SAM MENDES GYPSY- Page 2

[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#25

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:06pm

As opposed to the people who just say "Mendes' production sucked" over and over? At least I say why I think Laurents' production sucks.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#26

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:13pm

Yeah, but sweetie, when you use the same reason over, and over, and over again, it becomes invisible.

Try something new.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#27

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:20pm

The thing is, that is my reason. I'm sorry it's repetitive, but I don't know how else to say it.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#28

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:23pm

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[TimeSquare3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#29

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:47pm

Dainty June whipping out a cigarette is SO subtle isn't it?

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[ljay889]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#30

Posted: 12/23/08 at 9:48pm

Yeah, that's so not in your face.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#31

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:01pm

Never again do I want to sit through an awful production like that again.

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[PiraguaGuy2]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#32

Posted: 12/23/08 at 10:52pm

It wasn't that bad...it was just ridiculously overdone.

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[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#33

Posted: 12/23/08 at 11:04pm

I'm honestly curious as to why people think the Mendes production was overdone.

[ljay889]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#34

Posted: 12/23/08 at 11:41pm

Maybe he tried too hard to make a concept musical out of a show that isn't a concept musical? lol

[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#35

Posted: 12/24/08 at 12:25am

I personally didn't get any concept musical vibe from it.

[Gypsy9]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#36

Posted: 12/24/08 at 5:22am

Speaking of GYPSY as a concept musical, director and choreographer Jerome Robbins did originally consider that route. He saw GYPSY as a history of vaudeville interconnected with the lives of Rose and her two daughters. He actually held auditions for animal acts, jugglers, and gymnasts. Laurents nixed that idea, except for the wonderful stripers' "You Gotta Have a Gimmick", and Louise's strip scenes. The 1959 production had the tacky, hilarious "Minsky's Salute to Christmas", undone by Laurents in subsequent productions with "Minsky's Garden of Eden" number.

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

[Mattbrain]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#37

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:39pm

"Maybe he tried too hard to make a concept musical out of a show that isn't a concept musical? lol"

I never saw this revival. All I know was that he did it sort of Brechtian style with very little scenery and apparently at one point, Dainty June whipped out a cigarette. Anything else?

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[givesmevoice]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#38

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:41pm

there was a really long boa during The Strip.

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

[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#39

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:45pm

People either love it or hate it. I think you all know where I stand.

[PalJoey]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#40

Posted: 1/14/09 at 9:53pm

Oh for crap's sake.

Oh for crap's sake.

[MadameRoseRules]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#41

Posted: 1/14/09 at 10:26pm

I saw the Mendes production - once. I'm a fan of the show "Gypsy" itself, saw it with Angela Lansbury as a child, and went to innumerable performances of the Tyne Daly and Patti LuPone productions, but I could only sit through the Mendes thing once. To me, it was only interesting on a historical level because they tried to recreate some of the actual costumes from Dainty June's vaudeville act.

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[moljul]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#42

Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:18pm

"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)."

YankeeFan, Bernadette had many concerts scheduled in the fall of 2005 but she did not cancel any of them including the first one, less than 2 weeks after her husband's tragic accident. She did acknowledge it briefly at that concert (I was there), I think mostly because she had to as everyone knew what had happened. When she first walked out on stage that night, the audience applauded like crazy. Everyone was just pulling for her, knowing it was an extremely difficult time for her. It was a very different type of concert than she usually gives but still a glorious performance.

[broadwayboy101]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#43

Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:20pm

Patti did just fine in her own production...

[legally_popular]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#44

Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:30pm

Elphaba3 - Just curious, have you seen Patti's Gypsy live?

[Elphaba3]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#45

Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:37pm

No. Maybe seeing it live would have changed my opinion. Maybe it wouldn't have. Unfortunately I'll never know.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#46

Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:46pm

Are you KIDDING me?!

You have gone on and on in thread after thread putting down this production, and you never even SAW it?!

Give me a break.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[PalJoey]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#47

Posted: 1/15/09 at 12:01am

Oh for crap's sake.

[Broadway Baby 2]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#48

Posted: 1/15/09 at 1:20am

All I have to say is thank you, God, for the blessing that was the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, it was pure perfection.

[binau]

re: SAM MENDES GYPSY#49

Posted: 1/15/09 at 3:11am

What was so good about the 2008 revival besides the cast?

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