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Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#25Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/17/18 at 11:10pm
Dolly80 said: "Hilarious how everyone’s judging it on a crappy tv version.
ANYONE who actually sat in the theatre watching it live would tell you that Imelda was jawdroppingly brilliant. I’ve never seen a UK audience react like that- as well documented , standing ovations are earnt In the UK not obligatory like in NYC. And what an ovation she got at every performance.
I agree she was brilliant. but I have never seen a performance differ so much from live stage to video. Perhaps Imelda refused to measure her performance for the cameras, so what was thrilling and amazing onstage came off to big and melodramatic on television. Cause she was brilliant onstage...and on TV I found a lot of that same performance embarrassing.
Dolly80
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/11
#26Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 4:02amI agree. I just don’t think stage musicals recorded for tv like this will ever work. They are inherently too over the top, and especially Gypsy. I stand by my opinion that she’s the best Momma Rose I’ve seen in decades though- and I saw LuPone.
#27Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 9:04am
ljay889 said: "Lol, LuPone was anything but camp in Gypsy. She didn’t play a screaming bulldozer from the first scene, like Staunton."
THIS. Patti played the first act of GYPSY like a musical comedy, with high stakes but not high drama, with the bottom falling out at Everything's Coming Up Roses, which is why the number felt showstopping.
Imelda was barrelling through from the beginning, giving Rose no hope and nowhere to go. To be fair, that's been the approach of many before (Bette comes to mind).
Can we agree, though, that GYPSY (like FOLLIES) is a show that is very subjective. I've never heard anyone agree on the "best" anything regarding the productions.
#28Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 9:35am
They were going to bring the production here, but someone ate all the scenery and then they couldn't.
Theatrefanboy1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/15
#29Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 10:32amIn December 2017 she was asked about it in a masterclass and had said she had just received an email from Stephen Sondheim and they had been messaging back and forth because Gypsy is now pushed back a year. According to Her. It’s still on for 2019
#30Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 11:35am
So there's a chance this is still coming to Broadway? Ugh.
Owen22
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/11
#31Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 4:33pm
David10086 said: "So there's a chance this is still coming to Broadway? Ugh."
Don't "ugh" this till you've seen her perform onstage. It's an almost definitive Rose, easily the best since Tyne.
#32Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 5:22pmMust we? So many American actresses I’d rather see take on the role if we have to see another revival.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
#33Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 6:33pm
I'm looking forward to OSCAR THE GROUCH in GYPSY, starring Imelda Staunton.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#34Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 2/18/18 at 8:33pmTyne was a terrible Rose.......
#35Whatever happened to the Imelda Staunton GYPSY revival?
Posted: 9/16/24 at 12:09am
Owen22 said: "Dolly80 said: "Hilarious how everyone’s judging it on a crappy tv version.
ANYONE who actually sat in the theatre watching it live would tell you that Imelda was jawdroppingly brilliant. I’ve never seen a UK audience react like that- as well documented , standing ovations are earnt In the UK not obligatory like in NYC. And what an ovation she got at every performance.
I agree she was brilliant. but I have never seen a performance differ so much from live stage to video. Perhaps Imelda refused to measure her performance for the cameras, so what was thrilling and amazing onstage came off to big and melodramatic on television. Cause she was brilliant onstage...and on TV I found a lot of that same performance embarrassing.
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I just watched it and that makes a lot of sense- she seemed to really overdo it but I'm glad she was better on stage.
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