Marissa Jaret Winokur steals it away.*

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"The gay one?" -- Marissa Jaret Winokur on the Jonas Brothers.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#21

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:29pm

I guess people don't like subtlety and prefer stuff that's blatantly in your face.

Clearly when you mention subtlety you're referring to the minimal, character-focused Laurents production, and when you mention blatantly in you face you're referring to the overblown Mendes production.

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-Kad

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[ljay889]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#22

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:31pm

Foster, come on. LuPone, Benanti, and Gaines are community theatre actors, what the hell do they know about subtle character focused acting???

[TimeSquare3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#23

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:38pm

Those hacks! I mean the have ONLY seven TONYS between them.

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"The gay one?" -- Marissa Jaret Winokur on the Jonas Brothers.

[givesmevoice]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#24

Posted: 12/23/08 at 8:49pm

you do know Sam Mendes was interested in Patti for his production, don't you?

and Elphaba3, you really need to get a new argument other then preferring subtlety. you've trotted it out a few too many times.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad