Sam Mendes GYPSY Logo/Website?

[binau]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:38am

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can find a high resolution image of the Sam Mendes GYPSY logo?

Or alternatively, did this production have a website? Does anyone know what the URL used to be? (Even though obviously it probably isn't up anymore)

thanks

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 2:49am

Yes, the 2003 Broadway revival of GYPSY did have a fully working flash-website. The address was:

http://www.gypsyonbroadway.com

Of course... it no longer exists.

This photo is not the main logo (with Bernadette's up-stretched arms), but here's a high-resolution photo of the banner at the Shubert Theatre (on the W. 44th Street side) - (cut & paste this link then replace the 'xx' with 'tt' to see the photo):
hxxp://www.town.hull.ma.us/public_documents/hullma_highschclass/Doniger/Slideshowny2003/Images/dsc00352.jpg

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 2:52am

http://web.archive.org/web/20040518153013/http://www.gypsyonbroadway.com/

Only the flash intro seems to have survived from the website.

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 10:52am

LINK !!!!!! :) Updated On: 8/5/09 at 10:52 AM

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:02pm

That intro is cooler than anything the PATTILuPONEgypsy website had (I was always hoping for a wallpaper...oh well).

[binau]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 6:00pm

I really love the "GYPSY" text, wish I could find a small T-Shirt of it or something. Or any merchandise.

Maybe I could try scanning a playbill and use Cafepress, hehe.

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 6:11pm

BroadwayNewYork.com has the CD, Vocal Selections, and a matchbox.

[binau]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:00pm

lol.

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:50pm

That intro is cooler than anything the PATTILuPONEgypsy website had (I was always hoping for a wallpaper...oh well).

No kidding. The LuPone production may have been better (I didn't make it out to either of them so I can't say) but the marketing was atrocious, especially compared to the beautiful ads and signage for the Peters production. The LuPone ads looked careless and unprofessional by comparison.

Updated On: 8/5/09 at 08:50 PM

[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:49am

I saw the LuPone revival and LOVED every minute of it. I've seen the B-roll for the Peters revival, and nothing in that 13 minutes of footage impressed me. A woman I sat by at the show had seen the Peters revival. When I asked her about the show, she said, "If anything, it was cool to see Bernadette Peters live!" I guess if that is all a show leaves with a person...

That being said, I like the Peters artwork and logo better.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 12:53am

Peters has my favorite "Rose's Turn" recording, personally, because of the sheer emotion. I never saw her do the role and think Patti's over all performance was probably stronger overall judging by the entire 2003 cast recording, but I would have liked to have seen it.

[binau]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:38am

Is the "b-roll" the press reel?

I also saw that and was also not impressed, I don't think it does justice to the production or Bernadette.

Now that we're on the topic, what I hate about Laurents' ramblings about the Mendes revival is they apply to his own, if not worse.

He went on about the Mendes production having "no walls" - yet his recent revival also had no walls - he then specifically mentioned a scene that didn't work well with the Mendes 'no walls' concept - and his solution was just to cut it out of his production! (The hotel manager scene - strangely I thought I did recall it in the recent revival but perhaps not). He said he wanted to cut this scene since the Tyne Daly revival - So I think he is partly to blame as a failed collaborator if he knew how too improve it at the time but decided not to!

He also made a massive deal about the brief darkness after the overture while a stagehand puts a card into this thing (I'm such a n00b in that I don't know what it is actually called :P), saying it 'lost the audience'. I can't see how 15 seconds of dim light and (with some suspenseful underscoring anyway) can 'lose an Audience' and It 'did' create some kind of atmosphere, which kind of followed for the scene transitions later - I don't necessarily think the 'concept' (Which I think is kind of like a play within a play I think) was a horrible idea though I can't see it admitting much either. But still.

Another complaint was about the aesthetics of the production, which I thought seemed strange. Since to me, I thought it seemed much more co-ordinated (even if brown) than the high school looking props of the current production.

I don't know if it was the Tony snubbing or Bernadette's exaggerated missed performances (which was only at the very beginning of the run) that has influenced people's opinions, or maybe I'm just completely blind to something, but I personally can't see why it is such of a 'train wreck'.

Maybe someone can enlighten me, hehe.

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 8/6/09 at 1:49am

it wasn't a train wreck, it was wonderful. Some people just didn't like it, simple as that.